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Trump Reverses Sanctions on Israelis in Day 1 Executive Order
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 21, 2025 | Andrew Tobin

Posted on 01/21/2025 5:45:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Trump reversed the Biden administration's sanctions on Israelis, suspended new aid for the Palestinians, and withdrew the United States from the U.N. World Health Organization, which Israel has accused of colluding with Hamas. The president also spoke of confronting Iran and normalizing Israeli-Saudi relations—and vowed to bring home the remaining hostages abducted in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Overall, day one of Trump's second term signaled a return to form for the president, whose first administration waged a "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign against Iran, oversaw normalization between Israel and four Arab states, and recognized Israel's claims to Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu led a chorus of Middle Eastern leaders in congratulating Trump on his inauguration.

"I believe that working together again we will raise the U.S.-Israel alliance to even greater heights," Netanyahu said in a video message on Monday. "I'm confident that we will complete the defeat of Iran's terror axis and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity for our region."

"On behalf of the people of Israel, I also want to thank you for your efforts in helping free Israeli hostages," Netanyahu added, referring to Trump's decisive role in a hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that went into effect on Sunday. "I look forward to working with you to return the remaining hostages, to destroy Hamas's military capabilities and end its political rule in Gaza, and to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Gaza; Government; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; Politics/Elections; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: cuba; gaza; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; middleeast; miga; saudiarabia; waronterror; who; yemen

1 posted on 01/21/2025 5:45:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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2 posted on 01/21/2025 5:46:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Gaza would pose very little threat if it were a parking lot.


3 posted on 01/21/2025 5:51:50 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SunkenCiv

Love it.

Bibi and Trump what a combo


4 posted on 01/21/2025 5:52:32 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: SunkenCiv

and one ton bombs should be on the way soon ...


5 posted on 01/21/2025 6:03:31 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

Also a couple hundred D9 Cats, and I think some helicopters.


6 posted on 01/21/2025 6:05:16 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: SunkenCiv
[and withdrew the United States from the U.N. World Health Organization]

unholy Ghebreyesus, Batman!!!

7 posted on 01/21/2025 6:14:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Interesting.

Do you remember when Ronald Reagan was elected President? During that election, there was a funny question:

What is Flat and Black and Glows in the Dark?

Answer: Iran 15 minutes after Reagan is sworn in as President!

Funny, they were quickly released.


8 posted on 01/21/2025 6:33:15 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

I remember seeing that as a political cartoon. One of my all-time favorites!


9 posted on 01/21/2025 6:38:49 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It could make one Helluva great Israeli resort corridor…I bet the Egyptians would be happy with that too, they’d probably invest.


10 posted on 01/21/2025 6:39:46 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: dayglored

It worked.


11 posted on 01/21/2025 6:49:02 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: SunkenCiv; FRiends

“[President]Trump reversed the Biden administration’s sanctions on Israelis, suspended new aid for the Palestinians, and withdrew the United States from the U.N. World Health Organization...”

And that’s just DAY ONE! MAGA! Happy as a pig in slop here in the Heartland! :)


12 posted on 01/21/2025 6:57:57 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I’d love to see them together visiting other countries that are moving to the right and start building on a global level.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 7:17:42 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Wow.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 8:31:54 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
I bet the Egyptians would be happy with that too, they’d probably invest.

Interesting take. You're not wrong there.

15 posted on 01/21/2025 10:09:36 PM PST by onona
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To: SunkenCiv

“ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.”

Show of hands, who here does not know that the ONLY way that happens is for Gaza to be free of all “Palestinians”?

Israel should annex all lands they are forced to take in battle, to prevent further attacks.
Send the Pali’s to Iran, they bought control over them, they should have to live with them.


16 posted on 01/22/2025 12:05:05 AM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: Ex gun maker.
That's the long game. Israel doesn't come out and say it, but prosperity, population growth, construction, and economic development (real, not five year plan fakery) will eventually crowd out all the Arab squatters.

They were introduced mostly by the inherently racist Hashemite Kdm of Jordan when it 'cleansed' its own territory along with eastern Jerusalem and the so-called West Bank of all Jews.

The abandoned "Line" project in Saudi Arabia was, I suspect, an attempt to create a covered-mall habitat for Arabs from from all over the Middle East. In its way it was intended to leapfrog development (a strategy that has always failed miserably in the 3rd world) of a population and lead to a long period of truce, leading to peace.

Hatred of Jews is easy to identify, it displays itself in behavior -- people and orgs that support jihad (dressed up as "development" or "humanitarian assistance" or "eduction") in Gaza, Judah and Samaria, Lebanon, etc, and those POS are not all in Iran. They're found in the UN, Asia, Europe, the US, every country with a muzzie population...

17 posted on 01/22/2025 12:16:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Trump has become the glorious hammer of God.

May he remain humble.


18 posted on 01/22/2025 6:24:24 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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