Qatar wants to broaden Muslim-Christian forum to include Jews.

DOHA: A conference on Muslim-Christian Dialogue opened Thursday in Qatar with an official call to include Judaism.

Qatari Premier Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani set the stage for two days of inter-faith talks by drawing parallels between those who believe in the oneness of God.

“Perhaps it is wise to widen the dialogue to a Muslim-Christian-Jewish dialogue,” next year, he told the gathering of 200 delegates from around the world.

Officials in the maverick Gulf state, which opened commercial ties with Israel in 1996, have, off-the-record, said Doha intends to invite leading rabbis for the 2005 conference, the third in the series started here in 2003.

The cancelation of a conference called “One hundred Imams and Rabbis For Peace” set to take place in Ifrane, Morocco, next Monday appears to have spurred the Qataris.

Morocco called off the talks after major Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.