Isaac Herzog, a leader of Israel's Labor Party. Photo: Wiki Commons.

Times of Israel – Citing Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s recent statement that he preferred elections to releasing Israeli Arab prisoners convicted of terrorism to the Palestinian Authority, opposition MKs eagerly took up on Monday what they characterized as a call for new elections by a major coalition leader.

“Liberman expressed his heart’s desire and returned to his natural place in calling for new elections,” opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Labor) said sarcastically in the plenum. “I don’t think this is awful. It’s a real solution for the State of Israel to break the impasse that this government has caused at every turn. If Liberman wants to go to elections, we’ll go.”

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