Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Here's the other problem. Knowing our hesitancy regarding collateral damage, Hezbollah and Hamas frequently launch their attacks from civilian targets.

I'm sorry, if Hezbollah is launching rockets out of a Lebanese school at an Israeli school, the Israelis have a right to see to it that it stops.

I think the qualifier here would be that the Hezbollah gunmen are the target, not the school (they just happen to occupy the same space).
Just for clarification - this is not the type of attack on civilian targets I was aiming at with my hypothetical poll question.
In such a case the correct question would be:

"Can the bombing of civilian targets be justified in the defense of your life and the lives of your family?"

(which would add another dimension to the issue)

This is why I chose "freedom" as a "value" to defend which would be more comparable to defending "Islam" as in the original poll question IMO.