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Trump Revokes Sanctions on West Bank Settlers Involved in Anti-Palestinian Violence

Among President Donald Trump’s first actions upon taking office was to revoke a January 2024 executive order, numbered 14115, signed by then-President Joe Biden imposing sanctions on West Bank settlers involved in violent acts against Palestinians. “These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom,” the Biden order said. “They also undermine the security of Israel and have the potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across the Middle East, threatening United States personnel and interests.”

The revocation of EO 14115 was included in a long list of revocations Trump ordered on Jan. 20. Trump didn’t comment on it, but the revocation was welcomed among the settlers movement in Israel. “These sanctions were a severe and blatant foreign intervention in Israel’s internal affairs and an unjustified violation of democratic principles and the mutual respect that should guide relations between friendly nations,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and settler leader, wrote on social media, reported Jewish Telegraph Agency.