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
Or i can send you link. How about your website youre currently editing . Have you experienced interference with that . Sometimes i write freelance, and the problem in ukraine is the art, i dont know, because everything is changing over time, but not so many online media which are still object to we can just mention on the, like maybe my colleagues want to sponsor something. What else . Its like probably ukraine washington post. Question down here in the front. I am from the ukraine but i got my masters here. My question is quite provocative one but i believe youre the right audience to ask it. Lets imagine for a while that referendum is going to happen in crimea very soon, it is legitimate and observers, International Community recognizes that it is free and fair and people vote for joining the russian federation. Would you accept this referendum . And do you think that this might be a solution for current crisis, first to prevent crimea [inaudible] and secondly given the fact that the
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
Who best represents your views the . You can see the numbers on the screen. 202 is the area code you can also get through via social media. You can make a comment on our Facebook Page and on email, 202 737000 journal cspan. O. Through the papers we want to hear from conservatives only. Who best represents your views . Chris christie was one of the featured speakers yesterday. He got a lot of the headlines this morning in the newspapers. Here is the Washington Post that is a little bit from the Washington Post yuriko here is Washington Post. Is usa today and the hill, this is their headline finally, here is the Washington Times take here is a little bit from Chris Christie. We are proudly prolife. That does not mean we are prolife just when that human being is in the womb. We need to be prolife when we leave the room as well. For every step of their lives. We have to be favor of an educational system that is accountable so that child can have a worldclass education. Not one that has thi
Scarlet, i have one thing to say to you. Frankly my dear, i do give a dam. I know all of you give a damn, as do decent people everywhere who reject hypocrisy and lies and cherish integrity and truth. My friend, on behalf of the people of israel, i bring a message from jerusalem, the cradle of our modern civilization. Its a message from the bible. [speaking hebrew] i have put before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life so that you and your offspring may live. Never forget america and israel stand for life. We stand together on the right side of the moral divide. We stand together on the right side of history, so stand tall, stand strong, stand proud. [applause] thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Keep doing a great job. Thank you. [applause] thank you all. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman and as was among tuesdays speakers at the apex conference. He talked about Irans Nuclear program sayi