MK Avigdor Liberman, a former Finance Minister and the head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, responded on Twitter to former Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh's statements regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"I never believed in conspiracies, but in the past few days I have changed my mind," Liberman wrote. "When I hear [former Prime Minister] Ehud Barak, [former IDF Chief of Staff] Yair Golan, and Roni Alsheikh, I believe that they joined up for Netanyahu."
He added, "The calls that we are hearing in the past few days towards civil disobedience and to violate the law are outrageous and unacceptable. The people who are protesting, who take to the streets week after week, are normal people, law-abiding, who want the good of the country."
"In addition, the absurd statements of the former Police Commissioner, Roni Alsheikh, are outrageous, stupid, and irresponsible. And they hurt, first and foremost, the Israeli judicial system, which nowadays is anyways under unprecedented attack."
Earlier on Wednesday, Alsheikh told Army Radio, "We expected him (Netanyahu - ed.) to resign from his position when an indictment was filed, that the party would tell him that it was for the good of the country that he resign and someone else come into power. We were expecting him to follow Olmert's precedent."