Jim Jones at American Task Force for Palestine: "... We must move beyond talking about talks..."

"National Security Advisor Jim Jones keynote speaker at American Task Force for Palestine Gala last night. "President Obama is committed to achieve two states ... We must move beyond talking about talks..." Seen among guests: Congressman Robert Wexler, NSC Middle East strategist Dennis Ross, aide Ben Fishman, NSC Middle East senior director Dan Shapiro, Mitchell team's Jennifer Butte-Dahl, State senior advisor Vali Nasr, J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami, UAE Ambassador Youssef al Otaiba; honored UMaryland's/Brookings' Shibley Telhami who recounted growing up in a home without running water and parents who valued learning and opened up their home to people of every faith, arriving in America at 18 with $150, broken English; Amb. Robert Pelletreau Jr. who launched US negotiations with the PLO in Tunis twenty years ago, his counterpart Abu Mazen; the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Fuad Jubran, Prof. Najat Arafat Khelil, founder of the Dialogue Project between American Jewish and Palestinian women. Emcee ATFP's Hussein Ibish..."