Because of what happened. Whats been happening in syria as i mentioned. For folks who are less familiar. Whats happened is becoming more active in the socalled sunni triangle of Northern Iraq opposed to the government in baghdad. And they took a foothold. You may recall earlier this year and last year, back in fallujah again and then ramadi, which is in the western part of the country, which is a sunni predominantly sunni area of the country, and now most recently youve seen this rather spectacular attacks starting with mosul. Which was always a troublesome [ inaudible ] chas been charged with his role in the attacks on u. S. Fast tl is in benghazi, libya, on september 11th, 2012. No u. S. Personnel or civilians were injured in this operation which was carried out in close coordination with Law Enforcement personnel. The United States has taken khatallah to a secure location outside libya. He will be brought to the United States to stand trial on a court of law. Secretary hagels proud
Come to israels aid if survival at risk, but use american leverage to get a twostate solution, and we suggest a powerful proisrael lobby would be a good thing if its supporting smarter policies that were in americas and israels interest. We were not saying anything other countrier had not said before. People like george ball, michael, and what we wrote was also exon knowledge inside the beltway. Bill clinton said apack was, quote, better than anyone else lobbying in this town. Politicians as diverse as lee hamilton, chris clollings, barry goldwater, and Newt Gingrich had written or spoken about the power in the past. Even passionate defenders of israel like Jeffrey Goldberg had written proudly about clout. We provoked an extreme reaction, partly because we provided more depails about the lobbys influence, and partly because we were both rather middle of the road boring figures from wellknown universities, partly because we were not left wing, we were not muslim, not arab, not married t
Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organization spends 99 of its money on one effort and only 1 on the other effort, on what basis do we focus on that 1 versus the 99 . That 1 was aimed at us. And isnt that the important thing and it certainly is for americans. We dont Pay Attention to that or that messy stuff going on out there. Al qaeda said was their real objective. And that would replace them with people with the extremist version of sharia law. That is their underlying objective. Attacking america was in a means because they saw
Disaster worldwide. So of course i do not call for any interference in iraq and reject it, even if it is the United States but friends also should provide advice and support and should play a role in order to bring the parties closer together. They should support their friend when they are in trouble. I mean we need weapons. We need political stand. We need an economic support and the United States need iraq to be a stable country to be secure, to be able to produce energy, to be democratic. All these are american and iraqi interests alike. Following the withdrawal of the American Forces we felt that iraq was left on its own while it was not stable yet or balanced enough and was not yet able to completely move towards a transition to a strong state. This is why at this point the center of power is balanced and situation that is something we need today. The United States politically withdrew in the last few years and they started moving or shifting their attention away from iraq but now
Minute as much as possible. We have a gentleman right here. And then he will be next, i think i see your hand next, the lady over here will be second. Theres a lady in the back. With ask the lady in the back. We will ask the lady in the back since i dont think shes had a chance yet. [inaudible conversations] the question is with all the other things on the table, like settlements and resettlement, why is israels Nuclear Weapons on the table . And what israel has between 75 and 400 Nuclear Weapons. That is much more than whats needed to demolish the world and why are we pushing back on that . Why are we only threatening iran which doesnt even have Nuclear Capacity for power. [applause] i would assume if someone wants to go into more detail, there are three words that i think answer that. That maybe someone wants to expand on this. I would just say that its the israelis would never use them responsibly, its a function of defense and deterrence. The historical record shows they had been a