Israel has the right to defend itself, no-one should dispute that right.
However, the manner in which Israel goes about defending itself, leaves much to be desired.
British policy in Northern Ireland, faced with a similar situation with regards to the IRA, never reacted in such a way.
The thought of British troops shelling Dublin, with the loss of civilian life that is currently being illustrated in the Lebanon, defies logic and would have outraged the world had it happened ...and rightly so.
During WW2, if a German soldier was killed by an eastern European partisan, an entire village payed the price. There's an irony here that seems to be lost on the Israeli's.
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