What? Are you being sarcastic?
JERUSALEM (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for the dispatch of an international peacekeeping force to stem the spiralling violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which the White House squarely blamed on the extremist group Hamas.
Annan told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the intervention of US monitors to shepherd through President George W. Bush's "road map" for peace probably would not be enough to bring an immediate halt to the bloodshed.
"The monitoring mechanism that will be put in place next week is a beginning and it may be enough if the parties are able to break the cycle of violence," the UN chief said.
"In the interim I would like to see an armed peacekeeping force act as a buffer between the Israelis and Palestinians," he told Haaretz in New York.