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By Lesley Wroughton AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Israel on Thursday that it could face a third Palestinian uprising and deepening international isolation if American-brokered peace negotiations failed. Both Israelis and Palestinians have given grim assessments of the lack of progress in their talks, which the United States helped revive last July after a three-year hiatus. Violence has simmered and on Thursday, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian wielding a makeshift firearm in the occupied West Bank. Kerry, speaking in Jordan a day after a visit to Israel, where he appealed for limits on its settlement building in the West Bank, said the negotiations had made "significant progress" in some areas.More...