Occupied Al-Quds, January 30, SPA -- An Israeli commission of inquiry into Israel's 2006 war with Lebanon's Hezbollah said Wednesday it found "great andgrave faults" in the decision-making of both the government and military, according to the Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa. Presenting its long-awaited final conclusions 18 months after thesummer war, the commission nevertheless did not draw "personalconclusions," nor recommend the resignation of Prime Minister EhudOlmert or other political and military leaders. Despite its harsh criticism, it exonerated Olmert on several keyclaims made against him, including his decision to launch a large-scale, last-minute ground offensive in the final three days of thewar. Olmert, who earlier received the 617-page report at his Jerusalemoffice, said in initial reaction he would "thoroughly study" it overthe coming days. His aides were quick to say they were "relieved" by thecommission's findings and said his critics "owe him an apology" forthe "character assassination" they carried out against him. But the hardline Likud party of Benjamin Netanyahu and othermembers of the opposition called on Olmert to resign. Relatives of soldiers who died in the war also set up a protesttent opposite the Tel Aviv home of Defence Minister Ehud Barak,demanding he pull his dovish Labour Party out Olmert's Kadima-ledcoalition. "In the overall evaluation of the war we can see that there was agreat and grave miss(ed opportunity)," Winograd told a newsconference in occupied Al-Quds Wednesday evening, summing up hiscommission's almost 17-month-long investigation. "Israel set out on a lengthy war, which it itself initiated, whichended without Israel winning a clear military victory. "A paramilitary organization of thousands of fighters, stoodduring several weeks opposite the strongest army in the Middle East,which enjoyed absolute air superiority and advantages in size andtechnology," said the retired judge. Olmert's decision to launch the large-scale military offensivecame late and after a "long period of trudging." It therefore couldnot materialize its potential and failed to achieve any militarygoals. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/522708