Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he was having second thoughts about pushing through with his trip to Israel and Jordan, with less than a month before the scheduled visits. He cited high expenses as reason, ABS-CBN News reported on Wednesday. A group of human rights activists asked Israeli President Reuven Rivlin not to meet with Duterte. The group, headed by human rights attorney Eitay Mack said in a letter to Rivlin, “Certainly, there is no place for a mass murderer and a person who supports rape, shooting women in their sexual organs and bombing schools to meet with Israel’s president.” In September 2016, Duterte angered Jews worldwide for drawing comparisons between his deadly war on drugs and the holocaust by saying, “Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now there are three million drug addicts [in the Philippines]. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”