A group of more than 40 House Democrats introduced the Stop the Settlements Act on Wednesday, which would place sanctions on anyone involved in further settlement expansion in the West Bank or Gaza and ban imports from Israeli settlements.
The bill is another signal of a significant appetite among congressional Democrats to take a hard line toward Israeli settlements and Israeli policy in the West Bank, which would likely be a focus of Democrats…
Driven by Democratic congressmen in the House of Representatives, the initiative seeks to curb the forced displacement of Palestinians and rescue the road to their self-determination.