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** FILE ** Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attends a news conference at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak attends a press conference in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 17 2011, where he abruptly announced that he was leaving his Labor Party and forming a new parliamentary faction inside the governing coalition. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), surrounded by bodyguards, arrives at a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photos/Bernat Armangue)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Knesset session on Wednesday. A classified 2009 diplomatic cable disclosed this week tells of secret diplomacy between Israel and Persian Gulf states.