If you are looking to find out what happened in Hillary Clinton’s meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu, only a handful of people can provide you with an accurate account. Even the reports listing the participants were imperfect. Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Sallai Meridor, was not in the room. Nor were former New York Consul General Alon Pinkas and former Ambassador Zalman Shoval in attendance. In short: many people were waiting with Netanyahu for the meeting, but only two Israelis were in the room with him: Professor Uzi Arad, rumored to be Israel’s future head of the National Security Council, and attorney Yitzhak Molcho, who worked with Netanyahu when he was Prime Minister in the late Nineties. On Clinton’s side, the two other participants were U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham and special envoy, George Mitchell.

There were two sticky issues that turned this meeting into an especially interesting one:

1. Netanyahu and the Clinton family weren’t the best of friends when Netanyahu and Bill Clinton were in power.

2. While Netanyahu does not accept a two-state solution — giving Kadima its main excuse for not joining his coalition — Clinton made sure during her visit to repeatedly recommit the U.S. to a two-state formulation.

How did these two old acquaintances deal with the two elephants in the room?

The meeting, many sources tell me, was friendly and cheerful in tone. Netanyahu had no reason to open old wounds, and Clinton, in her first visit, was not looking for a fight. She came with a couple of items on her agenda — more aid to Gaza (not Bibi’s problem yet, he isn’t in power) to which she added criticism of Israel’s intention to demolish some fifty Arab houses built illegally in Jerusalem (again, not yet Bibi’s problem). But she had no intention of getting into the philosophical question of “the two state solution, pro and con.” Her public statements were clear enough. His position is also clear, if more nuanced. In the meeting, as far as I could discern, the issue was not raised at all. What can be learned from this? At least, at this stage, these two experienced leaders aren’t looking for a fight — they are looking to find ways to work together.