From:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/12/mideast/index.html
[Shortly after the abduction of the 2 Israeli soldiers]
"Earlier, Israel's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, told Israel's Channel 10, "If the soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.""
From:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=92798&ch=0
" 24 July 2006 | 09:44 | FOCUS News Agency
Tel Aviv. Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff General Dan Halutz promised to bomb 10 residential buildings in Beirut for every rocket attack against Israel’s third biggest city of Haifa, Israeli online site Haaretz reports."
It would appear that the Old Testament commandment "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" has been upgraded to "Ten eyes for an eye and ten teeth for a tooth".
I suppose 10:1 is a proportion in strict mathematical terms.
Joe McGonagle
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