Hey Kofi... Don't let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out.

Finally... Kofi Annan completes his 10 year term as UN Secretary-General.

What sort of legacy does he leave?

He leaves a trail of anti-Israel bias that has putrefied UN rhetoric for a decade.

I quote tremendous article by Hillel Fendel (Arutz 7, 12/13/06).

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117353

Annan said that Israelis are unlikely to succeed in getting the Muslim-Arab world to change its attitude towards them unless "they themselves clearly grasp and acknowledge the fundamental Palestinian grievance - namely, that the establishment of the State of Israel involved the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families, turning them into refugees, and was followed 19 years later by a military occupation that brought hundreds of thousands more Palestinian Arabs under Israeli rule... Yet thousands of Israelis still live in territories occupied in 1967 - and more than 1,000 more are added every month. As Palestinians watch this activity, they also see a barrier being built through their land in contravention of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, as well as more than 500 checkpoints to control their movement, and the heavy presence of the Israeli Defense Forces."

Annan's remarks overlook several factors, including:
* Tens of thousands of Arabs moved into what became Israel in the years just before the establishment of Israel
* The 550,000 Arab refugees of 1948 were caused largely by the Arab nations encouraging them to flee, and then refusing to provide them with permanent housing solutions
* Arab League Secretary-General Habib Issa quoted his predecessor Azzam Pasha as "assur[ing] Arabs [in 1948] that the occupation of Palestine, including Tel Aviv, would be as simple as a military promenade... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property, and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states." (Al-Hoda Lebanese daily, New York, June 8, 1951).
* King Hussein of Jordan said in 1960: "Since 1948, the Arab leaders have approached the Palestinian problem in an irresponsible manner... They have used the Palestinian people for selfish political purposes." Former Syrian Prime Minister Khaled Al-Azm admitted in 1972: "Since 1948, it is we who demanded the return of the refugees... while it is we who made them leave... We brought disaster upon Arab refugees... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children -- all this in the service of political purposes..." (Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, pages 23, 16)
* Israel welcomed hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries in the years following its creation
* The United Nations has not taken a strong stand against current threats to annihilate Israel - one of the very reasons Israel was created in the first place