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Epic fail: Israel’s ambassador to US lambasted on Twitter during #AskDermer Q&A
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer received fierce backlash on Thursday as he defended his country’s Operation Protective Edge offensive on Gaza during a Twitter Q&A.
According to the latest Pew Research polling on 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.
Ron Dermer, Ambassador of Israel to the United States (AFP Photo / Chris Kleponis)
What response do you expect when you steel my land, destroy my house and kill my kids? #AskDermer
After killing so many kids in #Gaza can you see into your own child’s eye when you read him bedtime stories? #AskDermer
How do justify killing over 200 and injuring roughly 2,000, when 80% of the victims are civilians? #Askdermer@ambdermer
While enacting policies of occupation and ethnic cleansing, does your spine ever shudder with the shame of your ancestors? #AskDermer
Israel’s offensive on Gaza that has killed 220 Palestinians as of Wednesday, 80 percent of which have been civilians, according to the United Nations. Meanwhile, only one Israeli has died as a result of rockets shot into Israel.
#AskDermer trended worldwide on Thursday, as a significant number of questions related to the four Palestinian children killed Wednesday on a Gaza beach by shelling from Israeli Defense Forces.
#AskDermer what happened when @IDFSpokesperson murdered 4 Palestinian kids in front of a #Gaza hotel of journalists http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/16/what-happened-when-palestinian-children-were-killed-in-front-of-a-hotel-full-of-journalists/ …
Were you very disappointed there happened to be journalists on the scene when you were butchering kids on that beach? #AskDermer“
Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/epic-fail-israels-ambassador-us-lambasted-twitter-askdermer-qa/
