in your old position today what did kerry's speech do for your job? help, hurt, do nothing? >> well, help some and hurt with others. and still others do nothing. i think one of the problems is, one of the reasons i thought the president should have vetoed the resolution was that the purpose of american policy is to bring the two sides together in negotiation. >> right. >> i think they're now both move income option directions that are for both of them self-destructive. palestinians now feel validated in their getting a state through international institutions, and to me, that's a mirage. they might get a nominal state, but they can't get a real state on the ground without the full participation by israel, and that will only come through negotiations. so it moves them away by giving them this other incentive. for israel, already isolated in the muslim world, which now