MK Peretz staying in Labor, for now
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Knesset Member Amir Peretz, Daniel Ben-Simon Eitan Cabel, Raleb Majadele announced that they have decided that at this stage, they would all remain with the Labor Party. At a press conference they noted that they would be meeting with the other four members of the party in order to determine whether to stay together, and if so, how to proceed.
"We have waited for this moment, but we decided to give them another chance: There aren't and never were negotiations with another party," Peretz stressed. He complemented Kadima Chairman Tzipi Livni who has "proven resistance in the opposition", and criticized Barak: "We will not allow an opportunist to take the name of Rabin and Ben-Gurion in vain." (Attila Somfalvi)
