So just WHO targets and kills civilians??

[skippy3481]

Dixie,
The answer to your question is quite simple. They do not want to be the ones to start world war 3. Lets face it. For a country israels size, they are absolutely loaded. They could carpet bomb lebanon off the map. The problem is if they start a giant pissing match they will end up with 100 million arabs at their doorstep and i know they aren't totally sure if the british/us will come help them. That leaves them 2 options
1-Bomb tactically and try to achieve your goals with a minimal loss of civilian life

2.Throw everything they have at syria-iran-lebanon-including the use of nukes.

THey choose 1 and they found out it didn't work which absolutely terrifies me because only one option is left and there is no way that israel is going to go down without a fight.