Top Party Official Calls for Olmert to Resign - New York Times

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"A senior official in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s own party openly called for him to resign today, adding to mounting pressure in the wake of a damning report about Mr. Olmert’s performance in last summer’s war against Hezbollah.

Avigdor Itzhaki, chairman of the Kadima Party’s representatives in Parliament and chairman of the governing coalition, told Army Radio that he was “trying to persuade Kadima members to ask the prime minister to resign.” He added that if Mr. Olmert did not resign, he would.

In response, aides of Mr. Olmert called Mr. Itzhaki a disloyal “subversive” who has “no place in this government,” according to Army Radio."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/world/middleeast/02cnd-israel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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