The PD must now decide whether to continue to share cabinet seats with a party led by a convicted tax fraudster.
He has pledged to name a prime minister from outside the group, include at least one Christian and one woman among his top deputies, and to share cabinet posts with an alliance of groups and parties that have come together to try to force the military to roll back its power grab.
But the proposed transitional regime in which the government and the SPLA will share cabinet posts and oil revenues until the south holds a referendum on independence in 2010 will not be pretty.
First Minister Peter Robinson, who is currently wrestling with his power sharing cabinet colleagues in Belfast over welfare reform, has welcomed the sale.
On the heels of Barak's endorsement of sharing Jerusalem, another Labor cabinet minister, Isaac Herzog, "called on Netanyahu to form a political outline which would include the permanent borders, based on the 2000 [Bill] Clinton plan," which includes a shared Jerusalem.
President Omar el-Bashir announced a new power-sharing cabinet, another step forward in a peace deal signed with southern rebels in January.
The stumbling block was the opposition's demand for a package deal, including a share of cabinet seats large enough to block any legislation.The Arab League compromise, welcomed at first by all sides, had suggested that both the government and opposition concede seats to ministers appointed by the "neutral" Mr Suleiman.
One described the documents as staff level, but another said the paperwork was shared with cabinet secretaries during internal deliberations.
Asked if the PM shared his cabinet colleague's opinion, Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: "He does share the Education Secretary's view: it is absolutely right that there has been an apology".
His new title is "minister for strategic threats"; pundits are joking that the chief strategic threat will be Mr Lieberman himself.It will not be the first time Labour ministers have shared the cabinet table with Mr Lieberman, whose party originally spoke for ex-Soviet immigrants but now draws a third of its support from other poor and disenchanted right-wingers.
