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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad sounded willing to renew peace efforts with Israel. But entreaties by visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Israeli leaders were publicly rebuffed and met with vows of retribution for this week’s bus-stop bombing and mortar attacks on Israel.
Gates made the first trip by a U.S. defense chief to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, after meeting with Israeli leaders to push ahead with the peace process despite the recent flare-up in violence.
