Avigdor Lieberman's public relations advisor, Tzahi Moshe, said French President Nicolas Sarkozy's comments against the foreign minister were "serious and intolerable", as they constituted "the intervention of the president of a respected democratic country in the affairs of another democratic country".
"We expect every political institution in Israel to condemn this blatant intervention of a foreign country in our private affairs, no matter what its political stance," Moshe added. (Roni Sofer)