Trump enables slow genocide of Palestinian people

Just two days into his presidency, Donald Trump has inspired a building boom. Alas, it's not in the US. Israel announced two massive housing settlement projects on Palestinian land they are systematically gobbling up; 566 in East Jerusalem and 2,500 in the West Bank. Israel had put those projects on hold due to rightful pressure from the Obama administration, which included abstaining from the UN Security Council's recent condemnation of Israeli settlements in violation of humanitarian and international law.

Trump's total support for Israel's inhumane treatment of Palestinians' efforts to gain their humanity through statehood was signaled early on as President Elect when he picked David Friedman to be his Israeli Ambassador. Friedman is to the right of extreme right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He's got Trump's blessing to argue these despicable settlements on Palestinian land are legal, that the two state solution is dead, and that the Israeli capitol should be moved to Jerusalem. Such a move would surely create more havoc in the region as the Palestinians also claim Jerusalem as their capitol.

Even the Russians couldn't be happier Trump was elected. When you've got the leader of the so called free world enabling your slow genocide of the Palestinian people, no one could be more ecstatic.