JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima party has decided to make peace talks with the Palestinians its central goal, local newspaper Ma'ariv daily reported on Monday.

   "The Kadima party believes progress of the peace process with the Palestinians is a central goal and will act to advance it in every possible way in order to lay the base for drawing permanent borders for the state of Israel and to achieve peace and quietness," according to the platform of Kadima, cited by the daily.

   Kadima will also give up some land the Jewish state has seized during past wars with Arab countries and help form a Palestinian state, the report added.

   "Finding a solution between the desire to allow any Jew to live anywhere in Israel and the continued existence of Israel as a national Jewish homeland necessitates giving up some parts of Israel," the policy document said.

   But meanwhile, lawmaker Roni Bar-on said at a meeting of Kadima activists that Israel's permanent borders would "hold a united Jerusalem and the Ariel, Gush Etzion and Ma'aleh Adumim settlement blocs (in the West Bank)."

   It is the first time that Kadima declares its guidelines since establishment, stressing solving the Israeli-Palestinian longtime conflict through a two-state solution as stated in the internationally-sponsored roadmap peace plan.

     Recent polls show that the centrist Kadima, which was formed by Sharon after he bolted the rightist Likud party in November, hasthe best chance of winning the March 28 elections.

   Sharon declared that he quit the Likud in order to win a freehand to proceed in peace talks with the Palestinians after the Israeli pullout from the entire Gaza Strip and northern West Bankin September. 

   Although an architect of the Gaza pullout, Sharon has vowed to keep hold of large settlement blocs in the West Bank.  Enditem