U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves his plane as he arrives in Amman March 26, 2014. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke from a visit to Italy on Wednesday to try to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, even as Arab leaders declared they would never meet Israel's core demand to be recognised as a Jewish state.
Kerry flew to Jordan to ask Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to commit to extending the negotiations, just days before Israel is supposed to release a final group of Palestinian prisoners as a confidence-building gesture.
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