Clift's Contempt for Israel?

On The McLaughlin Group this weekend, Eleanor Clift went over the far Left edge once again.

She echoed Kofi Annan's disgusting initial statement about the Israeli air attack that destroyed a UN post of "peacekeepers" in Lebanon.

Annan said:

"I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon.

"This co-ordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long-established and clearly marked UN post at Khiam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that UN positions would be spared Israeli fire.

"I call on the Government of Israel to conduct a full investigation into this very disturbing incident and demand any further attack on UN positions and personnel must stop."

Later, Annan softened his stance a bit after talking to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert; but his immediate response cannot be forgotten.

Annan stated that Israel intentionally bombed a UN post. He cannot alter the fact that he accused Israel of targeting UN personnel.

That brings us back to Eleanor Clift and The McLaughlin Group.

The issue being discussed was Israel and Lebanon.

I was half-listening.

At one point, I heard Clift admonish Tony Blankley for his condescending attitude. It was getting unusually personal.

But the killer from Clift came when she was screeching about the Israelis. She referenced a recent trip she made to Israel and commented on the possiblity of the bombing of the UN post being an intentional strike.

I don't have the exact quote, but she said something close to this:

The contempt they (Israelis) have for the UN makes one wonder if it was a deliberate targeting...

That was followed by crosstalk.

I was stunned.

I thought I must be wrong. She couldn't have said that. She couldn't actually be trying to keep that horrible allegation alive.

At this point, I can't find anyone writing about it. I could be wrong about what she said, but I don't think so.

Maybe Newsbusters will have something on it, like they did when Clift said this about Bush:

"What we have in this country is a dictator who's ineffective."

Of course, Clift is a lib. That's nothing new; but now she's really becoming a kook fringe rabid radical Leftist nut.