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ByJuliePace The Associated Press WASHINGTON Minimizing sharp differences, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed their commitment to seeking elu- sive Middle East peace on Monday, though prospects for an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians appear ever further out of reach. The U.S. and Israeli lead- ers' meeting at the White House marked the first time they had talked face-to-face in more than a year. They have long had a frosty re- lationship, and tensions peaked earlier this year amid Obama's pursuit of an Iran nuclear deal that Netanyahu vigorously op- posed. Monday's meeting was an attempt to reset ties for the final year of Obama's presidency. In comments to reporters before their private talks, they sidestepped their dis- agreement on Iran, with Obama calling it a "narrow issue." "We don't have a dis- agreement on the need to making sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, and we don't have a disagree- ment about us blunting de- stabilizing activities in Iran that may be taking place," Obama said. "So we're going to be looking to make sure we find common ground there." Netanyahu didn't men- tion the Iran matter at all in his public comments. But in their two-hour-long private session, Obama and Netanyahu discussed ways to cooperate to en- sure Iran lives up to its commitments under the deal, said a senior Obama administration official, who wasn't authorized to comment by name and re- quested anonymity. In public, the lead- ers emphasized areas of shared interest, including negotiations on a new se- curity arrangement and the goal of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, even as the two sides grap- ple with fresh outbreaks of violence. Obama said he was fo- cused on "how we can get back on a path toward peace, and how we can make sure that legitimate Palestinian aspirations are met through a political pro- cess, even as we make sure that Israel is able to secure itself." Netanyahu declared, "We have not given up our hope for peace." He reaffirmed his support for a two-state solution, though he gave no ground on the Israelis' longstanding conditions for achieving that outcome. The prime minister's statement followed his ap- parent backtracking dur- ing Israeli elections earlier this year. At the time, U.S. officials said there would be policy ramifications for a Netanyahu shift on state- hood, including potentially easing opposition to Pales- tinians turning to the U.N. Security Council to create a state. On Monday, however, White House officials said Obama focused more on getting Netanyahu to out- line ways to keep confron- tations between Israelis and Palestinians to a minimum in the absence of a long- term solution. "This is certainly an op- portunity for Prime Minis- ter Netanyahu to put for- ward some ideas to move this process toward a two- state solution," White House spokesman Josh Ear- nest said of the meeting. Netanyahu was said to be offering a series of con- fidence-building measures toward the Palestinians, including easing restric- tions on communications, water usage and work per- mits in Israel and on Pales- tinian development in the West Bank. However, Israel has given gave preliminary approval for a new settlement proj- ect in the West Bank, ter- ritory Palestinians are de- manding as part of a future state, documents revealed Monday. Most nations, in- cluding the U.S., view Is- raeli settlements there as illegal or illegitimate and hindering efforts for Pales- tinian statehood. A new round of violence broke out in the region about two months ago. Is- rael has accused Palestin- ian political and religious leaders of inciting the vi- olence, while Palestinians say it's due to a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts. Obama and Netanyahu also discussed the renewal of a 10-year security agree- ment that could result in increased U.S. military as- sistance to Israel. The two leaders agreed Monday that a U.S. team will travel to Israel in early December to start discussions on the agreement, officials said. In the immediate aftermath of the nuclear deal, Netanyahu had refused to discuss the security agreement with the U.S. WHITE HOUSE MEETING Obama,Netanyahuminimizedifferences,renewpeacecall ANDREWHARNIK—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS President Barack Obama shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Monday. By Hamza Al-Soud and Karin Laub The Associated Press AMMAN, JORDAN A Jorda- nian police captain opened fire Monday on instructors at an international police training center in Jordan's capital, killing at least five people, including two Amer- icans, before being shot dead by security forces. It was not clear if there was a political motive to the shooting spree, which also wounded six people, including two Americans. But concern has swirled in staunchly pro-Western Jor- dan over possible revenge attacks by Islamic militants since the country assumed a high-level role in the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State extremist group, which controls large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq. The unprecedented as- sault inside a Jordanian se- curity compound also raised questions about the king- dom's image as an island of relative stability in a turbu- lent region. The shooting took place at the Jordan International Police Training Center in Amman, where Jordanian and foreign instructors, in- cluding Americans, have trained thousands of po- lice officers from the Pales- tinian territories and other parts of the Arab world in recent years. The Jordanian officer opened fire, killing the two Americans and a South Af- rican contractor before be- ing shot dead, government spokesmanMohammedMo- mani said. Two Jordanians were critically wounded and later died, he said. Momani did not release the assailant's name, but a former Jordanian parlia- ment member, Suleiman Saed, identified him as his 29-year-old relative, Anwar Abu Zaid, a captain in the police force. He said the as- sailant's identity was given to him by a senior official in the Public Security Depart- ment. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not autho- rized to brief the media, said eight people died in the at- tack, but Momani would only confirm five. In Washington, President Barack Obama said that "we take this very seriously and will be working closely with the Jordanians to determine exactly what happened." U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the two slain Americans worked for DynCorp Inter- national, a major military contractor, in a program funded by the State De- partment's Bureau of Diplo- matic Security and Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. The two wounded Americans are also civilians, the State Department said. 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