Obama plans listening tour of Israel

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Hanan Ashrawi, a longtime Palestinian legislator, said that while Secretary of State John F. Kerry clearly is interested in reviving the peace talks, "the jury is still out on whether Obama is going to give him the full backing he needs."

She said that if Obama "doesn’t have a clear objective with a practical working plan and a binding timeline, it will be just treading water again" and that "he’d be better off not meddling at all."

Palestinian expectations, she said, "are extremely low."

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