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Jeremy Ben-Ami responds to breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian talks – UPDATED

January 26, 2012 at 11:57 am

WASHINGTON — J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement in response to the apparent failure of the latest round of Jordanian sponsored talks between Israel and the PLO:

“J Street is gravely concerned by the apparent failure of the latest round of Jordanian-sponsored talks between Israel and the PLO.

While no one had high expectations for these talks, no one should take satisfaction in seeing predicted failure come to pass. The interests at stake – for Israel, the Palestinians, Jordan, the US and the Quartet—are too serious and the consequences of failure too dire.

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