let's get some more now. martin indyk is the former u.s. special envoy to the israeli/palestinian peace talks. now vice president for foreign policy at the brookingss institution in washington. thanks for joining us. i know you've been very much involved in the effort to revive the peace process. you stepped down last month as secretary kerry's special envoy. why did you give up? >> we haven't given up. by no means. secretary has made very clear that we're on pause. the president has taken the same position. i stepped down because i was brought in on leave from brookings to do the negotiations. at the moment, there aren't negotiations but the president and secretary have made clear if we get negotiations again, they'd like me to come back. i'd be happy to do that. we tried very hard for nine months. and we made some progress in terms of developing bridging ideas. it was a very serious process of