that can improve the environment and also reassure the israelis this is not just about an effort to deleolegitimate israel and isolate israel and keep it under siege. >> it is important to understand under negotiation this sort of thing would not happen so that gives us the kind of time that the secretary would need to handle the region, in general. and it would reassure the israelis there is some seriousness on the part of the palestinians. >> rose: what else can you do to build confidence? >> well, you know, i have to tell you that i don't think you can do all that much. here is why. i think the mistrust is so deep in the short-term that short of something extraordinary, some agreement that is done in secret, a plan or something that came to rabin and arafat shaking hands it is very difficult to break, and i see that in the polling that i do among israelis and among arabs, we have a majority of people on both sides who don't believe the two state solution will ever happen. this is really in contrast with the years when dennis ross was dealing with it in the 1990s when people assumed it