US ambassador to Israel David Friedman has lambasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s furious remarks about the Israeli regime’s illegal land grab,
Speaking at the so-called Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism conference, the US envoy suggested that reported use of the term “son of a bitch” by Abbas amounts to “anti-Semitism.”
“Three young Israelis were murdered over the weekend … in cold bold by Palestinian terrorist and a reaction from the Palestinian authority was deafening. No condemnation. I pointed that out,” Friedman said.
“Abu Mazen [Abbas] chose to respond. While [Ronald Lauder] speaking, I saw his response on my iPhone. His response was to refer to me as son of a dog. Is that anti-Semitism or political discourse? I leave that up to you.”
Abbas (pictured below) had reportedly used the term while decrying the Tel Aviv regime’s expansive policy evident in the continued construction of settler units on…