mr. am bas dor, a pleasure to see you. you have mentioned of two measures that vick s thas that place, and one is the jordanian relations and the other one that has to do with the palestinian elections and is it my understanding that there is any degree of coordination between them and any possibility of conflict between these two separate initiatives? >> always a pleasure to see you as well. not surprising you have asked what i think is both an interesting and kind of compelling question. once again, i will say that i don't know. i mean, you know, one of the things that again when it comes to this region, the notion of humility is not only called for but the readiness from time to time to actually say that you don't know, which is oftentimes an understated reality in this city, the truth is that i think that there's -- there's often good reasons to say you don't know. but i will come back to what i said earlier. you know, and you follow this as closely as anybody. we know how long the issue of reconciliation has been disc