By Geller Report | Created at 2024-11-15 13:57:36 | Updated at 2024-11-23 08:38:53
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Today over almost ninety Senators and House members, all Democrats, sent a biased and hostile letter to Biden demanding that he sanction Israeli officials and organizations. They made no mention of Palestinian terrorism or Israel’s security needs.
More and more leaning into full on Nazi.
Citing “settler violence” as if the Jews shouldn’t defend themselves and fight back. The only Jew the left likes is a dead Jew (and even then, not so much.)
88 Democrats urge Biden to sanction Smotrich, Ben Gvir
Unprecedented step has been weighed by US officials as attacks in West Bank continue unabated, but skeptics within administration note move would likely be reversed by Trump
By Jacob Magid, Times of Israel, November 15, 2024:
Eighty-eight Democratic lawmakers have signed onto a letter urging US President Joe Biden to sanction far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich before he departs the White House in January.
Smotrich and Ben Gvir are “driving policies that promote settler violence, weaken the Palestinian Authority, facilitate de facto and de jure annexation, and destabilize the West Bank,” the House and Senate lawmakers argue in a letter sent on October 29 but was not made public until Thursday.
The Biden administration has weighed the unprecedented step in recent months, but has thus far held off on the move, with the president feeling that the US should not be sanctioning officials from a democratic ally, American officials have told The Times of Israel.
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But a move to sanction them would almost certainly be reversed by President-elect Donald Trump and it also comes with significant questions regarding enforcement. If Israel continues to pay the ministerial salaries of Smotrich and Ben Gvir, the government would be exposed to sanctions of its own, which is likely not the administration’s intention, given its support for the US-Israel relationship more broadly.
“Government leaders instigating violence must be subject to US sanctions… With radical officials in the Netanyahu government continuing to enable settler violence and enact annexationist policies, it is clear that further sanctions are urgently needed,” the letter states.
The signatories are largely made up of some of the more progressive Democrats in Congress, but they also include the more moderate Senator Chris Coons of Delaware — a close Biden ally — as well as Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democratic appropriator who, this year, received the endorsement of a PAC affiliated with the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the number-two Democrat in the Senate. Eight Jewish lawmakers are also among the signatories
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