Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune:Palestinian protesters set fires in Gaza Thursday morning and chanted "death to America." The State Department is warning all Americans against nonessential travel to Jerusalem, Israel, or the West Bank until further notice #TrumpResign http://pic.twitter.com/5Dq74yqd6J— Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 7, 2017
Clashes between hundreds of Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops erupted across the West Bank on Thursday while demonstrators in Gaza burned posters of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israeli and U.S. flags.
The leader of the Hamas militant group, which runs Gaza, called for a new armed uprising in a widespread show of anger over Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. In the West Bank, crowds of protesters set tires on fire and hurled stones at anti-riot troops.
In the biblical town of Bethlehem, troops fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse a crowd, in clashes that could cloud the upcoming Christmas celebrations in the town of Jesus' birth. In Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian government, protesters set tires on fire, sending a thick plume of black smoke over the city.
Before any of you start pointing out the obvious, yes I realize that this is a Trump directed distraction to keep us from talking about the Russia investigations.
However this also has devastating real world consequences so we really cannot ignore it.
Trust me I will have plenty to say about the Russian investigations in future posts.
By the way is anybody else deeply troubled by how casually people like Trump will risk the life of hundreds, if not thousands, simply to divert attention away from a potential scandal?
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