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Cracks in Olmert Cabinet

Jerusalem: Cracks began to appear in Israel government a day after a probe panel severely criticised Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over the handling of last year's war against Hezbollah with a Labour Party minister tendering his resignation on Tyuesday.

"[Prime Minister] Ehud Olmert is responsible for war's failures and must resign,'' Eitan Cabel, a Minister without portfolio, told reporters after he put in his papers to step up pressure on the Kadima Party leader who has vowed not to step down.

A defiant Olmert on Monday said he would not resign despite the publication of the Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War, which has accused him of ``severe failures'' in handling of the conflict.

— PTI

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