Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is is into intense Mideast shuttle diplomacy to cobble a Mideast ceasefire between Hamas and Israel - being brokered by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi.
This could be a legacy maker or breaker - and President Obama is far enough away on the phone for any plausible deniability of efforts fail.
With thousands of Israeli ground troops massed on the Gaza border and awaiting a possible order to invade, Hillary Rodham Clinton joined other world diplomats in shuttling between Jerusalem, the West Bank and Cairo, trying to piece together a deal that would satisfy the two foes after a week of fighting and mounting casualties.
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