Netanyahu slams "phony" human rights protesters

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took aim at the "phony human rights protesters" opposing Israel, saying they remained silent in the face of atrocities committed by the Iranian government as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday. "Where were you when the Iranian tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians?" he asked of the delegates who had walked out on his speech and demonstrators in the streets of New York. "Did you protest outside the Iranian mission to the U.N.? Did you speak out for that matter, for Christians persecuted in Iran and throughout the Middle East? No, no, you didn't, because you're phony human rights protesters." Prime Minister Netanyahu also predicted that the Iranian people would topple their government one day, saying it was "only a matter of time." "The power of the people will overcome the people in power," he said. "One day, and it may not be far away, the Iranian people will be free. Their murderous