[NormsRevenge]

Norway's Jan Egeland, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator speaks during an interview in his office at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Nicholas Ratzenboeck)

[NormsRevenge]

uhhh, when you have Hezzies who built schools on top of rocket launching facilities, uhh, what do you propose to do, Egeland?

[claudiustg]

---U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said Friday the anger on all sides in the Middle East is the greatest he has seen in two decades of trying to help the troubled region make peace.---

How do you spell relief? 7.62 FMJ.

[coconutt2000]

Polarization is good. Once people pick sides it is easier to figure out who to kill.

[GSlob]

""This has now become a powder keg. You have really to defuse it. You cannot just delay further conflict.""
One destroys powder kegs by blowing them up, having taken cover.

[xrp]

He said it was impossible to predict how many people will die.

Millions of Arab Muslims need to die for the Arab Muslim civilians to stop supporting the terrorists and their methods. This surgical strike stuff doesn't cut it. The Germans and Japanese didn't surrender because we only took out their tanks and airplanes. Dresden, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, etc -- is what brought the war to a close.

[Zeppo]

"Israel was outraged when I said that it was clearly excessive, clearly disproportionate, and I said a war where you kill more children than armed men — there is something wrong with the way of waging hostilities. Hezbollah was outraged when I said that they are blending in to the civilian population, and it's cowardly to blend in among women and children. It's tough."

Let's see if I can simplify things for you, Jan. The Israelis are outraged because your charge against them is clearly false. Hezbollah is outraged because your charge against them is clearly true. Do you understand it better now, Jan baby?

[ansel12]

"This has now become a powder keg. You have really to defuse it."



Now is the time to let this thing explode, the west has to be locked into an action before the 2008 elections.

[ChristianDefender]

Don't worry Egeland it's just an expression... Arabs/Muslims are not that united to join forces and go to war against the Israelites nor the U.S. ... they want to keep their "loosers" legacy!

[technomage]

I've never seen nations as polarized as during this recent visit,"

Obviously he has not had his eyes and ears open during the last 20 years.

[rlmorel]

"...I've never seen nations as polarized as during this recent visit..."

Really?

Really Really?

OMG...this...this...is like NOTHING we have ever seen in the Middle East before!

WHAT on earth is this guy smoking???

[Mo1]

Ummm .. where has this dude been since the 70's ... under a rock??

[woofie]

How about ice cream and the movies for all sides?

[PetroniusMaximus]

Will these Euro Bobbleheads ever get a clue?

[familyop]

Good. Keep the Islamo-fascists in a state of perpetual excitement, and they'll be easier to push over.

[NormsRevenge]

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, seen here with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, called on Iran and Syria to respect the terms of a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council in a bid to end a month of fighting between their ally Hezbollah and Israel.(AFP/HO-UN/Mark Garten)

[paudio]

IIRC, this is the guy who criticized the US for 'not giving enough money' during the Southeast Asia Tsunami in 2004.

[GeronL]

Jan Boy. You is dumb

[familyop]

"Egeland said the tensions were the worst he had seen in the more than 20 years he has been working to promote peace and human rights in the Middle East, including a stint as a soldier..."

LOL!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

"....in the last 20 years including 1978...."

Got it. I vote for an immediate UN resolution that you go and take some remedial math lessons.