Shimon Peres dismissed speculation that he would not support Israel’s acting prime minister. Peres, who quit the Labor Party last year in support of Ariel Sharon’s new centrist movement, Kadima, said Sunday that acting prime minister Ehud Olmert had his full backing.
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