How important is Palestinian statehood to the AIPAC faithful? How likely is a confrontation between Obama and the Israel lobby? Answers: Not very important. And, likely. I talked to a dozen AIPAC members last night and this morning and got…
Short, very positive speech from Bibi Netanyahu, by video feed from Israel to the AIPAC policy conference. Seemed just a wee bit groggy, as though jarred from sleep at 3 a.m., but not at all scary. Warm, even fuzzy. The…
Congressman Eliot Engel, addressing a breakout session at his 22d consecutive AIPAC policy conference : You are the key to a safe and secure Israel… There is no more effective lobbying force on Capitol Hill than AIPAC. Bar none. It…
Phil posted yesterday on Jane Harman’s comments at the AIPAC conference yesterday. Here is some video posted by TPM: You can watch the full video on the AIPAC website.
From today’s Harvard Crimson on an appearance by General David Petraeus: Petraeus also noted the importance of reaching out to the enemy in order to help ensure peace. “You can’t kill or capture your way out of an industrial strength…
Whoever leaked the wiretap to CQ, that’s who! So says Zach Roth of TPM; quotes someone saying the Justice Department should investigate. Hey, maybe that case would go to trial…
JPost says I’m wrong, that there is a significant difference between the AIPAC line and the Netanyahu government line: While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is refusing to explicitly endorse a two-state solution to resolve the Palestinian conflict, participants at the…
The big question about AIPAC in the wake of the formation of the Netanyahu government was: Israel has shifted right even as the US has shifted left; would AIPAC, which famously wants no daylight between the United States and the…
Today, Shimon Peres kicked off the AIPAC conference with a special address. Phil noted some observations below. Initial buzz from the speech in and around the conference center is that Peres neglected to mention the need to establish a Palestinian…