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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dan Ben Noah on January 21, 2025, 08:50:34 PM
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That was pretty fast.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/402619
US President Donald Trump on Monday revoked the Biden administration’s Executive Order which applied sanctions on Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
The rescinded orders were part of a mass reversal of Biden-era policies that Trump signed in the hours following his inauguration.
Last February, then-President Joe Biden signed an executive order declaring a national emergency to deal with the "threat posed by the situation in the West Bank, including in particular high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages, and property destruction," imposing sanctions on those who were considered to be involved in such actions.
Last week, days before the end of his term, Biden extended the order declaring a state of emergency in Judea and Samaria by another year, allowing for sanctions to be imposed on residents of the area.
Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, stated during his confirmation hearing last week that the incoming administration plans to end the sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
“Yes,” Rubio replied when asked whether the new administration would overturn the sanctions, before adding, “Without speaking out of turn, I’m confident in saying that President Trump’s administration will continue to be perhaps the most pro-Israel administration in American history.”
The US Senate confirmed Rubio as Secretary of State on Monday, in a unanimous 99-0 vote.
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Indeed very welcome news.
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Unfortunately, Trump forcing the release of hundreds of unrepentant terrorists and re-installing HAMAS there has me wondering if he's going "palaeo" on us. G-d forbid!
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Trump wants to see hostages come home but anticipates Hamas to screw around.
It’s a bad deal and Jews don’t have permission to have 100’s of soldiers to die to save fewer hostages. Nor do we have permission to release murderers who will return to kill more Jews.
Time and time again, the Israeli leadership behave like wimps and our enemies take advantage. Hopefully this deal was a tactical move. Just not seeing the strategy if there is one
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He did one lousy job before he came back to the White House and that was the deal with Hamas. Now, he made up for that with this order in favor of the Hiltop Youth.
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He did one lousy job before he came back to the White House and that was the deal with Hamas. Now, he made up for that with this order in favor of the Hiltop Youth.
The sentiment that I seemed he hear was that a deal needed to be made while some hostages were still alive... Me myself would not make a deal yesterday, today or even tomorrow... However, it seemed "people wanted their people back at any price"
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:usa+israel: :fist:
To begin with, there should never, ever be
‘sanctions’ on the Holy Land of Israel as that
in and of itself is a huge outrage and unholy
shanda! With that said, this case, of course,
Donald Trump did the ‘right’ thing.
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I wish we had a more ruthless leadership that simply said NO. We are going to pay with blood multiple times over for this deal. But you are correct Jews as a public are incapable of consistently acting and thinking only rationally and leave emotions aside.
The sentiment that I seemed he hear was that a deal needed to be made while some hostages were still alive... Me myself would not make a deal yesterday, today or even tomorrow... However, it seemed "people wanted their people back at any price"