Trump tells Knesset US gave Israel ‘a lot of weapons’; heckled during speech
Trump tells Knesset US gave Israel ‘a lot of weapons’; heckled during speech
M.U.H
13/10/202521
US President Donald Trump faced heckling from two Israeli lawmakers during his address to the Knesset, during which he gave much praise to Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also boasted about supplying lethal American weapons to the regime.
Ofer Cassif and Ayman Odeh, members of Israel’s joint Hadash-Taal party, interrupted Trump’s address to the Knesset with banners demanding the recognition of the Palestinian state. They were both removed from the parliament.
In an X post, Odeh said he was dragged out of the Knesset because he raised “the simplest demand, one that the whole international community agrees on: Recognize the State of Palestine! Recognize the simple truth.”
In a separate post, Odeh said that crowning Netanyahu “through flattery … does not absolve him and his cabinet of the crimes against humanity committed in Gaza.”
Cassif also took to X to call for an end to the Israeli occupation and apartheid and the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying, “Refuse to be occupiers! Resist the government of bloodshed!”
During his speech, Trump said the US has the best weapons, and “we’ve given a lot of them to Israel, frankly.”
“Bibi would call me so many times – can you get me this weapon, that weapon, and some of them I’d never heard of,” he added, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
“But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we,” the US president said, noting, “Israel knew how to use them well.”
Meanwhile, he claimed that Israel has “won all that it can by force of arms.”
Last week, Trump proposed a Gaza ceasefire plan, to which Israel and the Palestinian Hamas resistance group agreed after three days of indirect negotiations in Egypt.
Under the first phase of the deal, which came into effect at noon local time on Friday, Hamas had to free 48 captives — dead and alive — in exchange for the release of roughly 2,000 Palestinian abductees from Israeli jails.
The agreement also includes the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the withdrawal of the occupation forces to an agreed line from the besieged territory.
Analysts say the truce deal represents a defeat for the occupying regime as it failed to meet its "goals" of eliminating Hamas and releasing Israeli captives by force despite killing 67,869 Palestinian, mostly women and children, during its two-year-long genocide in Gaza.
