Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls made by Israel’s president for early elections. Ezer Weizman had said Netanyahu should call for elections before their scheduled date in the year 2000 because of an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
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