US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas this week in a bid to ease tensions that have erupted in a surge of deadly Palestinian terror attacks and violence in Jerusalem, the West Bank and at the Gaza border.
Kerry scheduled talks with Netanyahu in Germany and then, after a meeting on Syria in an as-yet undetermined location, intends to see Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah in the Mideast, he said Sunday. (READ MORE)