He signed an executive order on Thursday, saying violence had reached “intolerable levels”.

The sanctions will block the individuals from accessing all US property and other assets.

Violence in the West Bank has spiked since Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel.

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    This is due to Biden needing to go to Michigan, with its huge arabic population. His campaign people wanted to avoid loud and awkward protests from members of his own party, so they threw a tiny bone that they knew would make a big headline splash.

    I hate to be this cynical, but listening to his campaign managers making the rounds on the political insider podcasts… they are overwhelmingly “professional” and entirely inauthentic.

    Even if biden himself is earnest, this campaign is shaping up to have all the stage managed authenticity of Hillary’s 2016 run.

    I’m worried.

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      Lol if he comes to Michigan he’s just gonna hide himself at the Ford plant where they get a select few line workers to attend his speech so they can post it on social media.

      Dearborn would eat him alive if he so much as so stepped outside the property.

      No one’s gonna buy up this executive order.

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      His 2020 campaign did as well. It was just placed against the previous 4 years. It probably would have been enough for 2024 if this hadn’t happened too. In fact the reason I don’t believe October 7th was an Iranian called shot is because they aren’t dumb and game theory suggests they’d rather have Biden who they use as a political pinata than Trump who will start a war with them within 2 years of taking office.