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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who addressed AIPAC in person in 2015, will give a speech to the attendees of the 2018 AIPAC conference
The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is holding its 2018 policy conference in Washington, DC, on Sunday, an event meant to underscore its outsized influence inside America's corridors of power
by hosting key Congressional leaders; the US vice president; the US ambassador to the UN; and several foreign leaders.
This year's conference will crown several of AIPAC's accomplishments in advancing its pro-Israel agenda in Congress and in the White House.
Key to AIPAC's congressional agenda this year will be
to support Israeli goals of curbing Iran's rising power and influence in the Middle East, something Israel sees as a threat to its own economic and military superiority in the region.
AIPAC also seeks to limit US financial support for the Palestinian Authority (PA) and to target the BDS movement for its efforts against the Israeli occupation.
BDS, which stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, is a Palestinian-led international initiative that seeks to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories through economic and cultural boycotts.
According to its website, AIPAC's key legislative agenda includes: "develop a comprehensive strategy for Iran".
Driven by AIPAC's lobbying efforts and by pro-Israeli supporters on the American right, President Donald Trump's administration is trying to undo the American nuclear deal with Iran, signed under the Obama administration in 2015.
Comment: The libtards are of course freaking out at Trump's comments, but if they stopped to think for a minute, they'd come to see that the West desperately needs to get out of its 'liberal democracy' model, which is clearly ossified, decrepit, and at least partly why it's failing. Western democracy after Western democracy is producing election results that have hung parliaments, impossible coalitions, then more expensive elections.
If one good man is all that is available, and all that is needed, then why chuck away a perfectly good (or just reasonably good) leader after just 8 or 10 years?