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Obama heads to Middle East with low expectations

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President Barack Obama walks past Marine One and heads to the Oval Office Friday at the White House after returning from a trip to the Chicago area.

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President Obama arrives in Jerusalem on Wednesday for his first trip to Israel as president. His first priority will be resetting his oft-troubled relationship with now-weakened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and evaluating the new coalition government Netanyahu laboriously cobbled together.