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US Secretary of State nominee John Kerry: “My prayer is that perhaps this can be a moment where we can renew some kind of effort to get the parties [Israel and the Palestinians] into a discussion, to have a different track than we’ve been on over the course of the last couple of years… So much of what we need to aspire to achieve and what we need globally … all of this is tied to what can and doesn’t happen with respect to Israel/Palestine.”