Meeting security concerns and providing humanitarian aid for the Palestinians are crucial to a Middle East peace accord, Colin Powell said. The U.S. secretary of state broke away from diplomatic meetings Monday to brief the Anti-Defamation League’s annual leadership conference in Washington about current efforts aimed at getting the two sides back to the negotiating table.
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