[Arizona Republic] Editorial - Hizballah terrorists wear no uniforms. They intentionally locate their rocket launchers and heavy weaponry in densely populated areas precisely to take advantage of the reluctance of the Israeli army to shower its formidable firepower down upon places like Qana. Only the fact that Israelis have built stout underground shelters for their citizens rather than using them as human shields in front of their enemies' rockets has kept their death totals low. That is the essential difference in the "proportionality" by which so many in the West insist on judging this conflict. One side cares about the civilian death toll in this terrible Middle East conflict, and one side revels in it.
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