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<h1 class="reader-title">Rodrigo Duterte, Who Likened Himself to
Hitler, Welcomed in Israel for Arms Deals<br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">September 2, 2018<br>
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<h3 class="op-kicker">The Philippines' President said he
himself would be “happy to slaughter” drug addicts on
the scale of the Nazi leader's Jewish genocide.</h3>
<p>Rodrigo Duterte makes the first visit to Israel by a
president of the Philippines Sunday to shop for weapons
as his detractors point to his previous comments liking
his war on drug addicts to the Nazi genocide of Jewish
people.</p>
<p>Israel sees the four-day tour by Duterte and his top
ministers as a chance to thank Manila for taking in Jews
during the Holocaust and backing the Israeli
independence campaign that followed.</p>
<p>Tourism, labor and defense deals are also on the
agenda, cementing relationships between the Asian power
and Israel, both historical U.S. allies.</p>
<p>Yet Israel's Government Press Office has said most of
the visit will be closed to the media, an apparent
precaution against faux pas by a president whose
two-fisted crime-fighting tactics and rhetoric have
raised hackles at home and abroad.</p>
<p>Some Israeli pundits have recoiled at his planned
attendance at Holocaust commemorations.</p>
<p>In 2016, in a bungled reference to an opponent’s remark
that his rise could be like that of Adolf Hitler,
Duterte said he himself would be “happy to slaughter”
drug addicts on the scale of the Nazi leader's Jewish
genocide.</p>
<p>While Duterte apologized for that, he has been dogged
by accusations from activists that thousands of killings
in his ongoing war on drugs were executions, which he
rejects, and is rebuked by women’s groups for remarks
that make light of rape.</p>
<p>In June, Duterte called God “stupid” and has lashed out
repeatedly at the Catholic church, deeming it
hypocritical. His visit will include sightseeing in
Jerusalem's walled Old City, which houses major
Christian, Jewish and Muslim shrines.</p>
<p>"There's just no knowing what he will say from one
moment to the next, so both sides want to keep this
(Israel) visit as low-key as possible," one official
involved in the planning, and who asked not to be
identified by name or nationality, told Reuters.</p>
<p>Duterte wants to improve security cooperation with
Israel, which has sold the Philippines three radar
systems and 100 armored vehicles, and which Manila is
now eyeing for an aircraft deal. According to Israeli
government data, exports to the Philippines were worth
US$143 million last year.</p>
<p>Duterte arrives in Israel on Sunday and on Wednesday
departs for neighboring Jordan.</p>
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