"• Hezbollah instigated the current crisis by crossing the border and killing and capturing Israeli soldiers without provocation. Israel has responded by destroying elements of Lebanon's infrastructure used by Hezbollah. But Hezbollah operates from densely populated urban neighborhoods as well as villages. Civilian deaths are accumulating at about 10 Lebanese for every one Israeli, and hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have been displaced. Israel's targeted destruction in Lebanon has made Israel appear as the aggressor rather than the victim of Hezbollah's attacks. Meanwhile, as Syria takes in Lebanese refugees with open arms, its image is being rehabilitated in Lebanon."

"• So far Hezbollah has fired more than 1,000 katyushas into northern Israel. Their goal is to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, and they pack the warheads with ball bearings and other crude shrapnel to increase lethality. Hezbollah aims its rockets at Israeli cities and fires, not caring who they hit. Haifa, the city that has received the most katyusha strikes, is the largest "mixed" city in Israel, where Arab and Jewish Israelis work and live side by side. The rockets hitting that city are killing and maiming Arabs as well as Jews."

from here.