FM Tzipi Livni: IDF to keep fighting terror during peace talks

      Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni visited with Israel Defense Forces commanders in the West Bank on Monday, telling them that Israel would continue to act against terrorism during the negotiating period with the Palestinians. "Israel has no intention of throwing they key over to the other side and hoping for the best," she said. "For this reason, we must simultaneously work to alter the situation in the field and persist in the struggle against terrorism, as well as the formation of effective institutions and security groups on the Palestinian side in order to create an effective Palestinian governing body to make agreements with." "Only in this way can we implement the agreements that we make during the negotiations," she added. "As foreign minister, I have said in the past that when Israel is required to fight for security it must do so, even at the price of international criticism," Livni added.(00,50)