He asked me to come down today, because he knew I was going to -- Hillary and I were appearing before the Brookings SabanForum on the Middle East tonight.
Over the weekend, opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak were in Washington for the annual Middle East peace process conclave at the Brookings Institute's SabanForum.
Echoing Barak's assertion at the SabanForum that being a Zionist means supporting a Palestinian state, Livni argued that by surrendering to the Palestinians, and agreeing to every US demand, Israel is advancing its own existential interests.