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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. (AP) Last update - 21:51 07/07/2008 Olmert lambasts Labor for being unreliable and weak By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Ehud Olmert, Kadima, Israel  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had harsh words for the Labor party during a Kadima meeting at the Knesset on Monday, stating that 'Labor is a negligible power in the public arena.' During the meeting, called to discuss internal Kadima elections, Olmert said that 'Labor is not exactly the party that creates and honors agreements - it breaches agreements with us on a daily basis and members of Labor are the last people who can come to us with complaints.' Olmert's comments came against the backdrop of an agreement reached between Labor and Kadima, which will require the Kadima council to decide by Thursday on a specific date for the elections, to be held before September 25. Advertisement The head of the Kadima council and Mayor of Rishon LeTzion, Meir Nitzan, who mediated between Kadima and the Labor party, said that under these circumstances, he does not intend to make a trivial effort. "I am sorry that I got into this situation; I tried to build a relationship between Kadima and Labor, so that the government would not have to change," Nitzan said. He added: "I don't want us to appear unfair; I don't want the council to be assembled without an agenda and without approval and I don't understand why there is a need to stall." The primaries will be held in September, and whoever wins 40 percent of the votes will become head of the party and prime ministerial candidate in the general elections. Related articles: Olmert associates on Kadima-Labor deal: Barak ran away like battered dog Olmert plans to run in Kadima primaries in Sept. Olmert tells Kadima: Get ready for party primaries Bookmark to del.icio.us   Prisoner exchange Israel signs swap deal, begins exhuming bodies of Hezbollah guerillas. Provocative questions Gaydamak tells TAU student to 'shut up and go to hell' over Angola question.   1.   Labour IS weak 21:09  |  Arie 07/07/08   2.   Olmert-"Labor...unreliable, weak." Well, well look who`s talking? 21:09  |  common sense 07/07/08   3.   He is proof that what he says is true 23:09  |  Mark Lincoln 07/07/08   4.   Pot? Kettle? Black? 00:56  |  Elianah 08/07/08   5.   MERT HAS BAGS UNDER HIS EYES BIG ENOUGH TO PACK HIS CLOTHES IN AN 03:43  |  glenna 08/07/08

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