{"id":352936,"date":"2018-03-19T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-envoy-to-israel-attacks-abbas\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:53:00","slug":"presstv-us-envoy-to-israel-attacks-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-envoy-to-israel-attacks-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US envoy to Israel attacks Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US ambassador to Israel David Friedman has lambasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s furious remarks about the Israeli regime\u2019s illegal land grab,<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the so-called Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism conference, the US envoy suggested that reported use of the term \u201cson of a bitch\u201d by Abbas amounts to \u201canti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three young Israelis were murdered over the weekend &#8230; in cold bold by Palestinian terrorist and a reaction from the Palestinian authority was deafening. No condemnation. I pointed that out,&#8221; Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbas (pictured below) had reportedly used the term while decrying the Tel Aviv regime\u2019s expansive policy evident in the continued construction of settler units on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/19\/556012\/US-envoy-to-Israel-attacks-Abbas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US ambassador to Israel David Friedman has lambasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s furious remarks about the Israeli regime\u2019s 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 \u201cson of a bitch\u201d by Abbas amounts to \u201canti-Semitism.\u201d &#8220;Three young Israelis were murdered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}