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JERUSALEM — After nearly two years of frustration and failure, the Obama administration began its Middle East peace efforts anew Monday with its special envoy, George Mitchell, holding talks here on ways to improve the atmosphere between Israel and the Palestinians and ultimately negotiate over the core issues that separate them.
Mitchell met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Monday and was due to see President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank today. He will then meet with the foreign ministers of the Arab League in Cairo on Wednesday.
