JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's Labour party on Monday decided to support a motion to dissolve parliament this week, in a move that could bring down embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government, officials said. Fifteen of the dovish party's 19 MPs voted in favour of Labour chairman Defence Minister Ehud Barak's decision to support the dissolution bill on Wednesday, a senior party official told AFP. Barak earlier this month threatened to quit Olmert's coalition government if the premier did not step aside over suspicions he had illegally accepted cash from a US businessman. Olmert, who has denied any wrongoing, on Sunday warned that any Labour minister who voted in favour of dissolution "would be out of office within 48 hours," a Labour official said. Labour is Olmert's key partner in government and without its support the...
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