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It’s certainly worth trying again: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that President Obama will soon lay out a new comprehensive plan for Arab-Israeli peace talks, part of a larger reframing of U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Obama’s attempt at direct Israel-Palestinian peace talks last year was a failure, and the president is currently under pressure to come up with a new initiative in the wake of the Palestinian campaign to be recognized as a state under the United Nations. Clinton’s remarks to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a gathering of Arab and U.S. policymakers sponsored by Qatar and the Brookings Institute, also came on the heels of revolutions that have rocked the Arab world in Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, and Libya.