During his recent trip to Ramallah and Tel Aviv, US Secretary of State John Kerry failed to achieve any real breakthroughs in the stagnant negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis, despite the satisfaction expressed by the two sides on the round of talks that he had with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the one hand, they do not want to cut the remaining, tenuous ties between them. On the other, they are extremely keen not to anger the US administration at the beginning of its second term.
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