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Remarks by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to the 2005 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy ConferenceThank you very much. Thank you, Lonny. Welcome to Washington for this extraordinary AIPAC conference. Im told that the attendance far _ any other conference, and its always been one of the biggest gatherings that Washington _ every year. So I congratulate you for being here in these numbers with this energy and _. I also thank my friend Bernice, who has served so well on behalf of AIPAC, and congratulate Howard Friedman, the _ president. I thank Howard Kohr, your executive director; Amy Friedkin; and everyone who works so hard for AIPAC not just when there is a great _, like this conference, but every single day, working with us in the Congress working here in Washington. I want to take just a few minutes to discuss some of the _ challenges facing the United States, Israel and our world today. As you know better than most, events in the Middle East are absolutely _ to our hope for a safer, more secure world, a world in which every nation is free from the threat of global_. And a strong, lasting relationship between the United States and Israel is essential to our efforts to build that world of peace and security. As all of us know, our future here in this country is _ with the future of Israel and the Middle East. Now there is a lot that we could talk about, and obviously much has been discussed. But in the short period that I have been given the honor of _ you, I want to start by focusing on our deep and lasting bonds between the United States and Israel. Now, these are bonds that are more than shared interests. These are bonds _ in a common struggle for human rights, for democracy, for freedom. These are bonds that predate the creation of the state of Israel, that really predate the creation of the United States because they are rooted in fundamental beliefs and values about the _ and rights of men and women to live in freedom, free from fear, free from_. And there is no doubt that these incredibly strong bonds and values will remain as the _ of our relationship with our democratic friend and ally, Israel. Now, Israel is not only, however, a friend and ally for us, it is a _ of what democracy can and should mean. It is, after all, a _ democracy. It is, as many of us know from personal experiences, a very _ democracy with many points of view, and those are expressed with great frequency and_. So if people in the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel, which has been and remains a true, faithful democracy. But we know that the goal, the important, essential goal of a democratizing Middle East is _, and it is not without _. A few months ago, I went for the second time to Iraq and Kuwait and Afghanistan and Pakistan, and I returned home with hopefulness about what I had seen and learned, but also with a sense of _about how we should proceed. In Iraq I saw firsthand the daily challenges confronting the Iraqi people. I met with a number of our troops, the brave young men and women who are on freedoms frontlines in Iraq. I met with our _ representatives in the embassy and other agencies who are also risking their lives to help the Iraqi people. And I met with representatives of the former _ Iraqi government and the newly elected Iraqi government, as well as private Iraqi citizens. Now I came away with several _ impressions. First, no matter what one thinks about events that have _in Iraq, there is no doubt that the American military has performed_, with professionalism, and that every young man and woman who wears the uniform of our country deserves our support, whether they be active duty, guard, or _troop. You know, it is on trips like that - despite the often dangerous circumstances, I wish I could bring every one of my _ - all 19 million of them and any others who could come - to see firsthand. I flew from Baghdad to Fallujah in a Blackhawk helicopter; met with the Marines who had liberated Fallujah from the _ and terrorists. I met with many others of our Marines and soldiers who are _to their mission to try to bring freedom to the people of Iraq. They, as well as the troops I saw in Kuwait and in Afghanistan, are committed to this _ belief that people deserve the right to be free, deserve the right to select their own government, deserve the right to _ and plan for a better future for themselves and their children. I hope that each of you, as you travel through your states and communities, will make it a point to thank these young people, because theyre paying a very high price: 1,600-plus lost their lives; thousands and thousands have returned home _ injured. Because of the advances in battlefield medicine and the new body armor that our troops wear, many are surviving injuries that would have left previous _ of young men and women dead. So there is no doubt that America has started down a _, with blood and treasure, to try to create the conditions for democracy and freedom in the Middle East - which has consequences for the entire_, for our security, and certainly for Israels. At this critical time in this _ situation we find ourselves in, I think its important to recognize the extraordinary stand that Prime Minister Sharon and the democratically elected government of Israel have taken as they face the risks and challenges of _ and as they try to deal with the newly elected Palestinian leadership. The prime minister - whom I am pleased to note will follow me to this stage - and the state of Israel that he has devoted his entire life to serving are taking a tremendous risk. I believe it is our _ as friends and supporters and allies of Israel to support Israels efforts for peace, _ and security. Now, this means doing more than providing Israel with _ _ so that it can remain strong in the face of _ threats. We must also demand that President Abbas _ the structures of terror that the Palestinian leadership has employed for so long. You know, in a democracy, even a _ democracy, leaders must be held accountable. And President Abbas must be held _ for the actions taking place under his leadership. I know that you are asking your _ and representatives to _ on to a letter to President Bush about this, and Im proud to support these efforts because there can be no doubt that as Israel and its democratic government take these steps and we support them, there has to be reciprocity on the other side as well. And making progress toward peace and security also requires the end of the _ of hate and incitement that is still officially _ by the Palestinian Authority. Now, I was relieved to learn this week that the Palestinian Authority removed the _ of the Elders of Zion from its website. Reportedly, it had been included on the website under the _ history of Zionism, but what was it doing there in the first place even though we are relieved that it is no longer there? We must continue to be _ about monitoring hate and _ and anti-Semitism, not only by the Palestinian Authority but throughout the Arab world. Saudi textbooks characterize Jews as_. Iranian news reports, obviously representing the opinion of their government, have lent _ to Holocaust _. This is an issue that all of us need to be concerned about. And five years ago, I stood with my friend, Elie Wiesel, to _ this incitement, this violence, this anti-Semitism in Palestinian textbooks. And Ive been working on this _ because to me it is one of those basic issues that - how do we expect to have a democratically elected Palestinian government if their textbooks are still _ such hatred, and if we allow this dehumanizing _ to go unchallenged. Because what is happening is young minds are being _ with this anti-Semitism, and that is going to run _ to what we hope can happen over the next years as we do work for peace and stability. So we must continue to shine a bright spotlight on these messages of hatred and these _ for _ in these textbooks and on the media that take young minds and _ and _ them and create a new generation of terrorists and _. About a year and a half ago, I held a _ with Senator Specter on the Palestinian media, and I _ the Palestinian Authority representative about this issue, whom we had invited to come and address the Senate committee. I urged him to acknowledge that when it comes to children, whoever those children are, _ them from hate and violence should be the number one _ of their families and their governments and the entire global community to prevent this hatred from _. Using children as _ in a political process is _ to child abuse, and we must say it has to end now! And, of course, that infection is_, and it can spread _ the Palestinian territories. It can spread into other parts of the Arab world, and it can _ what goes on there. And of course, one of the areas I am deeply concerned about is Iran, and its _ of nuclear weapons, because a nuclear-armed Iran would shake the foundation of global security to its very _. Israel would be most immediately and _ threatened by this development, but Israel would not be alone. Knowing of Irans historic and present _ to terrorist networks, how would we feel, here in America, if the Iranians could start producing nuclear weapons at will? How would the _ feel if Iran could start producing nuclear weapons at will? So let us be _ clear. A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, but it is not just unacceptable to Israel and to the United States. It must be unacceptable to the _ world, starting with the European governments and people. I know that during your conference and in the _ that you will be doing on Capitol Hill, youre trying to draw attention to the threat that is _ by a nuclear Iran. And I commend you for these efforts; this is one of our most serious security and foreign _ priorities. And we need to make working with our allies to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon a top _. Now one of the terrorist groups that Iran supports is Hezbollah. And we know that Hezbollah poses a direct and _ risk to the stability of the Middle East. Syrias _ from Lebanon - which is very good news for the Lebanese people - also creates an opportunity for Hezbollah to _ _. So we need to remain _ about the terrorist threat and work to stop the _ of support to Hezbollah from Syria and Iran. And we need to convince our European allies of Hezbollahs threat to order in the region and to the _ world, and convince them to _ Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. And the Europeans must do more to cut off the funding and the fund-_ that goes on in Europe for Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad as soon as possible. Now, there are many other important and _ issues that must be on our _, but I know that as you travel to the Hill to meet with your representatives and senators, you will be presenting a very thoughtful and _ analysis of these and other challenges we face. I thank you for not only being willing to stand up for our values and our relationship with Israel, but also to take your responsibilities as citizens seriously, to lobby and to _, to persuade and to _, to discuss these critical issues with all who will listen. We are living at an extraordinary moment in history. There are some days when I am very _, and there are other days, I have to confess, when Im pessimistic. I guess that just goes with the _. But what I am absolutely convinced of is that our common values, values shared and _ by our country and by Israel, are the right values, the values that everyone should have an opportunity to be _ to and to understand and, hopefully, to _. There is no other _ in the world that, as Tom Friedman said, has been _. We can communicate with each other; we can be transported over long distances quickly; we can follow events in other places far away. And theref