  In this paper we continue the development of a model for strong interactions
at high energy, based on two ingredients: CGC/saturation approach and the BFKL
Pomeron. In our approach, the unknown mechanism of confinement of quarks and
gluons, is characterized by several numerical parameters, which are extracted
from the experimental data. We demonstrate that the two channel model,
successfully describes the experimental data, including both the value of the
elastic slope and the energy behavior of the single diffraction cross section.
We show that the disagreement with experimental data of our previous single
channel eikonal model [6] stems from the simplified approach used for the
hadron structure, and is not related to our principal theoretical input, based
on the CGC/saturation approach.
