Collective punishment?

Is that what it we called it when the Allies were blasting the hell out of Germany and Japan?

Just curious.

Innocent civilians being killed in Lebanon? No doubt. As in Israel.

But the analogy to WWII is unavoidable; the Allies were fighting to stop the terror inflicted by Hitler's Germany and Tojo's Japan, and the British literally for their lives. Israel is fighting for her life and to stop the terror that has rained down upon her villages for years. So it pains and infuriates me to hear a BBC reporter, of all people, assert quite smugly that Israel is "over reacting" and even "guilty of war crimes."

Perhaps the time for Lebanon to have cried for help and intervention would have been when they saw that Hezbollah was taking over their south and their politics, and that their intent to destroy Israel was certain to put Lebanon in danger.