Duterte apologizes to Jews

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Duterte apologizes to Jews

 

 

MANILA: -- Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday offered a public apology to the Jewish community for his widely condemned remarks last week that drew a parallel between his bloody drug war to Adolf Hitler’s genocide of Jews during the Holocaust.

 

“I apologize profoundly and deeply to Jewish community. There was never any intention on my part to derogate the memory of six million Jews,” said Duterte in a speech in Bacolod City where he joined the annual MassKara festival, The Manila Times Online reported.

 

Duterte explained he was merely reacting to critics comparing him to Hitler and since he was already being likened to the hated Nazi leader, he said, “sure I am Hitler, but the ones I kill are these (drug addicts).”

 

His remarks drew condemnations from Germany, the United States, the World Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, Human Rights Watch and etc.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/duterte-apologizes-jews/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-10-03

[Ulysses G.]

He speaks rather inartfully - reminds me of someone else. 

[Jingthing]

Better to apologize to the families of the people he's murdered. 

[Familyaffairs]

3 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

He speaks rather inartfully - reminds me of someone else. 

My dog's excrement ?

[Familyaffairs]

Dogshit merchant

 

[klauskunkel]

“I apologize profoundly and deeply to Jewish community. There was never any intention on my part to derogate the memory of six million Jews, you sons of bitches," 

[Jingthing]

The function Duterte serves in modern civilization is to make trump look maybe not quite as bad as him. Maybe.

[Ireland32]

This ignorant pig, can piss off...Good Luck with that Pinoys 

[jollyhangmon]

 

Just another populist wunker.

 

Wait, how was that again:

> If it looks like a thug, walks like a thug & talks like a thug ... <

 

Typical case of universal right to vote coming straight back to bite democracy in the ass.

To each its own i'd say ...

 

[Andaman Al]

Well he did one thing that Trump has never done - he apologised.

[bandito]

In my opinion is Duterte doing the right thing. Drug peddlers are the scum of the Earth and should all be exterminated, which he is doing. Have any of you children? Going to school and getting drugs offered?

[yogi100]

I had reason to speak to speak to a Philippino male nurse in a London hospital today and brought up the subject of Duterte and he said he had recently voted for him as had all his friends.

 

He laughed about the bad publicity that Duterte was receiving and said Westerners had no idea of the misery drugs had caused in his country and to his people. And if we rejected him they were quite happy to chum up with China and Putin instead.

 

I've been to Davao where he was mayor and seen first hand how the ordinary folk idolise him.

 

He drives around posing as a taxi driver at night talking to people and getting their slant on things. No Western politician would ever do that! They don't even talk to Joe Bloggs let alone care what he has to say.

[Steely Dan]

Come the moment cometh the man. Like it or not this is the age of the demagogue shooting from the lip if not the hip. Best to take the rough with the smooth and analyze such characters by their actions not their words.


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[Jingthing]

Come the moment cometh the man. Like it or not this is the age of the demagogue shooting from the lip if not the hip. Best to take the rough with the smooth and analyze such characters by their actions not their words.


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Yeah. His actions are he's a mass murderer. Judge away.