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the announced target of these sanctions sends an undeniable message that the U.S. is circling the two ministers, widely viewed as the impetus for much of the current unrest in Israel.
It is impossible to separate these sanctions – or any previous round of sanctions, for that matter – from the ongoing internal debate within the U.S. government on whether it should expand its already unprecedented sanctions regime to include Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Jack Kirby directly called out Smotrich for potentially compromising efforts to release the hostages, saying his rhetoric “would in fact sacrifice the lives of Israeli hostages – his own countrymen, and American hostages as well – and flies in the face of the national security interests of Israel at this critical stage of the war.”
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