you, another big thing obama is dealing with is israel. meet with prime minister netanyahu soon. you were just in israel. what is your sense of, you know, what is the state of play? >> i have a very simple view about the history of arab-israeli relations -- war, time out, war, time-out, war, time-out, going back to 1948. and the whole history of arab-israeli relations is israel did better with its time-outs than arabs. it was more productive of its time-outs. now what's new, as strategically new today is that israel bought its early time-outs for 30 years with conventional wars against conventional states. it bought the current time-out with three wars, one against yasser arafat's corrupt autocracy, one against his bulla in lebanon and one against hamas in gaza. it bought those time-outs with a very unconventional war against