FM Shalom trashes Netanyahu, declines to criticize PM Sharon

Aaron Lerner Date: 14 December 2005

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom trashed MK Binyamin Netanyahu, warning that
his "extremism" would keep away voters from the Likud in a live interview
broadcast on Israel Radio's noon news magazine program.

Shalom was careful to avoid criticize Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when asked
to comment on the Newsweek story that Sharon plans to unilaterally withdraw
from half of Judea and Samaria so that a Palestinian state could be formed
in the vacuum and then divide Jerusalem in a final negotiated settlement.
Shalom would only say that there are former Labor Party members now inside
Sharon's Kadima Party who present a problem.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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