elsewhere, to be seen, to be torpedosi torpedoing the palestinian's efforts for statehood. what the americans and tony blair are desperately trying to do in the last 48 hours something all sides have failed to do in the past year, which is to get the pal stin januarys and israelis back around the negotiating table to try and hammer out some final peace settlement. >> john, i guess what i was trying to get at is, by having them go to the security council rather than the general assembly has a whole, looking for say observer status, ala the vatican, but by going to the security council it at least presents, give options to delaying the vote essentially, postponing keeping negotiations going. whether they went to the general assembly it would be an even bigger international rebuke of the u.s. and israel, would it not? >> that is correct. i mean, there is no pain-free option here. if it goes to the security council, my understanding of the proceedings is that due to the