NPR: Israel's Right Wing Expects Boost From A Trump Presidency

strange story, from this morning:
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December 12, 20164:21 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
DANIEL ESTRIN


Israeli activists who lobbied Israeli-Americans to vote for Donald Trump gather around a boardroom table to celebrate his victory. Israel's right wing anticipates that a Trump administration will not pressure Israel regarding settlements.

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A guest of honor at the boardroom party was Yossi Dagan, the leader of the Shomron Regional Council, an Israeli settlement council in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

"I think the last eight years... have been a catastrophe," he told the gathering, referring to pressures placed on settlement building during Obama's tenure.

For years, the U.S. has criticized Israeli settlement construction in lands where the Palestinians want to establish an independent state, calling it "corrosive to the cause of peace."

But Dagan, the settler leader, expects Trump to take a different approach: one that does not pressure Israel regarding settlements.

more: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/12/504428491/israels-right-wing-expects-boost-from-a-trump-presidency