"To me the victims are all the innocents killed or injured on both sides of this conflict. " True, victimns of terrorist attacks by the other side. The huge majority of those have been killed by the IDF, but the smaller number killed by Hezbollah's rockets are just as dead, and just as innocent.

And all this has happened because of a conflict arbitrarily escalated out of a stupid skirmish. The suggestion that this all happened in response to a rain of Hezbollah rockets and shells across the border in recent months or even years, is just not true.

If you hit someone on the head with a meat-axe not many courts would be impressed by the claim you were trying to kill a wasp which had been sitting on the dead man's forehead. (Typical cowardly wasp behaviour.)