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Netanyahu Expected to Fire Labor Ministers (End Of National Unity Government Alert)
Arutz Sheva ^ | 1/17/2011 | Arutz Sheva

Posted on 01/17/2011 3:21:08 AM PST by goldstategop

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to fire the Labor Ministers in the government: Braverman, Herzog and Ben-Eliezer.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arutzsheva; benjaminnetanyahu; israel; laborparty; likud; netanyahu
The Israel Labor Party is leaving the Israeli government. Ehud Barak's new faction will stay. This development means the end of Israel's National Government - it will now be a Likud-led one.
1 posted on 01/17/2011 3:21:11 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

With one eye on the impending Hezbollah takeover of Lebanon - this sounds almost like ‘clearing the deadwood’ to have a unified Leadership for war-fighting...


2 posted on 01/17/2011 3:26:11 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Uncle Ike

‘Zactly what I was thinking.


3 posted on 01/17/2011 4:04:39 AM PST by steveyp
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To: Uncle Ike

Exactly. Fire them so that they cannot symbolically quit over some action in Lebanon. The Middle East is ready to boil over. At least one leader recognizes that fact and is getting ready for the fight to come.


4 posted on 01/17/2011 4:24:29 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP

This is shaping up to be a different war from the last few dust-ups —

I have the feeling that a Bibi-led Government isn’t going to listen to the ‘Proportionate Response’ squawl that the “International Community” used with such effect in the past....


5 posted on 01/17/2011 4:36:11 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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6 posted on 01/17/2011 8:02:18 AM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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