Growing calls for Israeli PM to resign

Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert and defense minister Amir Peretz faced new calls to resign today after Israel’s army chief stepped down, succumbing to widespread outrage over the handling of last summer’s inconclusive war in Lebanon.

Both Olmert and Peretz pressed forward with routine business, but with a government probe into the war looming, and a criminal investigation into Olmert’s role in a banking deal, the prime minister’s troubles appear likely to grow.