The Jerusalem Post reports: “Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Zionists were trying to deliver his country to ‘devils’ in a Saturday Bolivarian Integral Base Committees speech focused on pleading with the US against military escalation in the region.

‘There are those who want to hand this country over to the devils – you know who, right? The far Right Zionists want to hand this country over to the devils,’ said Maduro. ‘Who will prevail? The people of [King] David, the people of God, the people of [Simón] Bolívar, or the imperialist demons?’

Maduro cast the image of Venezuela as King David facing an American Goliath, saying that the king had both faith and God’s blessing.

‘We are the people of David against the Goliaths that we have already defeated in history,’ said Maduro. ‘If God wills it, we will face them.’…”