OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud  Olmert said Monday that he assumed full responsibility for failures  highlighted in a report last week by a government-appointed  commission into the 2006 Lebanon war. "The Winograd Commission said what it had to say, and what it  said was very harsh. I bear full responsibility for all the failures  - I never tried to shirk that," Olmert told an extraordinary  session of Parliament that convened to discuss the report. "I will use this responsibility to fix mistakes, and this is  what I have been doing since the day after the war ended.

Olmert's speech was interrupted by calls for him to resign - which he has refused to do -  from MPs and relatives of fallen soldiers.

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, himself a former premier, told Parliament the war was a failure and that Olmert  should step down "because he bears sole responsibility."  

"Would the captain of the Titanic have been given another  command?" he asked.