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Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced a backlash on Friday over a UN proposal to end the war in Lebanon, with army officers saying they were held back and right-wing rivals calling for new elections. "Olmert must go," read a front page headline in Israel's left-leaning Haaretz newspaper. Opinion polls, conducted before details of the proposed Security Council resolution emerged, showed public support eroding for Olmert, a career politician who lacks the combat credentials of many of his predecessors. Twenty per cent of those surveyed by Haaretz believed Israel was winning the war. Leading members of the right-wing...