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Kerry Seeks Deal to Sustain Israeli-Palestinian Talks
(Bloomberg) Calev Ben-David and Terry Atlas - Secretary of State John Kerry returns to the Middle East on Thursday, aiming to get Israelis and Palestinians to agree on the contours of a final peace accord. Kerry won't present a U.S. plan that would be imposed on the parties, a senior U.S. State Department official said. Instead, he will offer proposals to bridge gaps that emerged during about 20 Israeli-Palestinian negotiating sessions. Kerry will be shuttling between Abbas and Netanyahu during his visit. The State Department official suggested the U.S. was open to the Palestinian demand that border negotiations be based on the frontiers Israel held before the 1967 war. Netanyahu has rejected any explicit reference to the 1967 lines, saying it would create indefensible borders.