{"id":376793,"date":"2018-09-10T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-netanyahu-extends-hand-of-friendship-to-fascistic-philippines-president-duterte\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:14:39","slug":"israels-netanyahu-extends-hand-of-friendship-to-fascistic-philippines-president-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-netanyahu-extends-hand-of-friendship-to-fascistic-philippines-president-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Netanyahu extends hand of friendship to fascistic Philippines President Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Israel\u2019s Netanyahu extends hand of friendship to fascistic Philippines President Duterte<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jean Shaoul<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 September 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The fascistic president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has completed a four-day visit to Israel, the first-ever visit to the country by a Philippine head of state.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as President Reuven Rivlin and officials from Israel\u2019s military and intelligence agencies. Among his entourage were 46 senior politicians, officials and military and security personnel, as well as a 150-strong delegation of business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The butcher Netanyahu is a fitting host to Duterte, who took office in 2016. \u201cWe remember our friends and that friendship has blossomed over the years and especially over the last few years,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>With Duterte\u2019s visit, Netanyahu has added yet another far-right figure to Israel\u2019s stable of allies.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine president\u2019s visit follows visits by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Azerbaijan\u2019s Ilham Aliyev, not to mention the coterie of far-right figures who attended the opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte began his visit with an address to an audience of Filipinos in Jerusalem, where he defended his earlier remark, \u201cIf there are many beautiful women, there will be many rape cases as well,\u201d as an exercise in \u201cdemocracy and freedom of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking last Monday after his meeting with Netanyahu, Duterte said, \u201cMay we continue to be blessed with a strong relationship,\u201d adding cynically, \u201cWe share the same passion for peace. We share the same passion for human beings.\u201d Then came a pledge of support for Israel\u2019s repression of the Palestinians and its recent military threats against Syria, Iran and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/09\/10\/dute-s10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Israel\u2019s Netanyahu extends hand of friendship to fascistic Philippines President Duterte By Jean Shaoul 10 September 2018 The fascistic president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has completed a four-day visit to Israel, the first-ever visit to the country by a Philippine head of state. Duterte met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376793","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\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}