Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barka has turned Israel's embassy in Washington into a "branch of the Labor party," an extreme right-wing MP charged Sunday.
"Mr. Barak has installed his own headquarters in the Israeli embassy in Washington, with the intention of promoting his personal political interests," Avigdor Lieberman of the Russian immigrant Yisrael Beiteinu party -- which has four seats in the 120-seat parliament -- told Israeli public radio.
"I am shocked to see Mr. Barak using for the Camp David summit the same public relations experts who were involved in promoting his image before the May 1999 elections and who are refusing to respond to police enquiries," he said, in a reference to questions hanging over the campaign financing of Barak's One Israel bloc.
"I intend to call on the Knesset interior affairs committee to make a ruling on this matter," he said.
Israel's State Comptroller January found Barak's bloc guilty of breaking the law on electoral financing, and sentenced it to a fine of 2.6 million dollars - OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP)
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