MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday announced that he will be resigning, and his party will not be joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government, local media reported.
"Unfortunately everything we wanted in coalition agreements and also that which we didn't see brought me to the conclusion that the future will not be a government that serves national interests, but one that serves opportunists," Lieberman said at a press conference, as quoted by the Jerusalem Post.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Lieberman accused the current Israeli leader of "zigzagging," and stated that the government did not commit to creating housing in Jewish settlements or eradicating Hamas in Gaza.
Netanyahu's right wing Likud party won the parliamentary elections in March. Wednesday is the deadline for the prime minister to form a government.
