CAIRO, May 16 (IslamOnline.net) - A famed Israeli actor threatened Saturday, May 15, to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, blaming him for the killing of his sergeant son and four other soldiers last week in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

"I hold the prime minister responsible for the killing of my son and not the Palestinians," Shlomo Vishinski was quoted as saying by the Israeli public radio.

Lior Vishinski and four soldiers were killed Thursday, May 13, when Palestinian resistance fighters blew up a second Israeli armored vehicle in less than 48 hours.

Vishinski said he phoned a journalist in the mass-circulation Maariv daily shortly after he knew the heart-breaking news and told him about his intentions to kill Sharon.

He said an Israeli special force stormed his house and arrested him the same night only to be released later.

The actor has also urged the Israeli government to allow him to burry his son in front of the headquarters of the governing Likud party which he held accountable for the loss of his son.

His request was spurned.

"Now, I won't pay income tax," he said. "I won't send my money to the Likud party's central committee, which decides what happens here, instead of the government which is supposed to decide."

Vishinski said he wants now to launch a massive protest campaign at the policies of Sharon and the Likud.

"My son is the victim of those Likud members, who refused to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. I don’t want my son to be killed for nothing," he added.

The poll results showed that a total of 59.5 percent of the 193,000 Likud members who cast their votes rejected the scheme.

The centerpiece of his U.S.-backed plan is the removal of all existing 21 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip.

Currently some 8,000 Jewish settlers live in the Strip, alongside 1.5 million Palestinians.

"We don’t need Gaza and should pull out our troops of it," said Vishinski. "I hope that my son’s killing would serve as a launching pad for the withdrawal".

Vishinski also took part Saturday night in a mass rally that brought more than 100,000 Israelis, calling for a Gaza pullout after the killing of 11 Israelis soldiers last week.