How stupid can Israel get?

25 Jul

How’s this for an answer?

BBC: Israeli bomb kills UN observers
Excerpt:

The UN in Lebanon says the Israeli air force destroyed the observer post, in which four military observers were sheltering.

It said the four, from Austria, Canada, China and Finland, had taken shelter in a bunker under the post after it was earlier shelled 14 times by Israeli artillery.

A rescue team was also shelled as it tried to clear the rubble.

“I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN Observer post in southern Lebanon,” Mr Annan said in a statement from Rome.

What in the h*** can they be thinking? How can even Bush support them after this outrage?

EDIT: Per this CNN story, the body count has been updated to two dead and two missing, believed buried in the rubble of the post. So far, the only Israeli response has been:

… The Israel Defense Forces said it was looking into the report … [excerpted from the CNN story]

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