.........columnist got his facts wrong......

"Furthermore, Mr. Todd’s implication that Israel is targeting Lebanese civilians and not taking even minimum precautions to protect them, borders on the worst kind of bias. Israel has showered Beirut with millions of leaflets hours before any raids. Israel did the same in south Lebanon, asking people to move back 20 kilometres. It even invited television crews to film its preparations on the northern border, something that NBC military analyst and U.S. Medal of Honour winner Col. Jack Jacobs called wonderfully humanitarian but militarily “stupid” because it put Israel’s soldiers at risk by exposing their positions to Hezbollah."