Kerry to meet Netanyahu and Abbas Wednesday

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Israel to continue his effort to haul the Israeli-Palestinian talks out of their impasse. Wednesday, he will meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem. At a wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Tuesday, Kerry said “America would stand by the side of Israel every step of the way.” Netanyahu will raise the Iran issue at their meeting.