Disproportionate response?

Over the past few weeks more than one British Government official has stated that the Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon were "disproportionate" compared with the attacks of Hezbollah on Israel.
Now even a respected American newspaper - no less than the New York Times - has published pictures of the devastation wreaked upon Beirut by Israeli bombs. I don't know what the NYT was trying to prove with the pictures they displayed. Perhaps that the victorious Israelis would win. Perhaps that the Israelis were hitting only selected targets. Perhaps that Israel was over-reacting.
Reading through the article by John Kiener it seems that the latest targets were infrastructure points which were mainly in northern Beirut in the predominantly Christian area of the city. A Christian Lebanese is quoted as saying "where are the Katyushas (rockets) of the Hezbollah here?" It is refreshing to see the an American newspaper is showing the bad side of the Jewish invasion of Lebanon. I hope George Bush is taking note and thinking very hard about what bombs Americans supply to Israel.
Likewise I hope that Hezbollah is looking at all the people who are dying in Lebanon - most of whom have little or no allegiance to their cause. Can they really live with themselves and be sure of a place in heaven with the deaths of all these people on their shoulders?
Why can't they just talk and learn the basics of any religion - namely that the people around you, whatever their beliefs, are just like you. They have aspirations, they have needs and hopes. They also have human frames which can be destroyed by bombs and rockets.
It doesn't matter what each individual believes - killing any one of them for a religious belief is nothing other than murder.
And helping the murderers - either Syria supplying rockets or America supplying tanks and bombs - is just as mortal a sin as if the presidents of Syria or the USA pushed the button to release the carnage themselves.
See the New York Times aerial pictures of the destruction of Beirut for yourself at:
http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/
and make your own judgement . . .