Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen (from Maryland) said he is in contact with US President Joe Biden's administration about measures the United States can take to better hold Israel accountable.

"We've had discussions with the Biden administration about some things the United States could do, including reversing some of the actions that the Donald Trump administration took in the last weeks of The Trump administration has blurred the lines between Israel and the West Bank" with regard to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in 2019 that the settlements "do not, in and of themselves, conflict" with international law.

Pompeo also later changed the US traditional position on labeling settlement products, which had always indicated that they were produced in the occupied West Bank, to "Made in Israel", which is also contrary to international law.

The policy on being able to label settlement products as “Made in Israel,” effectively blurring the distinction between goods produced in Israel itself and the West Bank. The potential denunciation of Pompeo's settlement doctrine through word and deed, and a return to past US positions, has been floated as an important step Biden could take to send a message to Israel.

Regarding the position of the US State Department on what Senator Van Hoppen said on CNN, the official spokesperson for the ministry, Vedant Patel, responded by saying: “What I would like to say is that we are, first, communicating with our partners in Congress on a number of issues in terms of It relates to different parts of the world, but I don't have any policy to look at it or any procedure to predict that it's coming down the shaft or anything like that."

The administration of former US President Donald Trump had proposed what it called the "Deal of the Century" on January 28, 2020, which granted Israel the right to confiscate 30% of the occupied West Bank lands, including the Jordan Valley, in addition to taking many steps that legalized settlement. .

In his CNN interview, Van Hollen also welcomed President Biden's rare rebuke of Netanyahu, noting that he was glad "that President Biden has expressed his concerns about what is happening in Israel in an effort to undermine an independent judiciary."

It is noteworthy that Van Hollen, during his questioning of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, indicated, "The Biden administration appears weak due to its failure to hold Israel accountable for provocative steps and policies," publicly challenging the administration to consider the steps it was already willing to take beyond verbal condemnation.