Former PM Barak criticizes Sharon, Labor party

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By Gideon Alon and Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondents and Haaretz Service

Former prime minister Ehud Barak criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his family, as well as the Labor party, on Monday, accusing the prime minister of corruption and the party of following Sharon excessively.

In an interview on the Knesset Channel, Barak said that "the Sharon family is corrupt to the core." In any developed country, he said, Sharon would be dismissed from his position following the accumulation of affairs connected to him and his family.

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Barak also sharply criticized the Labor party's leaders on Monday, accusing his party of becoming Sharon's hanger-on.

Making a rare appearance at a meeting of the Labor faction at the Knesset, Barak said that "Sharon has already had no real opposition for two years. The only opposition Sharon has are the Feiglins and Uzi Landau."

Later, appearing on the television program "New Evening," Barak was more scathing: "There is no reason in the world for Labor to find a place under Sharon's skirts and disappear there. Today, Sharon lacks any real opposition from the left comparable to Landau from the right."

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