The protocols provided for Professional Journalists, in the site provided, are common for all European media.

As usual, Lev's ethics are questionable. I will not refer to the story in question. Paul has, as always, more than ably addressed this.

However ...

If you deliberately and irresponsibly place yourself in a dangerous situation, it is your responsibility alone if you are killed. This becomes an ethical situation if you have others, such as family reliant upon you.

If you knowingly and unnecessarily place yourself, and with disregard for others, in a dangerous situation, it is completely unethical; especially if there are innocent bystanders.

Israel never deliberately targets civilians. Hamas imbed themselves within civilian groups. When Israelis have been aware of Hamas doing so, they have aborted defensive operations. Tragically, there have been failures due to chain of command. Those who know what "chain of command" means, will understand.

Israel has never targetted schools or hospitals. Hamas have, and celebrate it.

If Lev bothers to read my comments, I have rarely mentioned Hamas' hideous charter against Israel. It speaks for itself.

But ... I have constantly and frequently damned Hamas for their treatment of their own people. The exploitation, terrorism and murders. Hamas use innocent deaths - those killed because Hamas have used them as shields - as propoganda. The more innocents killed this way, the more Hamas rejoice.

One can only assume, due to Lev's total silence on Hamas' abuse of their own people, that he sees this as both ethically and morally sound. Others see this as unconscienceable.

For a race of people that has suffered so much over the years, modern Israeli leaders show an unfortunate lack of humility - almost as if such is not needed because they have so much rightness on their sides?

Such is so possibly that despite being pushed down for hundreds of years, the Jewish race has produced individuals such as Einstein et al, proving that it is a religion that has been beneficial especially to Western thought.

Also the historical proof that the bulk of the students attending the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt were Jews, not only shows that progressive-minded Jews did benefit from Hellenistic culture, but also that the Jewish boy Jesus could also have been influenced by such culture.

There was a saying in the bush about Jewish traders or woolbuyers that though they were friendly enough doing deals in the woolsheds, it was hard to get them to come into the homestead for a cuppa, either that most of them have a chip on their shoulder, or it wa s part of their religion not to do so.

Even so, it was far different mixing with them in the Australian military during WW2, often establishing mateships which found them in action willing to die with and for those of different religions. Such has also happened in sport, which has always been a good medium for getting people to mix better.

One could also question how many Jews hold high positions in our universities when only last night on Foxtel we had the Sky political commentator discussing the Afghanistan problem with who looked as severe as one of our ASIO officials and an Islamic professor from one of our universities, the academic appearing much more eager to discuss sharing the blame in Afghanistan than the other, who continually harped on terrorism

Cheers – BB, WA