Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
I'm not trying to agitate you. I'm seriously perplexed as to how you think Israel would just ride into Lebanon every time Hezbollah fires a rocket, and manage to do it with no civilian casualties, and manage to keep the rest of the world from condemning them for not respecting Lebanon's sovereign right to maintain a border.

I also don't understand the concept that if Hezbollah attacks Israel, and Israel fires back, if they kill more civilians then Hezbollah, somehow Israel is solely to blame.
There is the principle of proportionate violence. In Palestine, Israel was firing more than 10x the number of shells as they had been receiving. We all know what's been happening with Lebanon.

If Hezbollah had fired 20 rockets into civilian areas (military targets don't count), Israel would be justified in sending back a similar number, perhaps even up to 2x or 3x. The Lebanese themselves were expecting that kind of response, so even they would not have complained had the Israelis retaliated thus and inflicted civilian casualties. But Israel, as is their wont, overdid it exponentially. If they wanted to take their gloves off, they should have declared war on Lebanon before going in.