ISRAEL’S moderate Labour party has rejected Benjamin Netanyahu’s appeal to join his future government, hindering the hard-line leader’s efforts to create a measured coalition that would enjoy international support.
The centrist Kadima Party last night reacted coolly to Mr Netanyahu’s alliance overtures, making him more likely to rely on a narrow coalition of nationalist and religious parties that could halt peace talks with Palestinians and harm Israel‘s political ties with the US administration.
Labour leader Ehud Barak, Israel’s current defence minister, said he told Mr Netanyahu his party would serve as a “responsible, serious and constructive opposition.”
