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Israel Calls for Understandings with U.S.
[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - Israel and the U.S. "can and need" to "coordinate and reach understandings" on all the issues on the regional agenda, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told visiting U.S Middle East Envoy George Mitchell on Wednesday evening. Government sources said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is scheduled to meet Mitchell on Thursday, was keen on working together with the U.S. envoy, and that this trip was an opportunity to "touch base with one another and find the common ground to move forward." Both Israeli and U.S. officials have said there was wide understanding in Washington that the new Netanyahu government was still in its "policy review" stage. Mitchell, who is projected to set up an office in Israel by July, is expected to visit the region about every three weeks. It is anticipated that Netanyahu will complete his "policy review" by the end of May, when he is expected to meet with President Obama in Washington.