As though President Biden hasn't taken enough actions to offer aid and comfort to America's enemies already, now he is reportedly to issue an executive order (EO) threatening Israeli citizens who have settled in the West Bank.

President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been attacking Palestinianns in the occupied territory, according to four people familiar with the matter.

A senior administration official, who like the others was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the White House was expected to announce the order later Thursday.

The order comes with Biden facing growing criticism for his administration’s strong support of Israel as casualties mount in the Israel-Hamas war. The move is rare step against America’s closest ally in the Mideast whom Biden says has the right to defend itself. But the Democratic president has pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to show greater restraint in its military operations aimed at rooting out Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza and struck Israel on Oct. 7.

This action comes at a time when Biden is being criticized in some key electoral states over his support for Israel.

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As to what the order is expected to achieve:

The order will give the Treasury Department the authority to impose financial sanctions on settlers, but is not meant to target U.S. citizens. A substantial number of the settlers in the West Bank hold U.S. citizenship.

Attacks by Israeli settlers have intensified since the war started, and some Palestinians have been killed, according to Palestinian authorities. Rights groups say settlers have torched cars and attacked several small Bedouin communities, forcing evacuations to other areas.

This statement raises some questions: What attacks? Where? What "rights groups" are saying these things? And why is the Biden administration focusing American policy on sanctions here?

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It seems cynical to say so, but this move may be meant to shore up some of the president's sagging poll numbers in places like Michigan.

The new executive order comes as Biden was set to visit Michigan on Thursday to rally support from union members in a key presidential battleground state. The Democratic president has faced sharp criticism from Arab and Muslim leaders over his handling of the war with Hamas, and the shadow of the conflict has some Democrats worrying that it could have a major effect on the outcome in the November election.

The president’s campaign team has already seen alarming signs of the growing rift with Michigan’s Arab American community.

Ah hah.

"Wag the dog" exercises are hardly new in politics. President Bill Clinton was famously accused of fomenting such a move to distract from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. (The use of the term actually goes back as far as 1871.) But this, if the president does indeed sign this EO, is aimed not at enemies of the United States but at an internal policy of the country that is our best ally in the Middle East. It would appear to be based on some nebulous reports of "attacks," for which a cursory Web search is unable to find any reliable source.

Joe Biden — or, should I say, the people who are managing his campaign — are getting worried. This EO proposal is likely a trial balloon; it's hard to see what kind of order could arise from the information provided, how that EO would work, or what kind of sanctions could be applied and to whom they would apply. This is pandering, pure and simple, to a constituency that the Biden campaign is seeing slip away.