When will Israel learn to stand up and say "There will be no investigations. There are no innocent Palestinians. Nevertheless, we do not deliverately target civilians. Palestinians do target civilians, especially Israeli children. Talk to us again after 6 months go by without rockets being fired at Sderot."

You nitwit. He's an experienced bomb damage assessmenet expert who's completed assignments in Kosovo among other places. He found actual physical pieces of shrapnel on the Gaza beach with IDF markings. How do you dispute what he actually found? Pls. provide some proof, any proof that he's a "known Palestinian sympathizer." You can't because there isn't any other than your fevered imagination.

Sorry folks, but I have to agree with the sheikh .. from the injuries incurred (upper body with no leg involvement) this was not a 'sand bomb'! So unless some kids were playing catch with an unexploded shell ... It would seem that it came from a long range weapon (maybe the Israeli ships that were firing around that time?)

You must not forget and I will never forget that little girl rolling in the sand by her father's dead body. I am Muslim, and my reaction and horror would have been the same if that family in the beach was Jewish, Christen, Hindu... We cannot lose our humanity.

As a third generation Mexican-American and an openly gay man, I have to ask: why do Zionist Jews get to restore their ancient homeland---using non-Jewish American tax dollars, I might add---while Mexican-Americans get deported from ours in the American Southwest? Furthermore, imagine the absurdity of gays around the world demanding that our "ancient homeland" of Sodom and Gomorrah be returned to us, by force, and using taxes paid by non-gays to do so!

For anyone who speaks Hebrew the translation of Kofi Annan means "clouded monkey." Once again, he proves to live down to his name.

Kofi in hebrew means my monkey in english it means coffee which comes in hafuch, botz and other varieties, there is a machine called Mr. Coffee I think Mr. Coffee (my monkey) is botz and regarding Israel hafuch

So it's racist of a Jew to mention that Palestinians kill other Palestinians? I guess it's awfully inconsiderate of us to notice. I'm reminded of something Menachem Begin said once: "Goyim kill goyim and they run to hang the jew."

"kofi-mate" says that "Israel is guilty to the core"(ho-hum) and that the palestinians "should be treated with dignity and respect rather than be killed left and right"...Bwahahaha!... Nice try ,Kofi-mate!

Why anyone should ever listen to him is a mystery to me. On his watch the US has had to bail him out in Europe, in Asia, in the Middle East...and his friends the Saudis have done nothing but cause trouble. No surprise on this one, kids.

Which Muslim country are talking about?

#37 Your Hebrew is not very good. Kofi means "my monkey". Anan means "masturbated".

#36 What in G-d's Name are you babbling about? Sodom and Gemorah the ancient homeland of gays?? Gays existed eons before that. As for non-Jewish taxpayers' money being used to support Israel! Israeli technology gave you cell phones, CT scanners, a procedure to alleviate Alzheimer's effects, voice mail, UAVs. etc. etc. etc.You live in a country that does not give gay people the same rights as straight people have, even though you and other gay people pay taxes to support governments that don't support you,so just shut up.

#42 response to #32. What's the matter with you? He's referring to any and all Muslim countries

Let's suppose it was an Israeli shell; obviously it was accidental, not the real target, unlike the Palestinians, who fire at civilians on purpose.

I do not care whether DR from Florida is a Jew or not, but he or she's a racist alright. Not for mentioning that sometimes Palestinians kill other Palestinians but for his typical racist characterizations of in this case Palestinians as intellectually inferior and procreating to quickly, hence there being too many and so killing Palestinians en masse is not a problem because in as long as there are enough left in his definition it doesn;t constitute genocide and that in combination with the aforementioned fact that there have been cases of Palestinians killing other Palestinians for whatever reason means that it's alright for Israel to go and kill Palestinians also. If this kind of reasoning would not be subjected to the fully automatic double standard treatment, it would also legitimize the killing off of large portions of Jews (or who rightly or wrongly consider themselves Jews) inside Israel, because there have been cases of Jews killing other Jews also and more specifically if preferred Israeli's killing other Israeli's.