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US ambassador to Israel David Friedman is a 'son of a dog': Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas

Agence France-Presse • March 20, 2018, 18:09:00 IST
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas labelled the US ambassador to Israel David Friedman a “son of a dog” during an attack on Donald Trump’s policies

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US ambassador to Israel David Friedman is a 'son of a dog': Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas labelled the US ambassador to Israel David Friedman a “son of a dog” on Monday during an attack on Donald Trump’s policies. The scathing comments come with US president Trump still expected to launch a plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians despite Abbas boycotting his administration over his controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “The US ambassador in Tel Aviv is a settler and a son of a dog,” Abbas said in comments to Palestinian leaders in Ramallah. [caption id=“attachment_1627075” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![File image of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. AFP](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MahmudAbbasReuters.jpg) File image of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. AFP[/caption] The White House later Monday slammed Abbas’s “insults”, saying he must choose between hate and peace. “The time has come for president Abbas to choose between hateful rhetoric and concrete and practical efforts to improve the quality of life of his people and lead them to peace and prosperity,” top Trump aide Jason Greenblatt said in a terse statement Relations between Abbas’s government and Trump’s administration have broken down since the White House recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December. The Palestinians also see the disputed city as the capital of their future state and have refused to meet with Trump’s envoys since. Friedman, who was Trump’s personal lawyer before being appointed last year, is a longstanding supporter of settlement building in the occupied West Bank, considered illegal under international law. In response to Abbas, Friedman, who is Jewish, told a conference that Abbas’s comments could have anti-Semitic connotations. “His response was to refer to me as the son of a dog. Is that anti-Semitism or political discourse? I leave that up to you,” he said, according to a US embassy spokeswoman. Abbas’s comments appeared to be in response to a tweet by Friedman earlier on Monday. In it he referred to an attack in the West Bank as “in the north”, raising questions over whether he views it as part of Israeli territory, and accused Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) of failing to condemn it. “Such brutality and no condemnation from the PA!” he tweeted, referring to a Friday car ramming that killed two soldiers and a Sunday stabbing in Jerusalem that left an Israeli dead, both carried out by Palestinians.

Tragedy in Israel. 2 young soldiers, Netanel Kahalani and Ziv Daos, murdered in the North, and father of 4, Adiel Kolman, murdered in Jerusalem, by Palestinian terrorists. Such brutality and no condemnation from the PA! I pray for the families and the wounded – so much sadness.

— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@USAmbIsrael) March 19, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later denounced Abbas’s remarks on Twitter. “For the first time in decades, the US administration has stopped pampering Palestinian leaders and tells them ’that’s enough’. Apparently, the shock of the truth has caused them to lose their mind,” he said.

Abu Mazen's verbal attack on U.S. Ambassador David Friedman says it all. For the first time in decades, the U.S. administration has stopped spoiling the Palestinian leaders and tells them: enough is enough. Apparently the shock of the truth has caused them to lose it.

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 19, 2018
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Israel has militarily occupied the West Bank and east Jerusalem since 1967. Abbas’s government has limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank, while the Jewish state annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the international community. All countries currently have their embassies in Tel Aviv and view the future status of Jerusalem as a matter to be negotiated between the parties. But in December Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and in May Friedman will become the first US ambassador in the city as the embassy is moved. Bomb attack Separately during the speech, Abbas accused rival Palestinian faction Hamas of a bomb attack targeting his prime minister Rami Hamdallah last week and threatened fresh sanctions against the Islamist movement. Abbas had previously said Hamas was responsible as it controls security in the Palestinian enclave, but Monday evening said it was “behind the attack”. Hamdallah was uninjured in last Tuesday’s attack, which saw a roadside bomb explode as his convoy entered Gaza in what Palestinian officials have called an assassination attempt. Six of his security guards were lightly hurt. In the speech to Palestinian leaders in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas said if the attack had succeeded it would have “opened the way for a bloody civil war”. Hamas condemned what it called Abbas’s “provocative positions,” saying its security services were still investigating the explosion. The Islamists and Abbas’s secular party Fatah have been at odds since 2007 when Hamas seized control of Gaza in a near civil war. Abbas controls the internationally recognised Palestinian government, based in the occupied West Bank which Hamdallah leads. Abbas has previously taken a series of measures, including reducing electricity payments for Gaza’s two million residents, in what analysts said was an attempt to punish Hamas. Hamas and Fatah agreed on a reconciliation agreement in October but it has collapsed.

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