By Andrew L. Jaffee

After an interminable diatribe by Secretary General Kofi Annan at the U.N. today, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador there, asked the question which most of the world’s politicians do not have the guts and/or intelligence to ask:

Still no-one has explained how you conduct a ceasefire with a group of terrorists.

Yes, yes, yes. Anan did chide Hezbollah for shooting rockets into Israel. But the Secretary General still discussed Israel and Hamas as if they were equals, both responsible for the current situation in the Levant. As usual, Israel had to give a deaf world, drunk with moral relativism, a reality check:

Israel’s UN ambassador Dan Gillerman said he was disturbed that Mr Annan’s report had not mentioned the word “terror”.

“The first thing that must be addressed is cessation of terror before we even talk about cessation of hostilities,” he said.

After all, Israel is a nation that actually warns civilians in Lebanon before attacking. Hezbollah hides behind civilians to carry out its terrorist activities.