Israel is obviously not just targeting the Hezbullah...the
IDF is taking out roads, bridges, and other basic components of Lebanon's infrastructure:
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Dozens killed in airstrikes
Thirty-seven people have been killed in Lebanon today but Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres says Israel is not planning to attack Iran or Syria, declaring the Jewish state already had its "hands full".
In addition, the number of wounded in Lebanon since hostilities broke out on July 12 is more than 500, according to tallies based on official figures.
The vast majority of the dead - 225 of them - have been civilians, some 30 of them foreigners, with the remainder being 23 soldiers and six fighters of Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah.
Israel's count is 25 dead - 13 civilians in Hezbollah rocket attacks, and 12 servicemen.
The fighting was triggered when Hezbollah seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight in a cross-border raid on northern Israel on July 12.
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so when does the Israeli response become disproportionate? they've already racked up 10x as many bodies...
and the US does not want to see the carnage end any time soon:
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U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution on Mideast
(CNN) -- The United States on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Israel halt its attacks in Gaza.
The proposal also demanded that Palestinian militants release the Israeli soldier abducted June 25 in a raid in Israel and stop launching rockets at Israel from Gaza. In addition, it called on Israel to release Palestinian government officials and lawmakers it took into custody after the soldier's abduction.
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why are the 200 or so innocent civilians killed in the retaliation not a bigger tragedy than the 8 soldiers killed in the initial attack?
it is obviously convenient to US neocon policymakers to allow, if not encourage, these hostilities to further instigate action against Iran and Syria. as we have seen in Iraq, the "pro-life" Bush administration isn't particularly bothered about people getting killed in the furtherance of their political objectives.