Olmert faces party rebellion over damning war report
AFP, May, 2007
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JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced an open rebellion within his party on Wednesday as senior officials joined calls for him to quit over a damning report of his leadership during the Lebanon war.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni -- a top Kadima official considered one of the frontrunners to take over party leadership -- was due to ask Olmert to quit during a meeting later on Wednesday, an official of her office told AFP.
"She is expected to ask him to resign," he said on condition of anonymity.
Should she issue the call, Livni would become the most senior member in Olmert's ruling coalition and within his party to join those clamouring for the premier to step down in the wake of the critical war report.
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Speaking at the opening of an extraordinary cabinet meeting Wednesday, Olmert warned: "To all those who are in haste in order to ...
