Edited sentence: and to israel, every life matters.because israel knew that these men are not sitting in holding cells; they're being totured, horrifically tortured in a way we can't even understand.but proportional means that they strike back however is necessary.gilad shalit can be included with the other two soldiers, who were the reason israel went to war with hizbollah.hiszbollah came onto israeli borders and kidnapped soliders.hizbollah initiated the war.israel gave gaza to the palestinian arabs and from the moment they moved in, they turned in into a missle launch pad and used it to smuggle in weapons from egypt.it is controversial because people think for it to be proportional, israel has to do the same thing, kidnapp 3 soldiers.nothing led to the conflict in gaza.that is an act of war.that's what it means in terms of war.there was fighting from the very start