Truth is not a Perspective
While sitting here watching the 5 o’clock news I got an email from Magen David Adom. Were I not all too well-acquainted with the media’s tendency to report only one side of the story — the one most likely to incite those quick to anger and slow to think — I would’ve thought the two were wholly unrelated.
Exhibit One:
Neighborhood Bombing ‘Against Humanitarian Law’:
Israel’s bombing of a crowded Beirut neighbourhood where Hezbollah had its headquarters has breached humanitarian law, a senior UN official has said, as reports emerged of heavy fighting on Lebanon’s southern border.
Exhibit Two:
MDA Statistics: July 12th to July 24th, 2006
Hezbollah rockets hit northern Israel: 2,200
Qassam rockets launched from Gaza since June 25th: 193
Israelis in bomb shelters: 1,000,000
MDA ambulances deployed in north: 750
Number wounded, treated by MDA: 823
Israeli civilians killed: 17
Wounded today (July 24): 49
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First “international law” (which isn’t), and now “humanitarian law”?
It’s great how UN officials never bother to say things like exactly which “law” is supposedly being violated, ain’t it?
(Weird that Egeland can say “… it was hard to distinguish between military and civilian targets.” and yet call it a violation of humanitarian law.
Isn’t it part of the law of war that one is supposed to keep military and civilian separate?
And, well, it’s just like The Age to headline that accusation, but not that the accusation isn’t even the official UN position.
When you’re harder on Israel than the Arab League, you really need to reflect, I think.)
[...] The last count I saw was 2200 but that was earlier in the week. [...]