As long as I dropped by the blog today, let me also commend to your attention Professor Cole’s discussion of the Israeli attack on Lebanon and its civilian population.  You should scroll down for other useful discussion, both of the Hezbollah attacks and the Israeli responses.  You can also scroll down this website for quite graphic reminders of what the human consequences of military assaults look like.  This is useful to bear in mind in weighing the question of what is gently called the "proportionality" of the Israeli response.