Rodrigo Duterte, Who Likened Himself to Hitler, Welcomed in Israel for Arms Deals

Source: telesurtv.net






Published 2 September 2018
The Philippines' President said he himself would be “happy to slaughter” drug addicts on the scale of the Nazi leader's Jewish genocide.








Rodrigo Duterte makes the first visit to Israel by a president of the Philippines Sunday to shop for weapons as his detractors point to his previous comments liking his war on drug addicts to the Nazi genocide of Jewish people.

Israel sees the four-day tour by Duterte and his top ministers as a chance to thank Manila for taking in Jews during the Holocaust and backing the Israeli independence campaign that followed.

Tourism, labor and defense deals are also on the agenda, cementing relationships between the Asian power and Israel, both historical U.S. allies.

Yet Israel's Government Press Office has said most of the visit will be closed to the media, an apparent precaution against faux pas by a president whose two-fisted crime-fighting tactics and rhetoric have raised hackles at home and abroad.

Some Israeli pundits have recoiled at his planned attendance at Holocaust commemorations.
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Reuters
by teleSUR / MH



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