The US has announced that it will issue travel bans for Israeli settlers who violently attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The move, announced Tuesday, 5 December, would mark the first time that a US administration implements individual sanctions on Israeli settlers. It could also mean that Biden worries that Israel is not taking meaningful steps to address the violence by settlers. “I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable,” Biden wrote in a piec…