as you say, sadat and begin unlikely people to be at the table. to broker peace. different personalities might have had different attributes going in that -- a reason to be more optimistic and may not have accomplished it. mr. yaw hue inetanyahu is said a difficult person, or are the issues so retractable. you're say, correctly, civil rights, came and went, soviet union came and went, this could come and go, but the personalities seem not -- >> this is why i'm trying to create this language for me to explain this. i think within the logic of war, you know, just recently, you know, netanyahu led the strike on georgia aand within the logic of war when you have missiles flying, then you retaliate. but missiles will always fly out of gaza until peace comes. and the other big area of conflict is the islamic civil war we're stepping into the middle of. >> correct. >> and instead of just trying to degrade and eliminate isis, what you really need to be working on is reconciling the two halves of islam. the sunnis and shi'ites. as long as they're in conflict and as long as

shibley telhami, the anwar sadat professor of peace and development at the university of maryland andr of the book "the world through arab eyes." and robert satloff, executive director of the washington institute for near east policy. and back to the rabinovich, i want to get your sense your reaction to what happened yesterday and why? >> what happened was that despite talk about socioeconomic issues happening among the young middle class the dom national issue remains security israelis are worried. they look at iran they look at gaza they look at hezbollah in lebanon they look at the collapsing states around us and mr. netanyahu did a much better job than mr. herzog in portraying himself as the leader who can look after the security of the state and of the individual citizens in the state. he did also outflank the right wing party. if you look at the breakup of the vote, there was not so much a shift from the left to the right but a shift inside the right wing camp. and so they were successful in-- mr. bennett and mr. lieberman and-- his own likud party. and of course he's a con sum