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we offer complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we are c-span, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and added by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd. like this on facebook. and follow us on twitter. blockedweek, the senate president obama's nominee to lead the justice department civil rights division. it was the first time the senate has voted down denominations democrats changed the filibuster rules last november. here is texas senator ted cruz talking about his opposition to the nomination of followed by tom harkin after the measure was defeated. the comments are about 20 minutes. >> mr. president, i rise today to a tribute to the minute women of the country serving as lease officers who protect law-abiding americans. it is out of this respect for our nations lease officers that i also rise to oppose the

adebola.n of dabo remember our phone police officers who have bravely given their lives to serve our nation and kept us in police officers helped form the back of our country that supports the rule all. they risk their lives everyday to keep law-abiding americans safe. 2012,ing to the fbi, in 95 law enforcement officers were killed in line of duty incidents. officers were victims of line of duty assaults. 52,901. the new york times in 2012 as violent crimes have increased across the

country, a disturbing trend has emerged. rising numbers of police officers being killed." in 2008, 41 officers were killed. 41. in 2009, 40 officers were killed. in 2010, 56 officers were killed. in 2011, 72 officers were killed. and in 2012, 95 officers were killed. unfortunately, as byron york noted today, the new york times has not reported on the theroversial nomination of head of the civil rights division. it is out of respect for all of our nations lease officers that i rise to oppose this nomination. his leadership and supervision, the illegal defense

thebrazenly politicized murder of a philadelphia police officer, officer daniel alter. on december 9, 1981, 25-year-old officer faulkner was murdered by wesley cook, who is widely known as mumia abu-jamal. the officer was shot several times. the fatal shot was when the gun was pointed inches from the officer's face and pulled the trigger. during the trial, it was made known that abu-jamal is a supporter of the move organization, an anarchist group that explicitly advocate for violence against police officers. in a letter to the senate judiciary committee, mrs. faulkner described described that, during the trial and her has and splits they sure -- her

husband's bloodstained shirt was held for the jury, abu-jamal turned in his chair and smirked at her, the reading. the jury convened for a matter of hours before they came back with a dual tapered and a death sentence. that was 1982. fast forward 27 years to the year 2009. timenominee was at the director of litigation at the naacp. in 2009, the legal defense fund began advocating for abu-jamal. advocates and then as cocounsel. to be clear, mr. president, every little defendant is entitled to an attorney. jamaal representation of was fewer advocacy. -- whosteel was not

thatl's field was not question. the consistency in front of three witnesses that he hoped died.fficer faulkner there was significant ballistic and forensic evidence. the murder weapon was registered oo add who jamaal and -- t abu-jamaal. his attorneys had filed decades of posttrial appeals delaying the carrying out of his sentence. under the nominee's supervision, they portray mumia abu-jamal an unrepentant cop prisoner.a political " 2011, a press release said,

abu-jamal is widely viewed as a symbol of the racial injustices of the death penalty." that press release also said "the death sentence and conviction are relics of a time when police abuse and racial discrimination." lawyers under the nominee's supervision went further than that. they held rallies and protests. this is advocacy. this is political advocacy. this is extreme and radical advocacy. this is not legal representation. he even went so far to travel to france to hold multiple rallies .or abu-jamal the french had already named a street after him in a suburb of paris. this prompted the house of representatives in 2006 to vote

368-31 to condemn the murder of officer daniel faulkner and to urge the frenchtown to change that street name. after fanning those flames of racial tension in the court of public opinion, the nominee pressed aggressive arguments on law.in our courts of thankfully, the state and federal courts rejected those arguments. under -- they argued that abu-jamal's death sentence because heverturned believes there should have been more african-americans on his jury. during a senate confirmation on january 8, he said that the lds filed a brief regarding jury instructions about the death penalty. they did make those arguments initially. but his initial items and

nothing to do with jury instructions. they were our givens that his jury was unconstitutional because it did not have a sufficient number of african-americans serving on the jury, he said. the court rejected those arguments. the court that convicted abu-jamal. it had two african-american serving on it. there would have been a third, but the attorneys were ordered to strike that person. the order of police vehemently opposes this nomination. according to a letter written by , thisesident of the fop nomination only exacerbates the "growing division and distrust towards local law enforcement agencies." a trend that has continued now from the time that perez was leading the department of justice civil rights committee.

wrote "responsible people should agree that going out of your way to defend a convicted cop killer long after it has become unequivocally clear that he was guilty and had suffered no violation of his civil rights disqualifies one from serving as the head of a division of the u.s. department of justice." the obama administration's message with the nomination is clear. it wants even more for the politicizationre of the department of justice. esther president, this is in full -- this is insulting to law enforcement officers. i stand with the fraternal order of police and oppose this nomination. and i urge my democratic colleagues to join the democratic senior senator from pennsylvania, senator bob casey, and vote no on this nomination.

this is not a matter of left wing or right wing. that violent agree criminals should be punished. and we all should agree that those who go out of their way to advocate for, to celebrate, to lionize, convicted cop killers are not suitable for major leadership roles at the u.s. department of justice. mr. president, i urge every member of this body to oppose the nomination. i yield the floor. today, a vote was taken in the united states senatorhat to the marked about the lowest point that i think this senate has descended into in my 30 years

here. . i was here during the impeachment process, trial for president clinton. i kind of thought that was a sham. but that didn't compare to what happened today. the vote on debo adegbile to be assistant attorney general for civil rights sent a strong message. here's the message we sent tod today. you young people, listen you. -- you young people, listen up. if you are a young white person and you go to work for a law firm. you're a lawyer, sworn in to the ball, you go to work for a law firm. you're a white person. and that law firm defends you to a pro bono case to defend someone who killed eight people in cold blood and they assign you to defend that person.

my advice from this, what happened today, is you should do that. it's part of your legal obligation, part of your profession. because if you do that, who knows, you might wind up to be the chief justice of the united states supreme court. however, if you are a young black person and you go to work for the naacp legal defense fund and they assign you under your obligations as an attorney, in keeping with your oath of office, they assign you to appeal a case of someone who committed a heinous murder and you do that and you sign your name on the appeal -- not that

you're defending this person, you've never done that, but they've asked you to sign on an appeal and you do that. and you're asked to do that. if you're a young black person, you work for the naacp legal defense fund and you're asked to sign an appeal for someone convicted of murder. what the message said today is don't do it. don't do it. because you know what? if you do that, in keeping with your legal obligations and your profession, you will be denied by the u.s. senate from being attorney in the u.s. department of justice. i guess what i'm saying is we sent a message we have a double standard, a terrible double standard. the chief justice of the supreme court defended a mass murderer in nor florida, committed eight murders --

mass murderer in florida, committed eight murders. he's the chief justice of the supreme court. did we hear one peep from the republican side, from anyone? no one on this senate floor at that time ever raised that as any issue at all for his qualifications to be a judge on the appeals court or to be the chief justice of the supreme court. and rightfully so. it should never have been an issue. he was fulfilling his legal obligations. yes, his moral duty, aside from his legal duty. but debo adegbile, working as an attorney for the naacp legal defense fund, he wasn't even asked to defend a murderer. he was just asked to join on an appeal, to sign an appeal on a technicality and he did. and because of that -- and only because of that -- he was excoriated here on the senate

floor and denied -- denied -- his opportunity to be an assistant attorney general for civil rights. did anyone raise an issue of his qualifications? no. he's eminently qualified. put person after person talked about the heinous murder that took place in philadelphia, the murder of a police officer by yet another -- by a young black man who had bragged about it, a heinous crime, horrible crime. debo adegbile didn't defend him, didn't even know this guy and yet -- and yet i listened to the senator from pennsylvania this morning, had a big poster here with a picture of the police officer and his wife on their wedding day, talking about how horrible a crime this was, how the murderer had bragged about

it and all that. terrible stuff. had nothing to do with debo adegbile, but the senator from pennsylvania said, that's why he should not be approved to be an assistant attorney general, because he signed an appeal. what about that guy sitting over there, the chief justice of the supreme court, defended a person who killed eight people? maybe we should institute a -- an impeachment process? maybe that's what we ought to do. let's -- maybe my friends on the republican side did not know this about john roberts, that he had defended a mass murderer. maybe that's what we've got to do, bring up an impeachment process. let's impeach the chief justice because he had fulfilled his legal obligation to defend a murderer. well, i hope that you see the ridiculousness of that argument.

and how unfair it was for debo adegbile to be denied this not only basis of any qualifications. i've not heard one person say he's unqualified or that he's done something -- something that was disqualify him. no. he did what he was supposed to do within his legal profession and denied. shame, shame on this senate. shame on every senator who claims to be a lawyer, who went to law school, raised their hand and sworn into the bar. shame on every lawyer who voted against mr. adegbile because of what he did on that appeal. because of the fact that he had signed on the appeal. now, if somebody had some question about his

qualifications, that he's totally unqualified for this, that's a different story. that's a different story. i challenge anyone to come forward with anything remotel remotely -- remotely -- connected to his qualifications that would show him disqualified. let me read -- and i'll close shortly -- a quote from james soken, the president of the american bar association. listen up, lawyers. quote -- "a fundamental tenet of our justice system and our constitution is that anyone who faces loss of liberty has a right to legal counsel. lawyers have an ethical obligation to uphold that principle and provide zealous representation to people who otherwise would stand alone against the power and resources of the government. even to those accused or convicted of terrible crimes. i was alarmed to learn that

there is some opposition to mr. adegbile's nomination based solely on his efforts to protect the fundamental rights of an unpopular client while working at the legal defense fund. his work, like the work of a.b.a. members who provide thousands of hours of pro bono legal services every year, is consistent with the finest tradition of this country's legal profession and should be commended, not condemned." shameful. shameful vote today. a rush to judgment based upon emotion. based upon emotion. i will not name any names but i had one senator say, my head tells me that -- that he should be confirmed but my guts, my emotions say no. we make our decisions based on that around here? god help us. god help us. maybe -- maybe we ought to all

go back and watch that movie again, "to kill a mockingbird." read the book, watch the movie. and know what it is to stand up against the powers of the government and defend someone who's unpopular. hm. and mr. adegbile didn't even do that. he was not the defense attorney. he was only on an appeal. so shame on the fraternal order of police. shame on them. and i've been one of their strong supporters for my 30 years here, but shame on them for doing this. shame on them. they mounted a campaign against mr. adegbile just on that one thing. shame on all of us here, especially the lawyers, especially the lawyers. well, it was a rush to judgment, a shameful episode in the history of the united states senate.

i know that senator reid filed a motion to reconsider. i hope we will. and i hope people will pray on this and think back, especially the lawyers who are here, think about -- think about the ethical obligation, the ethical obligation he had to do what he did. and he did nothing wrong. hopefully mr. adegbile on a motion to reconsider will have the votes to take his position as assistant attorney general for civil rights in the justice department. a shameful day for the united states senate. i yiel is scheduled to gavel back in tomorrow afternoon. on the agenda, and additional judicial nomination for the 10th circuit court. here's a look at

the agenda for the week ahead. >> looking ahead at the week in congress before they take their mid march break, we are joined by bob q sect, managing editor of "the hill." we talked about the house passing and aid bill for the ukraine. around whichsue the white house and congress can come to some sort of agreement? >> only 23 members voted no on the house package. some of them citing the nation's debt. but overall bipartisan movement has moved to the senate and it is a bit more complicated in the senate area there could be amendments on sanctions and other issues that could complicate the passage. but overall there is a bipartisan movement to help the ukraine and the white house is pushing it. one way or the other, it will get done. >> the senate is debating to bills on the military and on sexual assault. they have moved forward with the bill from senator mccaskill,

which will get a vote on monday. will any senator vote against that though? will definitely have bipartisan support and it should pass. we have been watching this massive intraparty struggle between claire mccaskill angela brand on the floor. in herll has a key ally camp, carl levin, the chairman of the senate armed services committee. joomla! brands measure just fell short. everyone wants to curb sexual assault in the military. it looks like this has bipartisan support and will sail through the upper chamber now that the jell-o brand measure has been seeded. >> sail through the senate, what does that mean for the house? similars oort? >> a very good question. we really have not heard house republicans talk a lot about this. it has been all about the senate . that is a good question. once the bill passes the senate,

what will the house do? a long way to go on this one. maybe there is bicameral negotiation, but it remains to be seen. >> for insomniac c-span2 watchers, the senate will be in all night. why is that? >> climate change. two senators are going to be talking about climate change. of course, this is because there has been a partisan battle over what to do on climate change, how to address whether it exists . some republicans say that that is overblown, but there is also a division among democrats on this. the white house considering the keystone xl pipeline. critics say that would affect climate change in a negative fashion. the administration has downplayed those concerns and it is expected that the pipeline will be consumed -- will be continued. the finals are that

decision will happen in the next couple of months. >> we saw some reports this week that harry reid has still not given up on extending unemployment insurance. >> there have been ongoing talks with a number of republicans in the senate to try to get a bipartisan deal. have been between mitch mcconnell and harry reid, working with more centrist republicans to try to get some kind of deal. that would actually put pressure on the house, but house republicans have said that they are not interested in moving an unemployment package, but there has been no deal struck. democrats say they are still trying to. remember, republicans in the senate do not want to be blamed for blocking this. -- we do notw what know whether these talks will succeed or not. >> it is early on the story regarding the medicare payments to physicians. what might happen with that? >> i have been covering health

care for a while. in the late 1990's we were talking about the so-called talk fix. we are still talking about it, 15 years later. the patch, this is basically payments to physicians under medicare, they are under reimbursed and the physicians lobby has been pushing hard for this, but it is expensive. if you change the complicated formula, roughly $140 billion. the house is moving forward to fix it with a delay in the individual obamacare mandate. that will mostly be a partisan vote, but what happens after that? when this expires? in all likelihood they will do what they always do, kick the can down the road. wase heard that there legislation coming up announced the deals with the president's executive authority and his ability to write executive actions. what has been planned by the gop? >> they are planning to move to

are aimed atbills what republicans call overreach by the president, who is enforcing only laws that he supports and wants to delay. republicans say that that is illegal. these bills would set up more transparency. one of them would say that if the administration wants to not enforce a certain part of the law or delay part of it, they have to tell congress why. so, these are probably mostly going to be partisan votes, but we will see. in recent weeks we have seen some of the democratic vulnerable's up for reelection in 2014 have been deciding with republicans. sect, managing editor of "the hill year ago follow his reporting online. update.or the >> thanks for having me. >> the senate is back in

tomorrow a bit later than usual, 4:00 eastern time, considering the nomination of a newly circuit judge for the 10th circuit. the vote to move forward is scheduled for 5:30. also a vote for the military sexual assault though. following those votes, the willte action task force hold an all-night session on climate change. harry reid is expected to speak as a part of that group. you can watch through the afternoon and into the evening. all of the action is live on our companion network, c-span2. members of the house are scheduled to begin at noon on eastern time on tuesday. considering the intervention in the ukraine, calling on u.s. sanctions on russia. they will also be working on a number of bills under rule suspension. you can watch live house covered on tuesday. tomorrow morning on "washington journal him come and see book talks about the economy

programs, followed by alex wayne . he will look at the health care law and the delay on older health care plans. james when doerr discusses government funding to help educate students with special needs. we will be looking for your tweets and facebook comments, live at 7 a.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> we do not have a criminal investigation role. we have an enforcement role. one of the most important things we do is enforce those federal securities laws. aching sure that wall street abide by those rules. we do not have a criminal authority. we have the problem to bring the approval of our commission, civil fraud action and negligence actions against those who violate federal securities laws. we cannot send anyone to jail, but we can assess civil

penalties. there is some legislation in congress to give us the ability thoseess higher against who commit wrongdoing. to discourse their ill-gotten gains, the profits they make from their wrongdoing. and we have the power to bar someone from the securities industry, so that they basically cannot live another day to defraud again. >> mary jo white, tonight at 8:00 on "q&a." >> if more than one entity manages the key item, bite nature the internet will no longer be well met. the heart, for example, of the domain name system is the root services system. very few people appreciate that

in order to resolve names on internet, there is an actual root system that makes that work for the whole planet. and in the room, all names are resolved to make sure the www. c-span.org, for example, or any other website name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time, for the last two plus decades. >> the head of the internet program for assigned names and numbers on the role that domain names play. monday, on "the communicators." >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gave a speech in washington, d.c. last week at aipac. he spoke about the is raw -- the israeli-palestinian conflict and the iranian nuclear program. this is about 45 minutes. ♪

>> we are honored to be joined this morning by the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu. [applause] like churchill in the 1930's, the prime minister has long been a voice in the wilderness. early to warn the world about the threat of terrorism and radical islam. he has fought the international campaign to you legitimize israel -- to de-legitimize

israel and argued the threat of a nuclear rise iran not just to israel but the entire world. ladies and gentlemen, join me in recognizing the first state of israel [applause] . mr. prime minister, today the american pro-israel community is gathered. 14,000 strong, to send a clear message back to the message -- people of israel. those of us in this room and millions more across this

country support israel's struggle for peace and security. thank you for your leadership and thank you for being with us today. ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor to welcome the prime minister of the state of israel, benjamin netanyahu. [applause] ♪

[applause] >>.gov very much -- thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. i bring you greetings from jerusalem. [applause] the eternal undivided capital of

israel and the jewish people. [applause] i want to thank all of you for working so tirelessly to strengthen the alliance between israel and america. american support for israel for that alliance is at an all-time high and i can tell you that there is no country on earth that is more pro-american than israel. [applause] i want to thank the leaders of aipac, the officers of aipac, the 14,000 deltek -- delegates of aipac, the members of congress, the members of the israeli government, and our two

able ambassadors, the ambassador of israel to the united states and the ambassador of the united states to israel, and our u.n. ambassador rice -- ambassador. i want to thank you all for safeguarding and nurturing the most precious alliance in the world, the alliance between israel and the united states of america. [applause] my friends, i have come here to draw a clear line. you know that i like to draw lines. [laughter] especially red ones. the line i want to draw today is

the line between life and death, the between right and wrong, between the blessings of a brilliant future and the curses of a dark past. i stood very close to that dividing line tubing weeks ago -- two weeks ago. i visit in army in the golan heights. that field hospital was not set up for israelis. it was set up for syrians. [applause] israel has treated nearly a thousand will and syrians --

wounded syrians. men, women, and a lot of children. they come to our borders bleeding and desperate. often, they are near death. on my visit i met two such syrians. a shell-shocked father and is badly wounded five-year-old boy. a few days earlier, the man's wife and baby daughter were blown to bits by iranian bombs dropped by assad's air force. now, the grieving father was holding his little boy in his arms and israeli doctors were struggling to save the boy's life.

i heard from them, and from the other patients there, what all the syrians who have been treated in israel say. they all tell the same story. they say, all these years, assad has lied to us. he told us that iran was our friend and israel was our enemy. but iran is killing us and israel, israel is saving us. [applause] those syrians discovered what you have always known to be true . in the middle east, bludgeoned by her tree and -- by butchery and barbara some, israel is humane. israel is compassionate. israel is a force for good.

[applause] that border that runs 100 yards east of that field hospital is the dividing line between decency and depravity, between compassion and cruelty. on the one side stands israel, animated by the values we cherish. thou use that move was to treat sick palestinians, thousands from gaza. they come to our hospitals. we treat them despite the fact that terrorist that gaza hurled thousands of rockets at our city. it is the values that inspire is really medics and restaurateurs

to rush to the centers of natural disasters across the world. to haiti, japan, the philippines, too many stricken lands. on the other side of that moral divide, steeped in blood and savagery, stand the forces of terror. i run, assad, as will a, al qaeda, and many others. did you ever hear about serious sending a field hospital anywhere? did you ever hear about iran sending a humanitarian delegation overseas? you missed that memo? [laughter] do you know why you haven't heard anything about that? because the only thing that iran sends abroad are rockets, terrorist, and missiles to

murder, maine, and amendments -- maim, and meanace the innocent. [applause] what the iranian regime does abroad is similar to what they do to their own people. they execute hundreds of political alert -- political prisoners. a throw thousands more into their jails and they repress millions in a brutal theocracy. if you want to understand the moral divide that separates israel from its enemies, just listen to the head of hezbollah. he said this -- iran and hezbollah love death and israel loves life and that is why, he said, iran and hezbollah will win and israel will lose. well, he is right about the first point. they do glorify death and we do sanctify life.

but he is dead wrong on the second point. it is precisely because we love life that israel shall win. [applause] in the past year, iran's radical regime has tried to blur the moral divide and wheels out it smiling president and its move-talking foreign minister. if you listen to their soothing words, they are not square with a ron's aggressive actions. iran says they only want a peaceful nuclear program. why is it building a heavy water reactor, which has no purpose in a purple -- in a peaceful

nuclear program? iran says it has nothing to hide. white does it ban inspectors from its secret military sites? why does it not divulge the secrets of its military nuclear activities? they absolutely refuse to say word about that. iran says it is not building nuclear weapons. why does it continue to build icbms, intercontinental ballistic missiles, whose only purpose is to carry nuclear warheads? unlike scud missiles which are limited to a range of a few hundred miles, icbms can cross oceans and strike right now or very soon. the eastern seaboard of the

united states, washington, and very soon after that, everywhere else in the united states, up to l.a. iran's missiles can already reach israel. those icbm's that they are building, they are not intended for us. remember that beer commercial? this but's for you -- bud's for you? [laughter] when you see iran building icbms, remember that at scud is for you. only the americans got that joke. [laughter] it is not only that iran does not walk the walk. in the last few weeks, they don't even bother to talk the talk. iran's leaders say they will not

his mental a single centrifuge, they will not discuss their ballistic missile program, and guess what tune they are singing in tehran? it is not "god bless america." it is "death to america." they chant this as brazenly as ever. here is my point -- iran continues to stand unabashedly on the wrong side of the moral divide and that is why we must continue to stand unequivocally on the right side of that divide. we must oppose iran and stand up for what is right. [applause] my friends, yesterday met with president obama, vice president biden, secretary kerry, and the

leaders of the u.s. congress. we had very good meetings. i thank them for their strong support for israel. [applause] for our security, including in the vital area of missile defense. i said that the greatest threat to our common security is that of a nuclear-armed iran. we must prevent iran from having the capability to produce nuclear weapons. i want to redirect -- reiterate that point. not just to prevent them from having the weapon, but to prevent them from having the capacity to make the weapon. [applause] that means we must dismantle iran's heavywater reactor and its underground enrichment facilities. we must get rid of iran's centrifuges and its stockpiles

of enriched uranium and we must insist that iran fully divulge the military dimensions of its nuclear program. 17 countries around the world have peaceful nuclear energy programs. they are doing this without spinning centrifuges, without enriching uranium, without operating heavywater facilities, and without conducting military nuclear research. do you know why iran insists on doing all of these things that the other peaceful countries do not do? it is because iran does not want a peaceful nuclear program. iran once a military nuclear program. i said it here once, i will say it here again -- if it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if a quack like a duck, what is it? it ain't a chicken.

it is certainly not a dove. it is still a nuclear duck. [applause] unfortunately, the leading powers of the world are talking about leaving iran with the capability to enrich uranium. i hope they do not do that. that would be a grave error. it would leave the ron -- iran as a threshold nuclear power. it would enable iran to rapidly develop nuclear weapons at a time when the world's attention is focused elsewhere and we see as we speak that that could happen. in one part of the world today, tomorrow and another part, maybe north korea.

just remember what he wrote a few years ago. he wrote this in a rare moment of candor. if a country can enrich uranium even to a low-level, it can effectively produce nuclear weapons. precisely. leaving iran is a threshold nuclear power would deliver a death blow to non-proliferation. iran is an outlaw state. it has multiple -- violated multiple un security council resolutions prohibiting enrichment. if we allow this outlaw, terrorist state to enrich uranium, how could we serious

blood -- seriously demand that any other country not enrich uranium? i believe that letting iran enrich uranium would open up the floodgates. it would up a pandora's box of nuclear proliferation in the middle east and around the world. that must not happen. [applause] we will make sure it does not happen. letting the worst terrorist regime on the planet get atomic bombs would endanger everyone and it certainly would endanger israel since i run openly calls for our destruction. 70 years ago, our people, the jewish people, were left for dead. we came back to life. we will never be brought to the break of extinction again. [applause] as prime minister of israel, i will do what ever i must do to

defend the jewish state of israel. [applause] you know, i am often asked whether israel truly once diplomacy to succeed. my answer is, of course we want diplomacy to succeed. no country has a greater interest in the peaceful elimination of the iranian nuclear threat. this threat will not be eliminated by just any agreement .

only by an agreement that requires iran to fully dismantle its military nuclear capabilities. [applause] you know how you get that agreement with iran? not by relieving pressure, but

by adding pressure. [applause] pressure is what brought iran to the negotiating table in the first place and only more pressure will get them to abandon their nuclear weapons program. greater pressure on iran will not make war more likely. it will make war less likely. the greater the pressure on iran , the greater the pressure on iran and the more credible of force on iran, the smaller the chance the forceful ever have to be used. ladies and gentlemen, peace is israel's highest aspiration. i'm prepared to make a historic peace with our palestinian neighbors. [applause] a peace that would and a century of conflict and bloodshed. this would be good for us. this would be good for the palestinians. peace would also open up the possibility of establishing formal ties between israel and leading companies -- leading countries in the arab world.

many arab leaders, and leave me, this is a fact. many arab leaders today already realize that israel is not their enemy but peace with the palestinians would turn our relations with them and with many arab countries into open and thriving relationships. [applause] the combination of israeli innovation and golf entrepreneurship, to take one example -- i think this combination could catapult the entire region forward. i think that together, we could resolve -- actually solve the region's water and energy problems. israel has half the rainfall that we had 65 years ago. we have 10 times the population. our gdp has shot up, thank god. we have half the rainfall, 10 times the population, and our water use goes up. which country in the world is not have water problems? israel. [applause]

why? technology and innovation. we could make that available to our arab neighbors throughout the region. we could solve the water problems, we can solve the energy problems, we could improve agriculture, we can improve education, health with diagnostics on the internet. all that is possible. we could better the lives of hundreds of millions. we all have so much to gain from peace. that is why want to thank the indomitable john kerry. new york and tel aviv, those are the cities that never sleep. john kerry is definitely the city -- secretary of state that never sleeps.

[applause] i have got the bags under my eyes to prove it. we are working together literally day and night to seek a door both these, -- a durable peace, and the mutual recognition of two nationstates. [applause] israel is the nationstate of the jewish people. with the civil rights of all citizens, and jews and non-jews alike, are guaranteed. the land of israel is worthy identity of the jewish people was forged. it was there were jacob dreamed his dreams. it was in jerusalem where david rolled his kingdom.

we never forget that, but it is time the palestinians stop denying history. [applause] just as israel is prepared to recognize a palestinian state, the palestinians must be prepared to recognize a jewish state. [applause] the president recognized the jewish state and in doing so, you would be telling your people, the palestinians, that while we might have a territorial dispute, the right of the jewish people to a state of their own is beyond dispute. [applause] you would be telling palestinians to abandon the fantasy of flooding israel with refugees were amputating parts of the galilee and recognizing the jewish state, you would finally make clear that you are truly prepared to and the

conflict -- end the conflict. recognize the jewish state. no excuses, no delays, it is time. [applause] my friends, it may take years, it may take decades for this formal acceptance of israel to filter down to all ayers of palestinian society. if this peace is to be more than a brief interlude between wars, israel needs long-term security arrangements on the ground to protect the peace and to protect israel if the peace unravels. though security arrangements would also a special always be important -- though security arrangements would always be important but it would be war

important when the peace in the middle east unravels. three years ago, our region was a very different place. can anyone sitting here, anyone listening to us -- can anyone tell me and be sure what the middle east would look like 5, 10, 20 years from now? we cannot that the security of israel on our father's hopes. in the middle east, that is usually a losing bet. we should always hope for the best, but in the middle east we have to be prepared for the worst.

despite the best of hopes, international peacekeeping forces sent to neville -- lebanon, gaza, sinai, and golan heights, a did not prevent those eras from becoming -- areas from becoming armed strongholds against israel. if we reach in agreement with the palestinians as i hope -- i don't delude myself. that peace will most certainly

come under attack, constant attack, by hezbollah, hamas, al qaeda, and others. experience has shown that foreign peacekeepers, foreign peacekeeping forces, whether they keep the peace only when there is peace. when they are subjected to repeated attacks, those forces eventually go home. as long as the pieces under assault, the only force that can be relied on to defend the peace and defend israel is the force defending its own home, the israeli army, the brave soldiers of the idf. [applause] i will reveal to you a secret. this position may not win the universal praise. that occasionally happens when i stake out positions. i am charged with protecting the security of my people, the people of israel, and i will never gamble with the security of the one and only jewish state. [applause] as we work in the coming days, coming weeks to forge a door will peace -- a durable peace, i

hope that palestinian leadership will stand with israel and the united states on the right side of the moral divide. the site up these, reconciliation, and hope -- the side of peace, reconciliation, and hope. you can clap. [applause] you want to encourage them to do that. i do, and i know you do, too. thank you. one movement that is definitely on the wrong side of the moral divide is the movement to boycott israel.

[applause] that movement will fail. [applause] let me tell you why. [applause] i want to explain to you why. beyond our traditional trading partners, countries throughout asia, africa, latin america where i will soon be going, these countries are flocking to israel. they want is really technology to help transform their technology their countries as it has hours. it is not just the small countries that are coming to israel. it is also the superpowers. you know, the other superpowers -- apple, google, microsoft,

intel, facebook, yahoo! they come because they want to benefit from israel's unique ingenuity and innovation. the boycott movement is not going to stop that any more than the arab boycott movement could stop israel from becoming a global technological power. they're going to fail. [applause] in the knowledge-based century, israel's best economic days are ahead of it, mark my words. [applause] wait, wait. i don't want you to get complacent.

[laughter] the fact that they're going to fail doesn't mean that the bds movement should not be vigorously opposed. they should be opposed because they are bad for peace and they -- and because bds is just plain wrong. [applause] most people in the bds movement don't seek a solution forced to states and two people. on the contrary, they openly admit that they seek the dissolution of the only state for the jewish people. they are not seeking peace. they are not seeking reconciliation. some of their gullible fellow travelers actually do believe that bds advances peace. the opposite is true. bds sets back piece because it hardens palestinian positions

and it makes mutual compromise less likely. i think these are all important points, but not the critical one. the critical is that eds is morally wrong. it turns morality on its head. this is the main point. i can tell you israel, like all states, is not beyond criticism. we have a boisterous democracy. everyone has an opinion and believe me, no one in israel is shy about expressing it -- about anything. in israel, self-criticism is on steroids. the bds movement is not above legitimate criticism. it is about making israel the legitimate. it presents a distorted and

twisted picture of israel to be naïve and the ignorant. bds is nothing but a farce. here is why -- listen. in dozens of countries, academics are imprisoned for their beliefs. the universities of which country does bds want to sanction and boycott? israel. he won country in the middle east were professors can say, write, and teach what they want. throughout the middle east, christians are fleeing for their lives. in what country does bds want churches to divide -- divest from? israel.

the one country in the middle east that protects christians and the right of worship for everyone. [applause] throughout the middle east, journalists are jailed and women are denied their most basic rights. which country does bds want to sanction? take a guess. israel, the only country in the region with a free press, a progressive gay rights record, and where women have presided over each of the three branches of government. [applause]

when you hear this -- and anyone can verify this -- you have to wonder, how could anyone fall for the b.s. in bds? [laughter] [applause] well, you should not be surprised. run history people believe the most outrageous, absurd thing about the jews. that were using the blood of children to bake, that we were spreading the plague throughout europe, that we were plotting to take over the world. yeah, but you can say, how can educated people today believe the nonsense spewed by bds about israel? that should not surprise you, either. some of history's most influential thinkers and writers -- full tear, dostoevsky, t.s. eliot, many others, spread the most preposterous lies about the jewish people.

it is hard to should prejudices that have been ingrained in consciousness over millennia. from antiquity to the middle ages to modern times, jews were boycotted, discriminated against, and singled out. today, the singling out of the jewish people has turned into the singling out of the jewish state. attempts to boycott, divest, and sanction israel, the most threatened democracy on earth, are simply the latest chapter in the long and dark history of anti-semitism. [applause] those who wear the bds label should be treated exactly as we treat any anti-semite or bigot. they should be exposed and condemned. the boycotters should be boycotted. [applause] everyone should know what the letters bds really stand for -- bigotry, dishonesty, and shame. [applause] and those who oppose bds, ike

scarlett johansson, they should be applauded. [applause] 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 friends, on behalf of the people of israel

-- i bring you a blessing. [speaking israeli] choose life, so that you and your loved ones may live. ladies and gentlemen, my friends, 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 proud. stand strong. [applause]

thank you very much. thank you all. keep doing a great job. ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

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run out of gunpowder for her shot shells, so buffalo bill lend her some of his outer of a different type and it blew up her shotgun. it may have been and i'm sorry i blew up your shotgun gift from buffalo bill to annie oakley. >> more from the national firearms museum, tonight on c-span three. >> former cia analysts talked about israel, iran, and the situation in the middle east. the nonprofit institute for and middle eastern policy hosted the event. this is just under one hour. [applause] >> let's consider the question of what is an ally. at a minimum, i'd say it involves certain coincidence or congruence of events between two

countries. but more than that it implies that the relationship itself has positive value in that one country is willing to do certain things that they would not otherwise because the alliance exists and the other country would like it to do that with the implied quid pro quo that the other country would do some things it would not otherwise do in favor of the interests of the first state. mutual assistance, backscratching and if you look at the u.s. israeli relationship , there are some common interest with regard to our domestic, political structure. liberal democracy, in general, purdue rails that prevails.

we do have some shared concerns with our israeli friends. the coincidence does run into roadblocks. as far as having common adversaries is concerned, i think i would say that although we certainly share a lot of the , someiolent adversaries of the aspects of the israeli approach for dealing with them are not ones that we would share, and not once that are in the u.s. interest. it is not in the u.s. interest to have had a string relating blockade of the gaza strip as a , whichdealing with hamas

israel considers a sworn enemy of itself. consider as one of the major objectives of the current israeli government the continued control of the west egg as it clearly is, that also is something that is not in u.s. interest, and has little to do with fending off the violent adversaries that we may share. we have to look at that other aspect of alliances and mutual assistance when each side does for the other what they would not on the rise do. in one direction that is to say what the united states does that he would nine out -- would not otherwise do. if there is an awful lot. we can start with the approximately $3.1 billion in assistance each year. this has been mentioned earlier in the day, but with review some of the bidding. throughout thet

years is $118 billion in uncorrected dollars, a little more than one quarter of a trillion dollars. this is going to a country with a per capita income of $23,000 per year, which makes israel one of the 25 richest countries of the world. average incomer level and for the european union as a whole. as military strength is concerned, which is something we would really turn to when we talk about security issues, there is no question that israel is the preeminent military power in the region. we are all aware of its nuclear arsenal, but at the conventional level, the qualitative edge that the israelis have enjoyed and has accounted for their splendid victories in the past has if anything, or an greater as arab armies and their equipment have

rusted. that is the appropriate description of something like the egyptian army. -- ify're worried t there were a new military conduct between israel and its neighbors, it would be quite frankly no contest. it would be hard to imagine in the of the adversaries even getting as far as those first few days of the 1973 war when by virtue of surprise, before things were reversed, the egyptian army managed to score enough successes so that all stando that would have tall and with respect start the peace process that he did. ofs debate has all kind opportunity cost for us our american taxpayers. equivalent opportunity cost that we could do with that $3.1 billion annually, portable the u.s. army would you probably read about, is having to shrink quite a bit because of budgetary

expenditures. we had a couple of weeks ago about the military pension cost of living, that brought us again to another debt ceiling prices over this money would pay for that about five times over each year. $400,000 -- or hundred thousand more children into head start. 400,000 repair over bridges that are in need of repair this country. you get the point. -- beyond a military a material assistance, we are providing other support. certainly something that the united states would not have done, were it not for the alliance, or its half of the alliance.

have resulted in substantial political and diplomatic cost for the united states. direction, the other what assistance is being provided from israel to the u.s., and it comes far harder. in fact have it is hard to find anything at all that's the description which i mentioned before, of something that the ally would not otherwise be doing on its own behalf anyway. you hear when this question comes up references to things like science and technology cooperation, especially with regard to military technology, and clearly we have had that was the israelis. almost all of this is either things that israel would be doing on its own because it is it is in its own interest to do , or do something where the cooperation predict ways and probably would take place without the extraordinary nature of the relationship that results in all of the material and a

black support going the other way. -- and diplomatic support going the other way. the we think of allies in security context, we think of fighting behind on -- on behalf of our allies. we have fought alongside our allies from britain and canada in world wars and sort of rings -- and that sort of thing. here we do not get any defendant all. it has been less damaging for israel to pay out of our fights, which was demonstrated in operation desert storm back in 1991. we made absolutely clear at the the israelis should not be involved because it would be more politically damaging for us if they did. that underscores the extent to which the relationship on security matters has been more of a liability than an asset. the rentablebly set of liabilities -- a

principle set of liabilities is the extremist and terrorist reaction to what is why the scene -- widely seen as the united states being the trees patriots and facilitator of israeli behavior and policies that are subjects of hatred and controversy, and colluding the continued occupation of palestinian land. a couple of years ago, the general made a comment and when she reportedly expressed the judgment that the united states has been paying a substantial prize because of this particular association with the policy of another state. the price we see comes up again and again in interrogations of captured terrorists or would-be terrorists when they are describing their motives. there've been a variety of

gripes that we hear through the years, and this include some of the people here in the united states. the times square bomber and things like that. the one thing that comes up again and again is the unresolved palestinian issue cover the israeli role in it, and the u.s. role in backing israel. that they are an ally in the united states is imperative and art local distorts -- embedded in our political discourse. one's ally after all is supposed to be a concern of oneself, that goes back to the basic concept of an alliance. any time the label of israeli security gets applied to something, then the u.s. is induced to follow certain paths that it might not otherwise all of -- follow. this is something that the

israeli government does repeatedly for other purposes about particularly ones having to do with those controversial issues about the occupation. with all the discussions about the west bank and what might be done about that we hear the israeli demand, among any others, to maintain a military presence in definitely in the jordan valley. with the rationale being that it has to be a form of rejection against some sort of unspecified threat coming from the east. if you start thinking that through and asking yourself just what is the threat that would come from the east? is jordan going to fire up the old texan go across? the iranians could go across iraq and jordan? and a little bit ludicrous, and moreover given the qualitative advantage, not to mention the intelligence, their prowess and so on, any

arab legion that started waving across the jordan river would be crushed before and had a chance to dry its feet. even if the israelis were not in occupation of the west bank. we really are concerned about israeli security, the occupation is a net minus rather than a net plus for israel, and so far and that it has to do -- constitution a major preoccupation of the israeli defense forces. we have to worry about other things that might be real threats. hatred andse of the reaction that sometimes takes terrorists and violent forms because of the occupation. happeningsimilar is with the iranian loop to your question -- nuclear question. there is no doubt that there is

a lot of genuine concern in israel, and i dug about the population, not just about the government about about the spec are of an arabian nuclear weapon. if that were the only motivation here, then the government of israel would be supporting current negotiating effort. clearly, that is the best chance of the world has had in the last iranian to cap the nuclear program in a way that would give us the assurance it will stay peaceful. achieved at what was with the preliminary agreement that was negotiated with them last november. that alone, even where justin then indefinitely definitely, got most of what we need to get in terms of enhanced inspections, in terms of putting a cap on the lower enriched uranium, in turn to going with the media interest uranium,

having restrictions on any further advances that mean anything after nuclear action and so forth. israele government of has been doing everything it can to sabotage and undermine these, including promoting legislation in this country that would have that effect. one has to conclude that the israeli policy seekers are not driven by the iranian government is given by other objectives. the main objective would be to keep in play the issue of a possible iranian nuclear weapon, because that immediately can't be translated into israeli security. -- can be translated into israeli security. this would be one new against the 200 that israel has, but we still are enrich very much of and object of of security an agreement that gives us

confidence that there never will be iranian nuke. the major thing, the single nationalg theme on foreign and security policy, that the israeli government has wrought for that is the anti-arabian theme. if you listen to the prime minister speech earlier this week, the first half of the speech about how awful iran is. said that if you believe it, does not lay lead to the conclusion that we ought to undermine the negotiations aimed at we do not having an iranian is all the more reason to the negotiations succeed rather than to sabotage them. let me just mentioned a couple things that the prime minister said ewa because he really has been streaming -- draining to make his case.

iran has not decided to build a nuclear program, and any of their weapons design work was ended over a decade ago. that iran publicly called for the destruction of israel. i am pretty familiar with iranian public statements, and i am a hard time finding anything. there was one thing that the former president said a couple of years ago that got mistranslated into wiping israel off of the map or something like that. iraniansk the government with her perspective is, the iranians say that if the palestinian issue to be resolved when he can see them having full deval patrick relations -- diplomatic relations. thehows you how far from truth is any statement that a wrong publicly calls for israel posture structure. -- israel's destruction. and the prime ministers says

that iran continues to build icbms. falls, thererate is no indication they're doing anything with icbms or even i rpm's for the next lower rate. even on those command not doing much in the way of testing or development so far. this constant of drumbeat of this iranian specter do for mr. netanyahu's government. ? it serves as the best kind of distraction you could possibly have from things that they promised or would rather not talk about would have been the subject of earlier presentations here today. the occupation. it keeps iran ostracized, keeps it as an international riot, and therefore is not going to be competitive were implodes with israel in the middle east. and it precludes any competition for u.s. attention as a partner

in things where we might want to work with other governments and not just with the israelis in this region to advance our interests. however much iran may still be an adversary in other respects, the fact is we have some parallel interest to them with things like building afghanistan. some of you may recall that there was a brief window in fact -- in 2001 where we were working closely to bring about political change and transition in the karzai government. that lasted for just a few months before our president the layered the axis of evil. they told iran to take a number --number, we are getting a iraq.

loopsure that the iranian dealer program stays peaceful -- nuclear program stays peaceful. preventing us from doing things like talking to the radiance about how to keep afghanistan stable. aboutncluding thought with regard tot the israeli relationship, but indeed with our relationship with any of the countries, one that we like all our lives or that we might call adversaries, that it would be better just to forget about those labels and and at specific interests where particular country can help us and where it doesn't help us with regard to things that are important to us. of foreign-policy and national security would be better served if we did that. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you paul.

our next bigger isn't ray mcgovern -- speaker israel mcgovern. [applause] >> as i look out at this room i see a lot of got the people. then the g-8 -- medea benjamin. are you in the house? [applause] it is painful for her to stand up because she -- they dislocated her shoulder for and i know how painful that is. welcome back, medea.

[applause] is the others still camped out on the airport in cairo? or did they get into gaza? [indiscernible] >> not into gaza. there are a lot of people to give me a lot of courage. you can see a lot right out here. thatr this raise let rachel corrie's dad gave me all the time. [applause] say presente. ,ll it says is rachel cory

, 2003.0, 1979, march 16 anybody see any significant to march 16, 2003? when was that? today before the war started? why do you suppose they didn't then?- they did it why did they have the instruction to back over her and make sure her back was roping -- broken then? they knew that the war was brewing and that the headlines would be dominated with the war. a lot of people are facing

bulldozers out there, figuratively. when i look at the frankly, i can say if rachel can do that, i can deal with whatever i feel called to do. it is real really and that's all it -- if israel really a u.s. ally? there is a definition for all y in the dictionary. it is a country with whom your country has a mutual defense treaty. is that too literal? i was speaking with the congressman one time and said that these lawmakers should probably know that israel is not our ally, and for them to talk about art ally israel, likely speaking without a mutual defense treaty, that is not quite right. that is my first white. thather point is simply

after the 1973 war with the arabs did attack israel, there were all kinds of plans but how to read this from happening again. some of my former colleagues work involved in taking soundings among higher levers -- high air of leaders and so forth. it to theched israelis, this is not widely known. ,hey said that is quite sweet they get very much, but no thanks. why do you suppose a country would turn down a mutual defense treaty with the strongest nation in the world? require internationally orders.zed order -- b another thing is that treaties require a modicum of sharing of

information. if you're going to attack another country you should really let your allies know that next week we are going to attack syria or so forth. they didn't want to bother with that because it is far easier for them to ask for her give this rather than permission. you have audibly heard the old saw that some people wanted to --e israel the 61st state 51st state. that would mean that we would only have two senators. [laughter] [applause] i had an old russian teacher who used to say this point. wire you laughing? who are you laughing well? laugh.s no reason to

this is really nothing to laugh. ,'s ally? u.s. hostile i had a chance to directly address this issue on c-span. there was a briefing on the downing street memo. wasdowning street memo plumb list in the london times -- published in the london times. it was a literal reinvention of -- sir richard -- was toldor the that the president had cited to attack iraq and was

justified by the junction of terrorism and mass junction -- weapons of mass destruction. the one that intelligence "andsts are pining after, the facts and intelligence are being fixed around the policy." document, acknowledged as authentic by many. the media missed it. time they got this briefing cover you cannot call the hearing because he was not in the majority, in the bottom was sixapital, that weeks after the publication by the london times. meeting, were the

were on amy goodman, and i had a chance to look at the washington post that morning and sure enough, they broke their silence and said what is this a deal about the downing street memo? we knew all this stuff all along? . i cannot believe it, they were cheering for the war. during the course of that briefing i had a chance to answer some questions. ofce there were no weapons mass instruction, and were no ties between iraq and al qaeda, the congresspeople who kept think in, there were not for about 10 or 12 of them, they were all democrats and they kept coming in and switching around so people can stay for five or 10 minute. jim moran finally said could somebody help me out here?

it wasn't weapons of mass destruction, it wasn't terrorism, what was the? --it? else were nobody going to answer that, so i said -- o i l.acronym ,he congresspeople look at me and i sent over aisle, i for --ael they all froze up. over logistics. we do not say permanent anymore. what do we say?

enduring. have to bethat, they enduring, not permanent. then i saw that these people really are objecting to what it said about israel. it is well-known that the u.s. and israel are determined to dominate that part of the world. and i'm thinking, wow, here is the c-span cameras, and i'm an intelligence analyst, and i'm not running for anything, and i do not need any money. tell it like it is, that is my whole profession. you have to realize that not but is israel not our ally, the general just finished telling the financial news that they have our president wrapped around her little finger.

and that he is our president mesmerized. assist --ll see sort cease and he said, but it was really quite an exhibition about how explosive this issue was. the rulesating all of of what you say where the cameras are on. children toldmy me that john stewart forward to all of this three days later and mcgovern was violating the rules for acronyms. have an grim that spelled out the word that you really mean. i was just delighted. bases, we did not

get them. oil, i do not think anyone in that if a will argue rock to not sit on oil, we would not have gone in there anyway. what about the israeli thing? well -- 1000perience was worth words. i have a little telephone call to be on later, and i was anding across the area of one of the reporters dog after me ask me why was anti-semitic. i'm from thenot,

broad scope and my father has an honorary degree. the next day they all ran thing about as anti-semitic. three hours after finished testifying, representative round your kitty issuing a statement saying this is terrible what mcgovern senate was anti-semitic, who is running to dominate this type that part of the middle east? of course not us? . should be operated for what he -- he should be operated for what he said. that was the reaction. i should not have been surprised, and i was gone i was not running for office is that i did not need any money. nd then what was interesting, howard dean, the head at the time issued a statement, as the same as came out from the campus people of new york who said that we were

in the room. we interrupted them. they did not, they were too shocked. he is howard dean, he blew his chance just because the media did a job on him, everyone made a point of saying he might be a little bit more evenhanded on this. they did a job on this and now he is criticizing me for being anti-semitic. ays later a friend called me and steve sent howard dean is doing a fundraiser out here. and i asked him how did -- what did you think about that downing street memo?

you mean ray mcgovern? he is a good friend of mine. be a friend of yours buddy called me all kinds of problems. i had to come back in and answer phone calls for all of the usual suspects. ,hese people are the real deal he gave me all kinds of problems. what was my reaction to that? i know howard dean. caddy for his parents. for --ed him as it will a little twerp right to figure out how to play golf. the thing is is that this was a

very exclusive golf course on the dunes of the atlantic in east hampton, long island. what does that mean? for those of you not from new york we do not have exclusive this -- you do not know what exclusive is. that means that howard dean could not take his wife to lunch at the club. range me in and told me that they're trying to make it about your anti-semitism, do not do that. what is the point? that one has to expect this kind of thing, and one has to persist. what i would like to do is go for the particular for just a minute.

time.are running out of >> all i want to say is that if you run from the general to the specific about i had a conservation that conversation -- i had a conversation this about falluja, which is america's shame. all kinds of genetic effects -- defects. who knows how falluja started? oh everybody thinks like water guys -- the blackwater guys. it was not. it was the assassination of the sheik, a blindfold, crippled cleric in gaza. he was a spiritual leader in gaza by the israelis in the 22nd of march, 2004. a week before those blackwater

guys got misdirected. two days later they were killed and dragged through the streets. startedys later, u.s. what the u.s. representative called reprisal raids on falluja. people what happens when identify the united states with the kind of assassination techniques that the israelis are doing. i want to close now and simply referred to one of my favorite prophets.hal when justice takes place, fewer if but always as possible -- you guilty, but all are responsible. moreference to evil is insidious and evil itself.

if barack obama and john kerry are indifferent to evil, we we are done.ay it is up to us. there is nothing in the hebrew or christian scriptures that urges us to use the imperative voice in addressing god. that he is very offended about it is idolatry. stein -- tolle palestine, israel, god bless the rest of the world, no exceptions , and then god bless us too. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much.

i do not think i can compete with that. [laughter] that was the afterglow. -- theatrical. i would like to go beyond the common for both of my colleagues have made, to not just suggest that israel is no alley, but also that it is actually not a friend because it does actual damage to the united states through its considerable access to care is an immediate -- congress and the media to promote policies that are not good for the united states or israel. i'm sure you have all heard the question that a friend does not let a friend drive drunk. well the united states has been driving drunk for quite some time, and that dangerous behavior has to some instead been encouraged by israel and many supporters in washington. not haveght or might been an actual enabler of the

death astros american invasion in undeniablyt is the forgery of phony intelligence that fed the process. if the united states goes to war with iran in the near future, it will not be because tehran actually threatens america, it will because israel and its powerful lobby in the u.s. have succeeded in created an essentially false mandate to sex action. -- such action. the prime minister wants commented that 9/11 was good for as repeatedly goal is to draw a red lines that would require the white house to take action with the military against iran. -- advancingad legislation that would commit the united states to intervene attack.ly in unilateral

israel could use its power to make a decision on whether or not the u.s. goes to war. nothing relating to israel is quite light the u.s. interaction with other countries. the dollar cost and bustle financing arrangements -- in special financing arrangements to go to supporting israel are not in place for any other nation. part of the united states israel strategic earners should act of , anyer old of 410 to one israeli expansion of the reciprocity mandated by the so-called visa waiver program. israelis will be ably to travel freely through the united they, tes, while they can block american citizens. this is granted to no other country.

and even introduced a bill to cut off federal funding for any academic organization that engages in boycotting israel. boycotting other countries is ok. interfered american elections, most recently on the behalf of mitt romney. it has corrupted our congress, it is public and rebuking our own head of state. its intelligence officers actually provide alarmist and inaccurate private briefings for american senators on capitol hill. also would not doubt that israel, custom to behaving with impunity toward its patriot washington might manufacture a pretext to draw the u.s. into a new conflict. the false flag attack on the uss liberty in 1967. supportongly

intervention in theory, a proposition that is overwhelmingly disliked white american public -- by the american public. pressure successive administration to conform to its own foreign and security policy views. one other very good reason why israel should not be seeing billions of dollars in military is this persistent espionage against the united states. they stole enriched uranium from a reporter to create a new their arsenal. we have learned how al when producer ornate israel arranged for the illegal purchase of 800 nuclear triggers. an oscar last sunday without any interference of the fbi. existence of a large-scale israelis writing effort at the

time of 9/11 has been widely , as well as hundreds of art students nationwide. five israelis from one of the companies that were observed celebrating against the backdrop of the twin towers going down. while it is often observed that everyone spies on everyone else, espionage is the high risk is that most countries are strictly careful because of fear of low back -- blowback. largely because it knows that few in washington will seek to hold to account. there were no consequences for the israelis when they used passports and tended to be americans and recruited terrorists to carry out attacks inside iran.

using passports in that fashion put every american traveler at risk. israel, where government and business work hand-in-hand, has gained significant advantage as systematically as the link american tech knowledge he with both military and civilian applications. the u.s. develops technology is in -- and then reverse engineered and used for their own expert. sometimes in the technology is military in nature and reince up in the hands of an adversary, the consequences can be serious. israel has sold advanced weapon system to china, and believes it can incorporate technology developed by american companies, including the air to air missile, and the delilah cruise missile. israel has also stolen patriot incorporatenics to into its own little system.

-- missiles. the reality of this is on disputable. -- indisputable. i can recite names as spies for israel that happened caught, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. israel always free to prominently in the fbi were port called for an economic collection -- economic and industrial collection. israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the unit dates -- united states. at anyirectly targeted information on military systems and advanced beauty applications that can be used in israel's sizable armaments industry. he uses electronic methods and

carries out computer intrusion to gain the information. investigative service report reports that they exploited the numerous coproduction products that it had from the pentagon. placing an israeli nationals in key industries is the tech geek utilizes great success. in general accounting office described how israeli citizens residing in the u.s. have stolen sensitive technology to manufacture , obtainedgun tools classified plans for reconnaissance systems, and use airspace on unauthorized users. that israelluded aggressivee most

espionage operation against the united states of any ally. in june 2006, and pentagon administrator moved to override an appeal that had been denied a security clearance. they overruled him when he appealed it, saying that the israeli government is actually engaged in as the austin the united states -- espionage in the united states, and with access to proprietary information, they are likely to be a target. more recently, the counterintelligence officer reported how many cases of israeli espionage are dropped on orders of the justice department. bible investigations into israeli espionage involving both american citizens and israelis that were stopped do political pressure fashion due to political pressure -- stopped

due to political pressure. is it even a friend? there are all kinds of friends in the world, but if you judge -- by itss record record on how it interacts with our people, and the answer would have to be no. thank you. [applause] >> do we have time for questions? a few. >> why is there so little israel's about liberation of nuclear technology for almost 20 years? there is one book that was written about it, but other than

that, i never see anything anywhere. obviously, that is something that is well known, if you know where to look. it is not something that is very much discussed because i think it raises the whole issue of the apartheid regime, and another apartheid regime. i think the u.s. media tend to it pointed -- avoid it. we go on the internet, you can certainly find out all about it. >> there are still some uncertainties about what was happening back then. we have the famous detection by the u.s. satellite of an apparent nuclear test off the coast of africa. i do not think the definitive history has really been written. it may never be written because there are simply some unknowns about that. >> anyone else? >> i would just like to point

out, or ask the questions of in 2009, when we went to gaza, to see the catastrophe that took --ce in the murderer in gaza it seems to me as quite a coincidence that that happened while the election, while he was just taking the office of the president. if you could shed a little light onto that. >> i do not have a really good insight in terms of everything that govern the timing of the israeli decision. i think i would be sick optical -- skeptical that it was revolved around the u.s. election calendar. it had a lease is much to do with the dynamics that were going on in gaza itself.

i would not want to venture an answer beyond that. i would like to just set -- respectfully disagree with my calling. issues onember the the ground. bush was a lame duck, and he was obama came in. there was nobody in charge, bush did not give a rats ask of and obama did not have to do anything. maybe i'm over analyzing it, but it seems to be very crass, and the worst kind of stuff to be doing all of this. 1400 palestinians killed 29 israelis. >> it seems to be logical that it was a test. who has the mic? raul.name is

i made palestinian refugee in lebanon. after hearing all of you guys experienceel that has had a lot to do with how this led to your opinion right now, especially with all we have seen from israel in the past decades and years. have led us to be aware of the great deception of the state of israel has had on us about the palestinians, not only on us but every country in the world. my question is, are we looking for a new, or another national summit to reassess our relations with israel, and reestablishing that relation with palestine? thank you.

[applause] of --will try to oblige you. >> i know that in the last 7-8 months, some of the people in this conference have played an important role in taking us out of the danger of another new war in syria. , have recently spoken out about what i consider to be a very serious danger of confrontation with russia. on theold war brewing issue of ukraine regime change. they are really act if in pushing united dates in this direction. -- active in pushing the united states in this direction.

they spoke out belligerently about a superpower -- nuclear superpower. any of you would talk about these two war dangers. you're probably best qualified. >> this goes beyond the topic of the day, and especially the ukraine problem. i think my only comment would be on the serious side -- syria side. speakers previous about how the israel side played out. the main thing to take note of with hope and optimism for the future is how our representatives here in washington heard loud and clear what was the prevailing american public opinion with regard to

the use of force in that situation. that demonstrates to me that that still matters, even if there are other preferences on the part of foreign governments. the whole ukrainian situation, there so much to play out, i'm not going to speculate how that is going to be gained. do we have time for more questions? >> we have a vote in the national press club. >> thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> on the next washington journal, national journal correspondent nancy cook will talk about the jobs report, and anti-poverty programs. alex lane looks at the health care law delay on older health care plans.

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