Israeli PM Netanyahu: Abbas Needs to Denounce Massacre in Arabic

IsraelNationalNews.com reports that "Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas needs to denounce the massacre in Itamar when his own people are listening, and not just on an Hebrew-language radio station. Abbas denounced on Monday the massacre of the Fogel family, in an interview on Voice of Israel state-owned radio."

"I heard [Abbas] denouncing the murder at Itamar this morning on the Voice of Israel," Netanyahu said at a Likud faction session. "There is importance in what he said. In my eyes - what is more important, and this is what I meant - that he should say these things on Palestinian radio and not just on Israeli radio."

Netanyahu noted that at about the same time that Abbas denounced the massacre, one of his ministers was heard saying that the murders may have been carried out by "the settlers and the Government of Israel." Tweet