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NEW YORK (JTA)—Benjamin Netanyahu would end Israel’s current negotiations with the Palestinians if elected prime minister, his office said.
A spokeswoman for Netanyahu, the Likud Party candidate for prime minister in elections scheduled for Feb. 10, said Netanyahu believes the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks launched a year ago at a peace summit at Annapolis, Md., have failed, The Associated Press reported.
"It’s premature to talk about a final peace deal, and sharing control of Jerusalem is out of the question," Netanyahu spokeswoman Dina Libster said, adding that the Likud leader believes that talks with the Palestinians should focus on economic issues.
On Monday, the AP reported that Netanyahu said he would continue Israeli-Palestinian peace talks but that negotiating over Jerusalem was out of the question.
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