. >> let's go to james zogby. the ball is in the palestinian court. do you agree with that?no, i don't. i think that's a very serious exaggeration of the leverage palestinians have. they really have none in this case. and they looked to the u.s. president to balance the scale. at this point, abbas has a u.n. resolution is about the only thing he has in his camp. he has no -- he's become a dependency, dependent upon foreign aid to sustain an ever-dwindling authority. they have become a police force governing the terrorists. alan, let me finish. they have become a police force governing the territories. but they've gotten no payment back. and this issue is bigger than the west bank. it's about palestinian nationhood, it's about the right of palestinians to have the same respect as a nation that israel demands for itself. and, frankly, that's not on the table. i would say to you that what the u.s. has to do, when the president is done with this trip, come back, hopefully earning the confidence of the israeli people, trying to restore some confidence on the palestinian side, whi