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US tells Israel it will announce visa ban on violent settlers in coming weeks — officials
(www.timesofisrael.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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Biden could have done this years ago but only waited until now. A policy that won’t have any real teeth. I’m not satisfied.
To add to this, it's farcical because these people are in Netanyahu's cabinet.
The chief of Israel's national police was already on US and Israeli watchlists. He was convicted of terrorism in Israel in 2006. And now he's in charge of the police, and is arming settlers and encouraging them to violently take the land by force. I'm sure telling him that he can't visit the Grand Canyon is going to fix this.
They're probably anonymous because it'd be awkward for Blinken if the culprits have pictures of themselves shaking his hand last weekend.
For those looking for details, Google Itmar Bin Givir and Bezalel Smotrich.
unfortunately it's probably mostly for PR... elections and all.
Why do I get the feeling you'd never be satisfied?
I’d kind of be satisfied with a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with the settlers just the Jewish minority in the new Palestine. They wanted to fuck around. Let them find out.
Obviously, I don’t really think that’s a good idea. The settlements should be dismantled in an orderly fashion and I’m sure plenty of settlers are sweet gay kids who hate their parents and can’t wait to move to Tel Aviv. But it would be pretty satisfying to see those hyper-nationalist parents hoist with their own petard.
Fuck 67, 47 is the one that's fair.
I can't be satisfied!
"Nothing is ever good enough for me"
Well, this is pretty much nothing, so that checks out.
It's about as milquetoast response to actual terrorism and ethnic cleansing as you can get. Years late, no real effect or punishment, won't apply to a relatively large number who are Israeli-US dual-citizens and thus don't need visas, etc.
Edit: Oh and Israel has a visa waiver agreement with the US right now so unless that's suspended it's absolutely useless because nobody even has to apply for a visa from Israel.
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