Civilian Casualties, Part IV

From the U.N., no less, a little bit of reality on the current situation:

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The U.N. humanitarian chief accused Hezbollah on Monday of "cowardly blending" in among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with
Israel.

The militant group has built bunkers and tunnels near the Israeli border to shelter weapons and fighters, and its members easily blend in among civilians.

The official, Jan Egeland, of course, first had to bash the Israelis for disproportionate response. When diplomats do this, you never know whether they "mean it" or are just trying to seem fair and balanced, although it's usually the former. At any rate, Egeland then goes on to make the following startling—for a U.N. official—observations:

"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," he said. "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men."

Yup. And this is another way the "innocent civilian" game is played. We've emphasized one iteration of this nonsense, where the un-uniformed Hezbollah murderers claim that the deaths of their own monsters are "civilian casualties." But this report emphasizes the real "innocent civilian" casualties that are caused by, as Egeland puts it, their "cowardly blending" with the general, innocent (or relatively innocent) populace. The jihadists don't care of course, because this preserves "their fighters," and besides, the civilians who are murdered, as they serve as human shields for these cowards, get to go straight to heaven anyway and presumably will find their 72 virgins. (Although one wonders what solace this will be to a young woman who's just been accidentally offed by the Israelis so that a brave jihadist can live to murder another day.)

The supposedly ignorant George Bush figured this stuff out instantly on 9/11. It is encouraging to see that at least a few of the world's dimwitted socialist elites are starting to get it as well.