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I think to some extent -- >> feel free to disagree. >> i'll tell you where i did disagree minorly. i think overall your analysis is correct. the incentive structure that's been created does certainly encourage palestinians to think that negotiations, dipsy, cooperations with israel is a dead end and all that the p.a. has to show is not being able to pay the salaries of public employees in west bank and gaza, except from two months back. and israeli settlement activity continues in all of that. they have little to show for their general approach of trying to reach a negotiated agreement. i'm no...

And the army is, look, you let us do your thing and we'll let you do your thing, as long as the situation doesn't get out of hand. the situation got out of hand and the army came and said we're protecting the revolution. no reason something like that couldn't happen again. >> as long as it doesn't jeopardize the funding. one of the many reasons we shouldn't exaggerate to much what this decree is going to do is because of the conversation i had with a revolutionary very early on in this process. i said look, are you afraid that with the military still in charge that we're going to go right back...

Been cynically exploited by virtually ever arab government. but that doesn't mean that it isn't the issue that arabs across the board. across generations, across jenders, religions, across geographic space, across class lines care about the most -- it's the prism of pain through which they view international relations, it is true that the arab spring has focused attention on egypt and libya and on syria and the palestinian issue hasn't been sort of dominatele the front pages of the arab newspapers the way that it has. but that doesn't mean that it isn't the great back story. that it isn't the ...

Time. you had eight years of an administration that really gave up on trying to play the arbiter role, at which point the figure leaf kind of came away. the administration did a great job actually tactically, playing both of those roles in a way that they hadn't done at all during the first term, sending the secretary of state out to be the arbiter while the president could give the defender of israel speeches like that that's a tactical solution that doesn't get anywhere near the long-term structural problem that it isn't the same middle east that it was five years ago. what do you do instead...

>> you're sort of correct. muhammad morsi gets to decide what the law is. he's the executive and the legislature in egypt. so he gets to issue amendments to the temporary constitution that governs egypt, and that's what he's done so far. there are a bunch of people that are supposed to be writing a more permanent charter, but they've been selected by an islamist dominated parliament that's now dissolved. so the liberals are feeling that the constitution writing process is not going in the direction that will produce something that all egyptians want. so they have found that their closest ally ...