Trump slaps the sanctions against the Palestinian authority; Prevents managers from traveling to the UN for “the Palestinian state”
President Donald Trump’s administration tasted the sanctions against the Palestinian authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for state research outside an official agreement with Israel, according to US law.
It has been American policy for decades, devoted to the law on peace commitments in the Middle East and other laws, that Palestinians must honor agreements to negotiate with Israel and not pursue unilateral actions.
However, the Palestinian authority has repeatedly broken its agreements by trying to isolate Israel through international institutions and seeking unilateral recognition of the Palestinian State through these same institutions.
This week and last week, France, the United Kingdom and Canada all announced their intention to recognize a Palestinian state in the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York.
President Trump described this recognition as a “reward for terrorism” and threatened to ride by punishing Canada in commercial negotiations. Now his administration also sanctions the Palestinians.
A press release from the State Department said:
The State Department reported to the Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are not in accordance with their commitments under the law on the compliance of the 1989 OLP commitments (PLOCCA) and the law on peace commitments in the middle of the Israel, for example through the International Creal (ICC) and (OCJ), the continuation of supporting terrorism, in particular the incentive and glorification of violence (especially in textbooks), and the supply of payments and benefits to support terrorism to Palestinian terrorists and their families. The United States imposes sanctions which refuse visas to the members of the PLO and the officials of the AP in accordance with article 604 (a) (1) of MEPCA. It is in our national security interests to impose the consequences and to hold the OLP and the AP responsible for not complying with their commitments and to undermine the perspectives of peace.
The result of the prohibition of visas to Palestinian officials is that they will not be able to attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, where the State Declaration was expected.
The Trump administration has already invoked these laws to sanction the Palestinians. In 2018, the first Trump administration closed the OLP offices in Washington for taking Israel to the ICC to The Hague.
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