If the Israelis tried to avoid civilian casualties, how come so many died?

ON Tuesday last, Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, was interviewed on RTÉ.

She called for the removal of Ehud Olmert as prime minister of Israel because he agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon. Unfortunately, the interviewer did not mention that Ms Glick used to be a foreign policy adviser to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Likud opposition.

Her interview was as offensive as it was insensitive. “We should never have let anyone to begin discussing a ceasefire,” she declared, as she denounced Olmert.