Rocketing to Failure

Once again, Palestinian terrorists continue firing rockets at Israel, hoping to cause casualties. One such salvo was fired at Ashkelon, while another was fired into the Negev. There were also mortar attacks too.

All the while, Hamas continues increasing its demands for Gilad Shalit. Now, they want Israel to release 1,000 of its terrorists from Israeli jails before considering releasing Shalit.

So, with all that in mind, you've got Desmond Tutu running about complaining about Israeli actions that are designed to prevent Israelis from being killed by Palestinian terrorists. He's busy demanding investigations, while ignoring the rockets slamming into Israel even while he's visiting the region.

UN envoy Archbishop Desmond Tutu, concluding a fact-finding mission to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday, condemned as a "massacre" the killing of 18 members of a Palestinian family by Israeli shelling in 2006.

At a news conference, Tutu said Israel's contention that a technical fault caused the shells to hit two homes in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, a border area where militants fire rockets at southern Israel, "fell short of accountability".

Tutu's moral equivalence is quite stunning. Let's just ignore the Palestinian terrorists who attack Israel from within civilian areas with the express intent of killing Israelis, and if they happen to be caught in Israeli counterbattery fire, they hope that Palestinian civilians get injured or killed so as to inflate their body counts and inflame the media and Palestinian passions against Israel. The terrorists are nihilists, and Tutu is a useful tool for them.