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The Todal wrote:

If you want to argue "who started it" you could start at any point and
arrive at a different answer. I am not convinced that 12th July is the
right
date to start the chronology. I suspect that the Wikipedia account
largely
mirrors the official Israeli account which is given at
http://www.israel.org/MFA/Terrorism-...06.htm#summary
or
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/mal...llah_upd1e.pdf

The BBC reports suggest that on 28th May, Hezbollah fired some rockets
onto
Israeli military targets on Israeli soil (Mount Miron) which at that time
triggered an Israeli response consisting of warplane attacks on militant
bases in Lebanon. If the Israeli account is accurate, Hezbollah were
mainly
targeting military sites up to 12th July but some of their rockets fell
on
Israeli civilians, whether by accident or not.

12th July may be the right date to start the chronology, but the year
would probably end in "BC"!!

It's interesting to note that among the abject condemnation of Israel
here, comments such as ".................but
some of their rockets fell on Israel civilians, whether by accident or
not........................." accompanies comments
on Hezbollah! The differential treatment of the two is quite easy to
see.

There is a reason for this.

Hezbollah: terrorists, limited budget and choice of weapons, do not
necessarily have the skill or the technology to aim their rockets precisely,
probably would have preferred to attack soldiers (major blow to morale of
Israeli military) rather than a few shepherds whom nobody will particularly
miss, until after Israel started attacking Lebanese cities whereupon it was
important to show that they could hit Israeli cities.

IDF: sophisticated well-equipped army and air force, does nothing without
careful assessments by highly skilled and well-paid military strategists,
have command of the skies so that they can see precisely what they are
targetting. If they demolish all the city tower blocks within a one mile
radius, it is because they want to.

And both regard innocent civilians as expendable in the service of a greater
cause.