In Morocco, Tzipi Livni backs Mideast talks

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TANGIERS, Morocco — Opposition chief Tzipi Livni reiterated her support Friday for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world.

However, speaking at a forum in the coastal city of Tangiers devoted to conflict resolution, Livni said she would not countenance the establishment of a "terrorist" state as she also took aim at the Islamist movement Hamas.

"I believe we can put an end to the conflict based on a two-state solution", she said in comments translated into French, adding it was vital that dialogue between the two sides is resumed.

Livni said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was not about religion, regardless of the efforts of the Islamists of Hamas to portray it as such, but rather a nationalist struggle.

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