JERUSALEM, April 16 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a visiting U.S. envoy on Thursday that his government would condition talks over Palestinian statehood on the Palestinians first recognising Israel as a Jewish state. "Israel expects the Palestinians to first recognise Israel as a Jewish state before talking about two states for two peoples," a senior official in Netanyahu's office quoted the new prime minister as telling George Mitchell, U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem; Writing by Adam Entous, Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
A child walks beside photographs of Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel, during a protest calling for their release outside the International Committee of the Red Cross building in east Jerusalem April ...
