>>> and we're back with daniel levy, brettsteins, rula jibrail, and elliott abrams.truck in the "new york times" this week that with all this stalk about iran and the way in which the subject has been -- as dan was saying, redefined by bebe, the palestinian issue has just fallen by the wayside and the article described how the palestinian leadership was almost kind of so marginalized they didn't know what to do. >> well, it's ru. if you look at the obama-netanyahu white house appearance together in the oval office, the word palestine did not escape the lips of either man. nor did it get mentioned by netanyahu in his big apaic speech. i think this is partly because they're expecting not only the american election this year and a possible israeli election this year. nothing will happen until 2013. i think there is a certain satisfaction that they're off the front page because if they were on it, they would not know what to do. >> dan, isn't it fair to say that obama kind of miscalculated, whatever your position on the issue, he got out maneuvered by the israeli governm