Israeli and Jordanian officials were outraged by a Brazilian newspaper’s claim that Israel had attacked King Abdullah’s family. The item published May 21 in a gossip column in O Globo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers, claimed that Israel “decimated the Jordanian king’s family.”
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