organization's executive committee and legislative council and a longtime friend. thank you very much for joining us. >> good to see you again. >> we've seen you so many times in the region over the years. what is the status right now of these talks, behind the scenes, we're told that quartet, so-called quartet, was not able to reach any agreement on the kind of negotiating strategy that would persuade you and president abbas to change strategy this week and not demand statehood? >> it's not a question of changing strategy or demanding statehood. we have the right to freedom, to dignity, a right to have our own state, our only problem is that we have an occupier that has decided that we have no rights whatsoever and that has decided it can single handily determine the fate of the region, not only israel but palestinian and acted outside and above the law as an occupier, taking our land, building settlements, building apartheid walls and so on. we are saying, after negotiating for 20 years, for two decades,