Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice departed Sunday for the Middle East , on a trip billed by aides as an effort to bolster the embattled Palestinian Authority president , Mahmoud Abbas , in his struggles with the militant Islamic group Hamas , and to consult with Arab allies on Iran 's nuclear program and the turmoil in Iraq .
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