Egeland’s Comments, Juan Cole Style
Read my immediately preceding post and then visit Professor Juan Cole’s “web blog “Informed Comment.” This is how he comments on the same story (as of 11:24 pm Eastern).
Jan Egeland, the United Nations undersecretary general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said Sunday after touring South Beirut that most of the victims of Israel's attacks on Lebanon have been civilians, and that children are dying.
Cole’s link for the story takes you to Lebanon’s The Daily Star, which of the several reports that I have seen is the only one to conveniently
exclude Egeland’s comments about Hezbollah’s “cowardly blending.” As a result, Cole’s sourcing and commentary suggests that the U.N. Undersecretary made only anti-Israeli comments, which is not true.
Keep in mind that my source, al-Jazeera, is hardly some kind of neo-con outfit. (I could have used the Fox News story but I prefer to check two sources.)
Bias? Maybe haste?
