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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How Kerry’s Peace Plan Failed

    Secretary of State John Kerry has left the Middle East after failing to achieve a cease fire between Israel and Hamas. But if we look back just a few months, there was real hope for a comprehensive Palestinian-Israeli peace deal. What happened?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 29, 2014 • 1 min read

    Secretary of State John Kerry has left the Middle East after failing to achieve a cease fire between Israel and Hamas. But if we look back just a few months, there was real hope for a comprehensive Palestinian-Israeli peace deal. What happened? The New Republic has published a lengthy investigation into how close the sides got to an agreement and what went wrong.

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    Failed Peace Plans, Smaller Airplane Seats, and More
    1. 0:00How Kerry’s Peace Plan FailedYou’re reading this
    2. 17:20Amazon Grows, But Not Profits
    3. 26:40Airline Profits Soar
    4. 33:41Designing Airplanes With More Seats
    5. 42:46Tracking Your Teen Driver
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