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</html><description>Alon Liel: Syria talks could resume within months of US electionsHa'aretz,&nbsp;Israel&nbsp;&#x2013; Mar 17, 2008 Liel, chairman of the Israel-Syria Peace Society lobby group and former director of Israel's Foreign Ministry, said that in meetings with Republicans close to presumptive presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and with strategists for Democratic hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.haaretz.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D170308/250alon_liel_NITAN_SHORER.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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