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Yisrael Beiteinu may quit gov't if PM starts talks after summit

By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Ehud Olmert

Yisrael Beiteinu might consider resigning from the coalition if in the weeks after the Annapolis conference Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appears serious about beginning intense talks with the Palestinians, Haaretz has
learned.

Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman will wait for Olmert's return from Annapolis and watch the diplomatic moves Olmert makes, among them which negotiating teams are established and who heads them.

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If Lieberman gets the impression Olmert is serious about talks, he will call a faction meeting to consider leaving the coalition, which the party joined over a year ago. "No decision has been made yet on leaving," Lieberman said Wednesday. He noted, however, that a decision will have to be made before too long.

Lieberman has shown displeasure with the coalition on both the personal and parliamentary level. In Monday's cabinet meeting that discussed Annapolis, he arrived only when it was his turn to speak and then left. A few hours later he and the Yisrael Beiteinu faction left during the no-confidence vote Likud initiated on freezing construction in the settlements.

The previous week, Yisrael Beiteinu supported a bill to require a large
majority if Jerusalem were to be divided in the framework of a peace treaty. Wednesday, the faction voted for a series of bills proposed by the opposition

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1.	Yisrael Beiteinu responsibility is to stay at the Gov`t making	07:21	\|	Joseph E .	22/11/07

2.	LIBERMAN,RESIGN! YOU`RE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ARMING THE ENEMY	07:45	\|	VOICE of MOSHIACH)))	22/11/07

3.	DONT TRUST LIBERMAN,HE`S JUST RAISNG THE PRICE TO SUPPORT TREASON	07:50	\|	THE VOICE))))	22/11/07

4.	Yisrael Beiteinu should quit politics altogether	08:43	\|	SJ	22/11/07

5.	New Elections	08:54	\|	Ethan	22/11/07

6.	LIBERMAN LETTING GO HIS MINISTERIAL	08:57	\|	Robert	22/11/07

7.	If YB is the weakest link in the peace chain, let it break	09:08	\|	Ivar	22/11/07

8.	quitting	09:15	\|	colin	22/11/07

9.	Another Sharonik: Collaberating with the collaberator`s!!!!!	09:39	\|	Ben Uziel	22/11/07

10.	it`s a gigantic if	09:45	\|	maybe possibly	22/11/07

11.	Consider This	10:43	\|	Natan	22/11/07

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