The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will implement visa bans on Israelis viewed as “extremist settlers” in the West Bank. The policy move follows President Biden’s warning last mont…
The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will implement visa bans on Israelis viewed as “extremist settlers” in the West Bank. The policy move follows President Biden’s warning last mont…
Why not sanctions? The US has been happy to impose individual sanctions in many other cases. Visa bans don’t have significant impacts on people who don’t want or need to travel to the US.
Because sanctions would actually have an impact.
This does nothing, which is the point.
Yeah, it’s a nothingburger to wait out the conflict. There will be a ceasefire soon, settlers will continue to do what they do, but the war will be out of sight of most of the world by then.