Kofi Annan Can't Be That Dumb?!

"The Israeli claim that the beach blast was caused by an explosive charge at the site sounds strange to me. I don't believe it is plausible that the Palestinians planted charges in a place where civilians often spend their time," Annan told the London-based Al-Hayat daily.

Secretary General Kofi Annan has gone on the record as saying that the Palestinians couldn't possibly have mined the beach where Palestinian civilians were killed. The Palestinians claim, without any actual evidence that they haven't drummed up, invented, or otherwise forged, that Israel dropped artillery shells on the area causing the deaths.

Israel refutes the claims, and points out that not only did Israel stop any artillery shelling well before the explosion occurred, but that the explosion, damage patterns, and shrapnel recovered from the injured do not match Israeli artillery shells.

In other words, the Palestinians are making this up to cover for one of their own goals.

Consider then, Kofi, all the hundreds of suicide bombings, car bombings, and other terrorist attacks against civilian populations and wonder whether the Palestinian terrorists are capable of attacking civilian populations.

Or, consider the Palestinian terrorists' extensive and pervasive use of human shields to deter reprisal attacks - terrorists openly operating from known civilian areas where women and children are present in order to launch rockets, attack Israeli troop deployments, or otherwise plan, stage, or carry out attacks on Israel.

The pattern of evidence is overwhelming that the terrorists regularly operate from civilian areas to attack Israel. They hide behind civilians all while posing as civilians themselves in order to launch deadly attacks - and often kill other Palestinians in the process.