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Clinton Confers with Israeli Leaders About Syria, Egypt, Iran
JERUSALEM —With Egypt unsettled, Syria in crisis and Iran’s nuclear program raising widespread fears, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton conferred here Monday with Israeli leaders to reaffirm U.S. ties and allay anxieties about the rapidly changing dynamics in the region.
In her first trip to Israel since 2010 and likely her last as secretary of state, Clinton met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks on a range of issues, the most pressing of which was probably Iran’s nuclear program.
But the discussions also touched on the dangers of an escalating civil war in neighboring Syria and other changes ushered in by last year’s Arab Spring uprisings.
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