Question and answers from Ambassador Ron Dermer's #AskDermer Twitter Q&A on July 17, 2014. Ambassador Dermer (@AmbDermer) answered 13 questions from users all over the world on issues including Operation Protective Edge, civilian casualties, Hamas, people of Gaza, the New York Times, hostility towards Israel and Iran.
There were more than 16,500 tweets with the hashtag #AskDermer and the hashtag was trending on Twitter #1 in the United States and #3 worldwide during the Q&A. A recap of his Q&A is below.