An Israeli general intends to resign after he was suspended last week from the peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
Maj. Gen. Oren Shahor, the coordinator of activities in the territories, told confidantes that he “could not continue to function in the current atmosphere,” according to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv.
Shahor was suspended from the Israeli negotiating team after Ma’ariv last week published photographs of him leaving the home of Labor leader and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Ma’ariv said Shahor had also held recent meetings with Labor Knesset member Yossi Beilin, who served as minister without portfolio in the previous Peres- led government.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had authorized the suspension because Shahor had failed to notify the government of his meetings with Labor Party officials.
The decision to suspend Shahor drew an outcry from the opposition.
Shahor maintained that the meetings were of a “personal nature” and that he had disclosed no sensitive information about the negotiations to the opposition.
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