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Article: ISRAEL: FORMER PRIME MINISTER PRESSURES OLMERT TO RESIGN
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- May 14, 2007
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Peter Hirschberg
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-14-2007
JERUSALEM, Israel, May 11, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert lost ground this week when former Prime
Minister Ehud Barak suggested that the embattled leader should step
down.
Calls for Olmert to resign have intensified in the wake of a
scathing report on his handling of the war in Lebanon last summer.
Barak, who is running for the leadership of the center-left
Labor Party, said he will push for early elections if he wins the
primary on May 29, if Olmert has not quit by then.
Barring an unlikely, Houdini-like escape, it is hard to see how
Olmert can survive the next few months in office. The searing
criticism ...