Trump has made explicit what has long been implicit: The United States directly enables Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and oppression of the Palestinians. As journalist Ali Abunimah tweeted, the U.S. proclamation that Israeli settlements do not violate international law "is merely a shedding of the fiction that the U.S. has ever opposed Israel's land-theft colonies. It changes nothing but makes clear to all that the U.S. and Israel are partners in crime."
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