[ Reuters] Adam Entous - U.S. Secretary of State Rice ended her sixth trip to the region this year with no sign of progress in nudging Israel and the Palestinians toward a peace deal by the end of the year. Israeli officials were cool to suggestions, backed by the Palestinians, that Rice hold more intensive three-way meetings with Israelis and Palestinians. A senior Palestinian official said Prime Minister Olmert and Foreign Minister Livni "insisted on bilateral meetings." Mark Regev, the prime minister's spokesman, said Olmert believed it would be "difficult" to reach agreement on the sensitive issue of Jerusalem by the end of President Bush's term.
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