Why no outrage over attacks on Israeli civilians?

FINTAN LANE of Anti-War Ireland (Irish Examiner letters, August 21) urges Irish people to “continue to raise their voices against such a callous disregard for human life” regarding Israeli actions in the Middle East conflict.

However, when it comes to the callous and deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians by Hezbollah and their Iranian and Syrian-backed sponsors, both Mr Lane and the Irish anti-war movement’s voice remains deafeningly silent.

The current conflict was started when a terrorist organisation, operating without opposition on a supposedly sovereign state’s soil, deliberately kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. While there may be some justification for arguments that the Israeli reaction may have been too severe, there seems to be little focus on why they had to engage in such action in the first place.