Someone tell me why this is any of our damned business.
Maybe it's the U.S.' business because 1) Israel is a key ally in the region, and 2) because the U.S. is supposed to be a nation that stands for freedom and justice, not the hypocrisy and double-standards most of the world seems to apply to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Ma'aleh Adumim is a suburb of Jerusalem less than three miles outside the capital. It has 28,000 people in it. To call this a settlement is hypocrisy.