American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) - Netanyahu 2015 Morning Talk

Watched Netanyahu speech at AIPAC, a first for me (on the assumption that PMs regularly give talks at AIPAC). Wondered why the Congress speech:  is it election spin, is it pleading to prevent Iran nuke arms or is it something else, I wondered. Well, it has just occurred to me that this visit is probably about getting US commitment to strike Iran (or back an Israel strike).  So it is about lobbying for a US-Israel war commitment. If I hadn't checked other peoples comments, the penny wouldn't have dropped. But someone mentioned that Israel won't strike without US support & that must have got me thinking. The only problem with that theory is that Samantha power virtually declared war on Iran. The wording made it very plain, even though she did not outright say it. Netanyahu stressing Israeli strengths and go-it-alone independence in his talk. I thought it was fine, but there were people canning his talk online (you get that) and, more worrying, I think that there was a bit too long of a pause when he was done and not enough enthusiastic support in the applause. Too tired to transfer over my notes.  Might do that tomorrow if I'm still keen.