“Since Israel uses its arms to protect its civilians, whereas Hamas uses its civilians to protect its weapons, there has been a predictable asymmetry of casualties. But proportionality is not a tit-for-tat numbers game. Only perverse logic would deem Israel’s actions more proportionate if Israel allowed more of its civilians to be killed. Proportionality is measured with regard to the threat one faces. In Israel’s case this threat is a stockpile of thousands of rockets and missiles, threatening the bulk of Israel’s population, in the hands of a terrorist regime committed to Israel’s destruction.” (Israeli Ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub writing in the Independent, 15/07/2014)