Israel Not Planning to Protest Syria's WTO Admission

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) announced that Israel will not vote against accepting Syria as a member of the World Trade Organization in Geneva on Tuesday, thus supporting the position of Minister of Trade, Industry and Labor Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) over that of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Avigdor Liberman), who had strongly advocated voting against Syria’s inclusion and going against the 152 other nations, including the United States.