Netanyahu Said Pro-Palestine Protesters Stand With Evil And Likened "Gays For Gaza" To "Chickens For KFC"
"'Gays for Gaza'. They might as well hold up signs saying 'Chickens for KFC'."
Israeli prime minister has attacked pro-Palestine protesters in a speech defending Israel's genocide in Gaza at the US Congress, saying the demonstrators were choosing to stand with evil.
Entering the US Congress building in Washington to a standing ovation on Wednesday, July 14, Netanyahu framed its war on Gaza as critical not just for Israel but for the broader fight against terrorism and for democratic values worldwide.
He said that the US, Israel and their Arab allies were being confronted by Iran’s axis of terror in “a clash between barbarism and civilization,” saying that America and Israel will win if they stand together.
He went on to attack pro-Palestine protesters, who had gathered outside the Capitol building, saying they were standing with Hamas and rapists and murderers.
"For all we know, Iran is funding the anti-Israel protests," Netanyahu said. "Well, I have a message for these protesters: When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots."
He went onto say protesters carrying signs reading "Gays for Gaza" may as well as be holding signs that read "Chickens for KFC."
He then claimed that protesters chanting "From the River to the Sea" did not know their geography nor history, denying that Israel is a colonialist state.
"Don’t they know that the land of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob prayed, where Isaiah and Jeremiah preached and where David and Solomon ruled?" he said to thunderous applause and another standing ovation. "For nearly 4,000 years, the land of Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people. It’s always been our home; it will always be our home."
In his speech, Netanyahu again accused the International Criminal Court, which is seeking his arrest warrant for war crimes, of anti-Semitism, and claimed that the war in Gaza has “one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatant casualties in the history of urban warfare”, saying that "practically no civilians" have been killed Rafah.
He thanked the US for its support in Israel’s war on Gaza and called on the country to fast track military aid so that Israel can expedite an end to the war and prevent a broader war from breaking out in the Middle East.
Netanyahu then evoked the words of Winston Churchill during World War II, saying “Give us the tools faster, and we’ll finish the job faster.”
He concluded his speech by stressing that Israel will fight until total victory – destroying Hamas’ capabilities, ending its rule in Gaza and bringing all its hostages home.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed more than 39,200 Palestinians in Gaza, and injured at least 90,000 others, mostly women and children.
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