Netanyahu Speech Interrupted by Heckler
Not everyone loved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
While the elected officials in attendance responded to many of Netanyahu's statements with rapturous applause, the Israeli prime minister had to pause at one point as someone shouted stop Israeli war crimes!
The protestor was later identified as Rae Abileah, a 28-year-old Jewish-American activist who works with the pacifist women's organization CODEPINK. Members of CODEPINK also protested President Obama's keynote address on Sunday at the American Israeli Political Action Committee's annual conference and interrupted Netanyahu during his own address to AIPAC.
Netanyahu managed to weave the heckler's outburst into his address to Congress, noting that you can't have these protests in Tehran and going on to paint Israel as the region's sole bastion of democracy.
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