How about we do half a dozen of them in prime time, head-to-head, no interlocutors?
And this: Obama needs to work harder on overcoming Palestinian division, a prerequisite for peace, rather than playing the no-credible-interlocutor Israeli game.
Friday's statement said that Colonel Qaddafi was "no longer an interlocutor" for the European Union, and described the transitional national council in Benghazi as "a" — rather than the — "political interlocutor".
They argue that until Israelis and Palestinians are ready for a settlement, no American interlocutor can create peace for them.
I sense some Israeli realization at last that this course — the terror-propagating Gaza sardine can, the ad-hominem outrage of the reaction to the Goldstone report on Gaza, the facile recourse to disproportionate force, the repetitive "no Palestinian interlocutor" complaints, the too spin-doctored slogans of constant existential threat — leads only to a dead end.
A fractious array of opposition groups offers no clear interlocutor with Assad's negotiators.
He seemed frustrated that he no longer has an interlocutor in Washington.
Even American officials, who continue to stress that a political solution to Chechnya must be sought, now seem to believe that Mr Maskhadov is no longer "an acceptable interlocutor".
There was no need to spend capital, unless you had an interlocutor who could deliver the Palestinian people toward peace.
With Arafat off the scene, not only will there be no effective Palestinian interlocutor, but the chances of reaching a lasting settlement based on partition along the 1967 borders are likely to disappear.
