Israeli/palestinian context. you take the situation on the temple mount. it involves muslims worldwide and jews worldwide. you've got a lot of parties involved. jordan, morocco and the arab world so forth. probably many of these issues to be decided bilaterally. security issues and so forth. the parties have proved to have been unable until now to consummate negotiations without outside help. the united states used to play this role. perhaps we need to expand the circle to include other international players. i think it's disingenuous at this moment to suggest if we only left these two parties...