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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/barak-quits-israeli-labour-party.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Ehud Barak - a key minister of Israel's coalition government - has resigned from the Labour Party to form his own faction" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-barak-quits-israeli-labour-party.jpg" alt="Ehud Barak - a key minister of Israel's coalition government - has resigned from the Labour Party to form his own faction"/></a></p>
<p>Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak has announced that he is leaving the country&#8217;s Labour Party.</p>
<p>The move will divide the movement that dominated Israeli politics for decades and is likely to set off a chain reaction that cast new doubts over already troubled peace efforts with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The split in the party that led Israel to independence did not appear to threaten the majority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition. Barak, a former prime minister and military chief, will stay in the ruling coalition with four followers who joined him.</p>
<p>But Labour&#8217;s eight remaining members, who had been pushing him to leave the government because of the impasse in peace talks, are expected to withdraw. </p>
<p>Labour has been the sole moderate party in Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition, which is otherwise dominated by religious and nationalist parties that oppose major concessions to the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Following Barak&#8217;s announcement, three Labour Cabinet ministers Isaac Herzog, Avishai Braverman and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, also handed in their resignations. Barak &#8220;spit in the face of the party that elected him,&#8221; Ben-Eliezer said.</p>
<p>During a news conference at Israel&#8217;s parliament Barak said he was tired of the infighting within Labour. He accused his former partners of moving too far to the dovish end of the political spectrum.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;We are embarking on a new path. We want to wake up without having to compromise, apologise and explain.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said the faction &#8211; to be called Independence &#8211; would be &#8220;centrist, Zionist and democratic.&#8221; He did not take any questions.</p>
<p>Netanyahu said the Labour shake up made his government stronger by dashing any hopes the Palestinians might have that his coalition would fall. &#8220;The whole world knows and the Palestinians also know this government will be here in the coming years and this is the government they must negotiate with for peace,&#8221; he told a meeting of lawmakers from his ruling Likud Party.</p>
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