May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert survived three no-confidence motions brought by parliamentary opponents after a government commission's report blaming Olmert for being unprepared for last year's war in Lebanon.

The motions failed to dislodge Olmert, whose governing coalition controls 78 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Olmert's Kadima Party and its four allied parties easily defeated the first bill 60 to 28 with nine abstentions and the other two by similar margins.

``The entire nation is saying something simple: You've failed. Take responsibility. Go home,'' Benjamin Netanyahu, the opposition leader and Likud Party chairman, said in a speech televised from the Knesset chamber in Jerusalem.

Olmert has refused to resign, saying he needs to stay in office to fix mistakes highlighted in the report. The commission, led by Eliahu Winograd, a retired judge, said Olmert bears ``supreme responsibility'' for military and political failures in fighting the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia.

The no-confidence motions were submitted by the Likud, Meretz and United Torah Judaism parties.

``You're going to make the repairs?'' Netanyahu said. ``You're not the solution. You're the problem. The true way to fix an earthquake like this is to go to elections.''

The war in Lebanon erupted July 12 after Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two others in a cross-border ambush. Olmert said five days later in a speech to the Knesset that the army would retrieve the captive soldiers and demolish Hezbollah's military capabilities, which the panel described as unrealistic goals.

The conflict left 1,100 Lebanese dead, mostly civilians killed in Israeli air raids, and 163 Israelis, including 43 civilians and 120 soldiers. Hezbollah, which received financial support and weapons from Iran, fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israel before a United Nations-brokered cease-fire was declared Aug. 14.

To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan Ferziger in Jerusalem at jferziger@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: May 7, 2007 12:55 EDT