Colin Powell pledged the United States would stay involved in efforts to secure an Israeli- Palestinian cease-fire. “Even though things have not gone well in recent weeks, we cannot walk away from it,” the U.S. secretary of state told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
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