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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday the 20th of May.

I'm David Plotzier, Eddorf Slate, here in Slate, D.C. Central with not just John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, but also Emily Bazelon. Emily, welcome to Washington. Well, thank you. How do you find Washington? Unchanged. What was the last time we were together? Purdue? Yeah.

Purdue.

Yes. Yeah. Well, that's so exciting. It is nice. And in honor of that, we're going to have three topics because there are three of us in the room. We're going to have three topics of discussion this week. As opposed to normally. Normally, we have three because that's just the way we do it. We're going to talk about President Obama's Middle East speech.

We're going to talk about President Obama's Middle East speech.

We're going to talk about the latest news in the Republican presidential race,

which I'm not going to say finally got started this week, which I have said every week for months.

And we're going to talk about the sexual escapades of powerful men, notably Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-K-K-D-S-K. Can we just agree? We'll just call them DSK from this moment on. Excellent. Yeah, although I'd like to pronounce it. You did a good job. I'd like to reproduce that pronunciation you just did. But since we can't, let's just let that stand. Well, in the pollen season, we all need to clear our throat. So it might, anyway, go ahead.

And then we'll. pronunciation you just did. But since we can't, let's just let that stand. Well, in the pollen season,

we all need to clear our throat. So it might, anyway, go ahead. And then we'll chatter. So, let's talk about President Obama's Middle East speech. Emily, apparently... He threw Israel under the bus. He threw Israel under the bus. It didn't sound like it to me, but did it sound like it to you? No, he didn't throw Israel under the bus.

He said that there should be a two-state solution with He threw Israel under the bus. It didn't sound like it to me, but did it sound like it to you? No, he didn't throw Israel under the bus.

He said that there should be a two-state solution with the 1967 borders adjusted with land swaps.

This is exactly the deal that everyone has known needs to happen for at least 12 years, 20 years, 40 years.

And yet it was seen somehow as a slight shift in U.S.

policy because I guess the president himself, not just Obama, but also Bush, hadn't mentioned the idea of a land swap. But of course there has to be a land swap. It's the only way to deal

with the settlement blocks that are actually close to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

near the Green Line, the 1967 line, as opposed to all the far more problematic, really

noxious settlements that are spread throughout the West Bank, which Israel has to evacuate.

Was it the first time you mentioned Land Swap or the first time somebody has said 67 Borders?

No, 67 Borders has been on the table. First of all, it is the UN resolution. No, no, I know.

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