so booming, failed as a middle east on the list at st. johns hopkins school for advanced international studies. and she told me that y'all was rejection of the ballast indian state should not come as a surprise to anyone. well, it's fascinating. in fact, as the national security council spokesman said yesterday, this is not in fact anything new i'm 10 years ago when i was working on secretary terry's is really tough and integration team, promising us in yahoo is the leader of the as well. and he said the same thing to us, he said that israel must be in charge of all security west of the jordan river. and i remember, you know, sitting in our hotel room from jerusalem, kind of sinking into our chairs and the glue of that reality. because we understood that that would really be impossible. so for the past indians, that's when, when the talks really faltered me, now the us has no steady round top pressure on israel over its conduct of the war. and it keeps getting brushed off. how much influence does washington still have always, rarely policy? so i think what's more important is what they