i think to some extent feel free to disagree. i ll tell you where i did disagree minorly. i think overall your analysis is correct. the incentive structure that s been created does certainly encourage palestinians to think that negotiations, dipsy, cooperations with israel is a dead end and all that the p.a. has to show is not being able to pay the salaries of public employees in west bank and gaza, except from two months back. and israeli settlement activity continues in all of that. they have little to show for their general approach of trying to reach a negotiated agreement. i m not sure that hamas has achieved much. that s a good point. they claim they do. we should distinguish those two. i want to say the agreements with israel regarding the easing of the blockade and with egypt, are very vague. they re being negotiated today. i mean they re an agreement to,