When you are trying to stop someone shooting at you it might makes quite a lot of sense to talk in those kind of terms, about how you are worried they might accidentally hit you.

I mean once you have openly accused them of trying to kill you you've rather closed the dialogue.You're trying to en courage them to back down without losing face, and you know they are never going to own up to deliberately tryin going to kill a bunch of unarmed observers from other countries.

Seeking to use the desperate attempots of that poor bloke to avoid being killed as cover for the killers is just sick. It's a bit like claiming that because someone facing rape says stuff like "I know you're a nice guy and this is all a misunderstaning", that's evidence that there was an element of consent.

When a hi-tech precision bomb then lands smack on top of a target and killing everyone there the assumption has to be that that was the intention of the person firing it. Otherwise what does "precision" mean? It is of course possible that the person targetting the bomb in this case was doing so off their own bat, or even that some kind of misunderstanding had been passed down the line. Maybe someone mean to say "United Nations" and it came out as "Hezbollah" by a slip of the topnguie.

But it's not possible to rule out the possibility that, for some undisclosed reason, a decision had been made higher up to destroy the UN post. It would not have been the first time the IDF has been suspected of this kind of thing. The fact that this is denied and that an investigation carried out by the Israeli authorities will undoubtedly determine that it was accidental, or conceivably that some low level individual was at fault, is neither here nor there. That's what these kind of inquiries are there to do.

Then point is, this is how organisations engaged in terrorist activities behave; and the IDF are clearly engeged in terrorist action in Lebanon at present in every way as much as Hezbollah is, though on a far bigger scale, since they have far more in the way of weaponry.

Terrorist activities? The systematic use of terror, the deliberate creation and exploitation of fear for bringing about political change."

I think that's a pretty good definition, and it comes from a pretty non-controversial source - the glossary in a book published in Georgia Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management.