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President Obama Visits Middle East (28 images)

Obama in Israel and the Middle East for a three-day visit in which he is meeting both Israeli and Palestinian leaders as his first visit as president.



U.S. President Barack Obama, accompanied by Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, on March 22, 2013. At the memorial, Obama said there is a collective obligation of the world to act against racism and anti-Semitism. Obama is in the final day of his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. UPI/Amos Ben Gershom/GPO
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U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as the Secret Service provides security during a visit to Mount Herzl on the west side of Jerusalem, Israel on March 22, 2013. Mount Herzl is Israel's national cemetery and is named after Theodor Herzl, who was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. Obama is in the final day of his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. UPI/Kobi Gideon/GPO
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U.S. President Barack Obama lays a wreath and a stone from the grounds of the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington at the gravesite of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Jerusalem, Israel on March 22, 2013. Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by Jewish extremist upset at Rabin for his efforts to make peace with the Palestinians. Obama is in the final day of his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. UPI/Mark Neyman/GPO
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reflect during a visit to Mount Herzl on the west side of Jerusalem, Israel on March 22, 2013. Mount Herzl is Israel's national cemetery and is named after Theodor Herzl, who was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. Obama is in the final day of his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. UPI/Kobi Gideon/GPO
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