"An overwhelming majority of articles (55%) explicitly blamed Hezbollah for starting or causing the war. Only 11 percent of the articles blamed Israel, and 9 percent blamed both sides equally. Interestingly, the rest of the articles blamed Iran (9%), Syria (8%) or the United States (5%). Articles that blamed Hezbollah tended to also blame Iran and Syria, while those that blamed Israel tended to also lay the blame on the US. Sixty five percent of articles portrayed Israel as the victim in the conflict, while only 13 percent portrayed Hezbollah (but not Lebanon) that way. Twenty two percent presented both sides as victims of a bigger conflict, and those tended to mention the ‘proxy war’ theory between the US, on one side, and Syria and Iran, on the other. Lebanon was treated as a country external to Hezbollah in most articles and was almost always (97%) portrayed as the victim of the war." (thanks Jad)