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Labor Party chairman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak (Dror Artzi / Jini) Last update - 09:42 31/03/2008 MK Ayalon: Barak is Labor chair, but he is not the party itself By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert  A line of dissention has sounded within the Labor Party following faction leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's remarks Sunday night that the party's departure from the coalition could be sooner than anticipated. Barak made the comments to parents of Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed in the Second Lebanon War, after one asked whether he saw the party quitting within the next year or two. Participants in the forum said the defense minister answered that the party would quit, but refused to give a time frame. Advertisement In response to the remarks, Minister Ami Yalon told Army Radio Sunday evening: "Ehud Barak is indeed the chairman of the party, but he is not the party himself." Following the meeting, Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer apparently told Minister Shalom Simhon quietly: "If he [Barak] wants to get up and kill himself - then he should get up and kill himself. According to participants in Sunday's forum, Barak also said during his address that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should resign over his role in the war. By continuing in his role as defense minister, some of the parents said, Barak was giving legitimacy to the survival of Olmert;s government. Ahead of the publication of the Winograd Committee's report on the war, the parents had demanded Barak quit in order to allow for the coalition to be toppled. Barak's bureau would not comment on the comments made during the forum. While campaigning for the position of Labor chair last year, Barak had promised that if he won, he would demand Olmert resign from his position before the Winograd war probe commission releases its final report. Related articles: Barak: If elected Labor chair I will seek Olmert's resignation Barak won't interfere in legal clash over final Winograd report Bookmark to del.icio.us   My land, my country Israeli Arabs mark 32nd Land Day in demonstrations across the country. One voice on Israel It's hard to find differences in U.S. candidates' promises on peace process.   1.   This is unique in Israel 00:30  |  Axel 31/03/08   2.   Barak: Labor to remain 00:49  |  Mark Lincoln 31/03/08   3.   Barak: "yap, yap, yap, yap" 01:20  |  Romano 31/03/08   4.   Barak is A Liar, & A lousy Defense Minister 01:44  |  Shepherd 31/03/08   5.   Axel 02:17  |  jens 31/03/08   6.   # 5 jens 03:04  |  Axel 31/03/08   7.   quit 03:45  |  colin 31/03/08   8.   Ehud the talker... 04:11  |  Shalom 31/03/08   9.   Axel lecturing us again. For free! 04:25  |  MR 31/03/08   10.   The present government felt it has a debt to the Bush 06:28  |  Akram Zekaria 31/03/08   11.   lies, lies and more lies.... 07:36  |  Jason 31/03/08   12.   And Barak expects to be leading Labor into that election? 09:29  |  Johnboy 31/03/08

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