AIPAC policy meeting begins amid US-Israeli tension

[joeblow]

AIPAC policy meeting begins amid US-Israeli tension
Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:56:09 GMT

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Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks at the AIPAC policy conference in 2009. This year's conference kicks off as the US and Israel recently clashed over plans for new Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The top pro-Israeli lobby in the US, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as AIPAC, has opened its annual three-day conference in Washington DC.

The event is held at a time when a row over Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) has left scars in US-Israeli relations.

The annual conference attracts thousands of lobbyists and protesters who oppose Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to be a plenary speaker on the closing day of AIPAC's March 21-23 conference.

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama is scheduled to be in Indonesia and will not address the event.

Other speakers at the conference, with more than 7,000 attendees, include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni.

The conference is expected to focus on stressing the close US-Israel relations and urging the Obama administration to move past recent tensions with Israel over its plans to build another 1,600 settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Further plans to lobby for enhanced sanctions against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program are also on the agenda of the conference.

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[joeymaclover]

Lee Rosenberg give an emotional speech to AIPAC, it got me all choked up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6oC5Je ... r_embedded

[phishna]

everyone at AIPAC is a traitor, every single person at AIPAC right now should be immediately terminated with extreme prejudice

the USAF should plug that whole bunch with a nuclear tipped predator drone, many AIPAC members are the real terrorist leaders

the AIPAC conference is a target rich environment, every single person at AIPAC, including the media whores, are guilty of treason, they are the real terrorists, not some have starved Muslim in an Afghan cave