one of the keynote speakers, gideon levy, called the two-state solution a trap. >> all right. year when they heard gideon levy address the conference were really amazed, to we had no -- so we had no choice but to bring him back this year for his encore speech. gideon is, of obviously, a well known journalist in israel. he writes frequently and oftentimes controversially if you are a zionist israeli. last year, like i said, his speech went viral online, over about 300,000 views online, english and arabic. arabic, actually, is very popular as well. and today he will be addressing what i would tell a visiting congressional delegation. so with that, gideon, i invite you to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, dave. thank you, everybody. thank you, washington report, who invited me here last year, and i was prepared for a lecture in front of a couple of hundred of distinguished guests. and two months later i started to realize that something is going on. wherever i go in the west bank, refugee camps, villages, people start to tell me they saw me -- [laughter] speaking at the press

also opportunities are extended and this i think will be spoken about laid on by gideon levy if i'm not mistaken in his keynote speech so not going to go into this in detail but opportunities are provided such as trips to israel. so the attempt to socialize people who are perceived even as potential candidates running for congress begins at a very early age from the perspective of some of these groups including that of aipac. in addition of course many plays an exceptionally important role. i had one young jewish american staffer who said to me in a very friendly way, trying to for one thing, whatever you do don't talk about the money. .. spend double the time looking for money. they only arrived, some of them as the representative, longtime veteran of the house side told me here may be on tuesday morning, tuesday or thursday they were on a plane by late thursday or friday morning to raise money again and they are raising money while they are in their offices here as well, so money is exceptionally important to individuals as you know. and as a speed eight organization they do arrange m

the event included a keynote address from columnist, gideon levy, who works for one of israel's oldest daily newspapers. >> all right. so as you roll along i know those who attend last year, when they heard didon levy address -- diddan levy address the conference were amaze what he said, and we have no choice but by popular deplanned to bring him back this year for his encore speech. gideon is a well-known journalist in israel with haaretz. he writes frequently and often times controversially, if you are a zionist israeli. last year, like i said, he speech went viral online over 300,000 views online, english and arabic. arabic was very popular as well. and today he will be addressing what i would tell a visiting congressional delegation. so with that, gideon, i invite you to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, dave. thank you, everybody. thank you, the washington report who invited me here last year and i was prepared for a lecture in front of a couple hundred of distinguished guests, and two months later, i started to realize that something is going on, wherever i go in the west bank