Cabel warns Labor party will split if Barak joins unity government

Labor secretary-general MK Eitan Cabel on Monday criticized party leader Ehud Barak for meeting with Prime Minister-designate and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday. Cabel told Army Radio that the Labor party would be divided if Barak decides to join Netanyahu's government. On Sunday, sources close to Barak said that he had called Labor MKs in recent days and told them that the party should join a national unity government led by Netanyahu.