TEL AVIV, May 12 (Tanjug) - The two major political victims of the Kosovo and Metohija conflict now are the political credibility and success of the European Union and the United Nations, the Israeli Haaretz daily states today.

Both of these institutions have proven to be inefficient. Instead of having shown their political responsibility in the early stage of the Kosovo and Metohija developments, they moved away letting the USA in "to mount its military stallion and march into the scene with its fingers on the trigger".

The result of that is human suffering. The second consequence is acceptance and tacit legalization of the barbarian mark of the war that the Anglo-American military power has turned into a routine procedure of killing the civilians.

Haaretz compares the situation with Iraq at the beginning of 1991, when American and British pilots united their massive technological power with equally massive political stupidity to impose a system that was suitable to them.

The author of the Haaretz article warns that such a thing won't function and that NATO will get stuck in Yugoslavia. It will become clear once for all that war is not the way to resolving political problems.

A columnist of The Jerusalem Post comments that the NATO portparol criticized the media because they have ignored "roughly" 8,000 "successful" bombs thrown on Yugoslavia causing a huge panic because of those that have gone astray and hit the refugees, buses, a train, and recently the embassy of a big power.

"Things can go wrong in a war", NATO officials keep saying.

The Israeli journalist says that this is true as much as it is in traffic where careless drivers are deprived of their driving licences or are punished and taken to prison. He, therefore, wonders who will make a public investigation into the criminal bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and which of the officials will have to assume responsibility.

It is time that someone warn NATO that things are dealt with in a different way in a democracy, even in time of war. Dead and wounded civilians cannot be regarded as collateral damage nor can reckless criminal mistakes be regarded as regrettable mistakes.

The Israeli columnists goes on to say that the world has progressed so much that bombs have apparently become smarter than the idiots who fire them.

Unnamed American intelligence sources state that the maps that have been used are old.

"How old" asks Thomas O'Dwyer, journalist, and adds that the Chinese embassy has been on that same location for quite some time, and the Pentagon has at least 3,000 employees who do nothing but add new data on the maps based on the CIA information and military intelligence services.

If NATO leaders believe that they can go on piling up mistakes at the same pace, they are terribly wrong. Their behaviour only paves the way to a large-scale incident that is on the verge of breaking which is going to cause bitterness among the international public, demoralizing NATO and leading to an abrupt end to the war.

The comment ends with the question - is General Wesley Clarke certain that such smart weapons know the location of the Russian embassy in Belgrade?