Proportion and number of civilian deaths
[link|http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008675|Keeping Things in Proportion]
What's more, if this report from [link|http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3278026,00.html|YnetNews.com] is correct, Hezbollah is trying to maximize Lebanese civilian deaths, presumably for its own propaganda purposes:
The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] has found that Hizbullah is preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon. Roadblocks have been set up outside some of the villages to prevent residents from leaving, while in other villages Hizbullah is preventing UN representatives from entering, who are trying to help residents leave. In two villages, exchanges of fire between residents and Hizbullah have broken out.
As hard as it may be for people brought up in the West to understand this, the value of life in the Arab world is just not the same as in the West.
