Jonathan Pollard
Jerusalem Post, Feb. 4, 2024
“In the eyes of the Biden Administration, the very existence of Jewish communities beyond the Green Line “threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank.”
President Biden’s February 1st “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank” goes far beyond seizing the assets and barring the entry of settlers who have engaged in illegal activities against Arabs in Judea and Samaria.
The order in fact empowers Secretary of State Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Louise Yellen to act against any Israeli who doesn’t march in lockstep with their delusional program to establish a sovereign Palestinian state.
Take a look at this excerpt from the Executive Order:
Section 1. All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person, including any foreign branch, of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:
(a) any foreign person determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:
(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, any of the following:
(A) actions — including directing, enacting, implementing, enforcing, or failing to enforce policies — that threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank; …
(ii) to be or have been a leader or official of:
(A) an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (a) or (b) of this section related to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or
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