* A leading Israeli opposition lawmaker called for Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s resignation. Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu, said in media interviews Monday that Peretz was derelict in his handling of Sunday’s abduction of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza.
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