Friday, January 24, 2025

Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes

from Consortium News

On his first day in office, Donald Trump lifted all sanctions previously placed on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a political move that coincided with a series of violent attacks by Israeli settlers targeting Palestinians that same night.  

While the president has publicly committed to combating violent extremism, extremist settler groups continue to finance their activities through American charities.  

On Monday night, with the backing of the Israeli military, settler groups launched a series of violent assaults on residents in the West Bank. 

The most severe attacks occurred in two villages near Qalqilya, where masked settlers set fires and fired indiscriminately.  Amid the chaos, Israeli soldiers deployed tear gas against villagers attempting to flee, leaving 21 people injured...

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4 comments:

  1. Like i said, won't be long to find out if whitkof is also heading there after that gaza visit, to 'consult' with their owned grocery clerk boy abbas..
    If so, WATCHOUTWATCHOUTWATCHOUT (WWE soundbyte).

    sure enuf, others thinking ahead 2 days from now LEBANON.

    Here's where Will Hizbullah STRIKE ON DAY 61? | Iran’s BACKDOOR To Lebanon | Ceasefire ENDS IN DAYS
    Mahmood OD | محمود عودة
    2.8K views 1 hour ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGdSCZdeKM

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  2. How the bishop who scolded Trump enabled Gaza genocide, with Ali Abunimah
    21minutes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XJfqtKh6PQ
    The Electronic Intifada
    2.1K views 44 minutes ago

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  3. Global is our small, third 'tv network', even tho has presence only in the biggest cities here.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ekNhfvJDM
    7:37
    John Bolton on what Trump might want from Canada
    Global News
    392K views 5 days ago

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  4. Agenda is the same; full speed ahead!

    Top pic here sez it all about Drumpfy & hizz Nutty Buddy.
    Then there's that quote about 2 months ago pre-election Drumpfy openly announcing he would 'recognize' the annexation of the WB same as he did with Golan for his buddy.

    In the West Bank, Trump is giving Netanyahu a free hand to blow up the region
    by tts-admin | Jan 25, 2025 | 0 comments
    https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=302439

    That said, the large-scale ground assault on the West Bank refugee camps was preplanned. But its timing was enough to keep Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far right finance minister and de facto consul general of the occupied West Bank, in the cabinet when he threatened to resign over the ceasefire in Gaza.

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