One way to look at it

Israel today, while in the course of firing on Hizbollah guerrillas, hit a UN observation post and killed 4 members of UNIFIL. Depending on who you ask, it was intentional:

Furious UN secretary-general Kofi Annan yesterday demanded an Israeli investigation into the "apparently deliberate targeting" of a UN post in southern Lebanon.

Which is of course denied by Israel and not to be believed by anyone who understands such things:

We received emails from him a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position for tactical necessity, not being targeted. Now that's veiled speech in the military. What he was telling us was Hezbollah soldiers were all over his position and the IDF were targeting them. And that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it.

Former CIA analyst and lefty Spook du jour Larry Johnson had this take on Annan's response:

And members of the media are phrasing and shaping their reporting of yesterday's deaths in order to shift the story's FOCUS to a criticism of Kofi Annan's statement -- not to the eight hours of Israeli attacks on the U.N. bunker, despite constant pleas from U.N. officials, and the deaths of the Austrian, Finnish, Chinese, and Canadian observers from the 2,000-person UNIFIL force.

Kofi Annan's criticism and suspicions, however, have strong bases since he knows, only too well, the recent history of other deaths and injuries from Israeli air strikes, as well as numerous, repetitive efforts by U.N. officials, and the general in charge, to let Israel's military know where the U.N. observers are located so that they wouldn't be bombed by mistake.

Poor old Kofi...the guy just can't catch a break!

And according to John Podhoretz, he doesn't deserve one.