Kerry Urges End to Rancor in Effort to Save Mideast Talks
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to Israelis and Palestinians to put aside their rancor and work out a peace agreement after mediation efforts failed to resolve the conflict over a scheduled prisoner release.
“You can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make fundamental decisions and compromises,” Kerry said today at the opening of a strategic dialogue with the Algerian government in Algiers. “The leaders need to lead.”