{"id":130960,"date":"2014-07-17T17:45:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=130960"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:45:43","slug":"epic-fail-israels-ambassador-us-lambasted-twitter-askdermer-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/epic-fail-israels-ambassador-us-lambasted-twitter-askdermer-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic fail: Israel’s ambassador to US lambasted on Twitter during #AskDermer Q&A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer received fierce backlash on Thursday as he defended his country\u2019s Operation Protective Edge offensive on Gaza during a Twitter Q&A.<\/p>\n

According to the latest Pew Research\u00a0polling<\/a>\u00a0on the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Americans still heavily lean toward sympathizing with Israel. Yet Dermer urged those who oppose Israel’s military actions to ask him any questions so he could clarify his government’s position. So they did, but the result was probably not the one that Dermer expected.<\/p>\n

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Ron Dermer, Ambassador of Israel to the United States (AFP Photo \/ Chris Kleponis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ahmad Enaya<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>@Ahmad_Enaya<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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What response do you expect when you steel my land, destroy my house and kill my kids? #AskDermer<\/a><\/p>\n

3:57 PM – 17 Jul 2014<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Sameer Bhat\u00a0<\/span><\/span>@sameerft<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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After killing so many kids in #Gaza<\/a> can you see into your own child’s eye when you read him bedtime stories? #AskDermer<\/a><\/p>\n

12:22 PM – 17 Jul 2014<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Global Revolution<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>@GlobalRevLive<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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How do justify killing over 200 and injuring roughly 2,000, when 80% of the victims are civilians? #Askdermer<\/a>@ambdermer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2:58 PM – 17 Jul 2014<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Sarah Slamen<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>@VictorianPrude<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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While enacting policies of occupation and ethnic cleansing, does your spine ever shudder with the shame of your ancestors? #AskDermer<\/a><\/p>\n

3:13 PM – 17 Jul 2014<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Israel\u2019s offensive on Gaza that has killed 220 Palestinians as of Wednesday,\u00a080 percent<\/a>\u00a0of which have been civilians, according to the United Nations. Meanwhile, only\u00a0one Israeli<\/a>\u00a0has died as a result of rockets shot into Israel.<\/p>\n

#AskDermer trended worldwide on Thursday, as a significant number of questions related to the\u00a0four Palestinian children killed<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday on a Gaza beach by shelling from Israeli Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

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Occupy Wall Street<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>@OccupyWallStNYC<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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#AskDermer<\/a> what happened when @IDFSpokesperson<\/span><\/a> murdered 4 Palestinian kids in front of a #Gaza<\/a> hotel of journalists http:\/\/<\/span>m.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldvie<\/span>ws\/wp\/2014\/07\/16\/what-happened-when-palestinian-children-were-killed-in-front-of-a-hotel-full-of-journalists\/<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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PMbeers<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>@PMbeers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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Were you very disappointed there happened to be journalists on the scene when you were butchering kids on that beach? #AskDermer<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer received fierce backlash on Thursday as he defended his country\u2019s Operation Protective Edge offensive on Gaza during a Twitter Q&A. According to the latest Pew Research\u00a0polling\u00a0on the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Americans still heavily lean toward sympathizing with Israel. Yet Dermer urged those who oppose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}