Israel Netanyahu on counter-demonstrators: Iran's useful idiots

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his contempt for the protests against Israel's war against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators are on the side of evil, "they are on the side of Hamas, they are on the side of rapists and murderers", Netanyahu said in a speech to both chambers of the US Congress in Washington. Directly addressing demonstrators protesting near the parliament building during his speech, Netanyahu scolded them with regard to the links between Hamas and Iran: "You have officially become useful idiots of Iran."

The Israeli Prime Minister criticized that many demonstrators did not have the slightest idea what they were talking about. "Some of these demonstrators are holding up signs that say 'Gays for Gaza'." They might as well be holding up signs saying "Chickens for KFC", i.e. Kentucky Fried Chicken, he mocked.

Before Netanyahu's speech in the American parliament, numerous demonstrators had gathered around the parliament building in Washington. At a pro-Palestinian rally, speakers called on Joe Biden's US government to completely stop military aid to Israel, among other things. They accused Israel of "genocide" in the Gaza Strip and accused Biden, his deputy Kamala Harris and the top members of the US parliament of participating in it. Numerous Palestine flags were displayed.