and you don t achieve that through these maneuvers in the security council or through pressuring the reasonable side of the debate, in this case israel. i think fundamentally that we re pursuing an invalid strategy, the two-state solution, i think, has failed. and so i think a lot of this is simply delaying the inevitable, coming to grips with the reality that a separate palestinian state is simply not a viable political entity. jamie: so a year, three years, five years from now will we be having this same conversation, or do you see another way to progress in peace? well, if we keep pursuing the same policy, i think you can almost guarantee we ll still be beating our heads into the same wall. i think you need to look at another alternative. some have called it the three-state solution. give up on the idea of a separate palestinian state, give the gaza strip back to egypt, figure out what the configuration of the west bank will be, let jordan have the pal stint january/arab areas and