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** FILE ** U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice leaves a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, with Sens. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, and Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, about the Benghazi terrorist attack. (Associated Press)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, second from left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second from right, prepare to start a meeting on Palestine, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Palestinians are expected to win U.N. recognition as a state, even as the U.S., Israel's closest ally, mounts an aggressive campaign to head off the General Assembly vote. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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People march in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, listens as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a meeting on Palestine, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Palestinians are expected to win U.N. recognition as a state, even as the U.S., Israel's closest ally, mounts an aggressive campaign to head off the General Assembly vote. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Israeli right wing activists demonstrate against the Palestinian U.N. bid for observer state status, in front of the U.N. headquarters in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. Hebrew on sign reads: "Abu Mazen's workers." (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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A Palestinian girl waves a flag during a rally supporting the Palestinian U.N. bid for observer state status, in the West bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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People hold a giant Palestinian flag during a rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

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CORRECTS NAME TO WATERS IN LAST SENTENCE - Roger Waters, center, founding member of Pink Floyd, meets U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second from right, sits waiting for the start of a meeting on Palestine, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 in New York. Palestinians are expected to win U.N. recognition as a state, even as the U.S., Israel's closest ally, mounts an aggressive campaign to head off the General Assembly vote. Waaters was on a list of speakers at the meeting observing the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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A girl with the Palestinian flag painted on her face attends a rally supporting the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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A Hassidic Jew holds a Palestinian flag and a sign during a rally supporting the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Smoke rises on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, from the Hamas government building known as Abu Khadra, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two days earlier in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. In Israel, a poll showed that about half of Israelis think their government should have continued its military offensive against Hamas. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans during a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Palestinians, along with other members of Romania's Muslim community, staged a protest against the latest Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Palestinian Hamas militants carry the covered body of Nidal Hassan during funerals for five Hamas members in Mugharka, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. The five were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building belonging to the Abu Kamil family the previous day, Palestinian health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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A Palestinian woman walks past graffiti depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Palestinian officials say Arafat's remains will be exhumed on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, to enable foreign experts to take samples as part of a probe into his death. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at U.N. headquarters on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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A Palestinian child holds a Kalashnikov weapon from a Hamas member (not pictured) during the funeral of Hamas member Joudeh Shamallah in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. According to family members, Shamallah was badly injured during the latest Israeli-Hamas fight and died from wounds Saturday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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An Israeli soldier (left) hugs a comrade (center) to congratulate him for his birthday at a staging area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Palestinians hold pictures of President Mahmoud Abbas and wave flags during a rally supporting the Palestinian U.N. bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Bratslav Hasidic sect who gathered to show support for Israeli forces, dance atop a tank in southern Israel, close to the Israel-Gaza Strip border, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)