US Secretary of State Kerry meets with Palestinian President Abbas

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Jerusalem Thursday, May 23, 2013. The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from Kerry’s two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. <AP Photo/Jim Young, Pool>