[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - Senior White House adviser Dennis Ross will join an already crowded list of top U.S. officials traveling to Israel next week, a step interpreted positively in Jerusalem as an attempt by the Obama administration to engage more constructively with Jerusalem. Ross will come in the same week as Middle East envoy George Mitchell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Adviser James Jones. Asked about the sudden surge in high-level U.S. visitors, one senior Israeli diplomatic official said, "It's about time. It's much better that the two countries discuss the issues between them face-to-face, and not through the media."
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