Israel is a “cancerous tumor” that will soon be finished off, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told demonstrators holding an annual protest against the existence of the Jewish state on Friday, August 17, Agence France Presse reported. “The nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land.... A new Middle East will definitely be formed. With the grace of God and help of the nations, in the new Middle East there will be no trace of the Americans and Zionists,” he said in a speech in Tehran marking Iran’s Quds Day. State television showed crowds marching in Tehran and other Iranian cities to mark Quds Day, holding up Palestinian flags and pictures of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and banners reading “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”