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Israel admits to using phosphorous bombs
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Israel has for the first time admitted it used controversial phosphorus shells during fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon in July and August.
Cabinet minister Jacob Edery confirmed the bombs were dropped "against military targets in open ground".
Israel had previously said the weapons were used only to mark targets.
Phosphorus weapons cause chemical burns and the Red Cross and human rights groups say they should be treated as chemical weapons.
The Geneva Conventions ban the use of white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6075408.stm
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Do we expect any more from a rouge state that slaughters nnocents, fire on civilians and the UN, and defies international law regularly?
Fuck, I missed WW3 breaking out. Do tell me what happened!
Britain is? America is and has been for years... China, I wasn't aware of. Sudan and Congo are torn by civil war... I don't see the est helping them either. I suppose you refer to Russia with Chechnya. I am supprised there are still civilians left there.
The majority of Europe isn't. The majority of hte mid-East isn't. The majority of Scandanavia isn't.
It seems the only people who are attacking civilians are the big bully-boys. However, I only see about two of the nations up there who consitently ignore international warnings about violiting the geneva convention and I only see... none!... who fire on the UN deliberatley with full intention of killing them.
These actions all added up, only Israel can claim to be such a nation as this. One who does ALL the crimes. And doesn't ever get held to account.
I guess you didn't actually read the article.
I did and got several pieces of relevant information.
1) WP is banned against either civilian targets or in air attacks against military targets in civilian areas.
2) Israel used it against military targets in the open.
3) The Red Cross and others want them banned.
4) They are not banned at the moment, therefore they are legal.
Cluster bombs might be 'legal' in the eyes of some nations (shamefully we're one of them) but they are still fucking odious weapons that shouldn't be used anywhere populated areas.
Yet Israel fired tens of thousands of the fuckers in densly populated areas of Lebanon- in the last 3 days of the conflict as well, when a ceasefired had been agreed and hostilities were about to stop. As a result several hundred thousand bomblets litter the country, killing and maiming countless children and farmers going about their business.
There is little surprise about Israel using phosphorous. Nothing, no matter how barbaric, is seen as too much by that vibrant and liberal democracy.
The Lebanese President makes a claim
(actually that's not even a claim its a question and the answer is no for definite in the use of WP and a possible yes for laser guided depending on whether the target they're aimed at is of military value)
But why should I believe him more than
You only need to take a look at the entire Beirut residential neighbourhood destroyed to work out whether Israel were really targetting military targets only...
:eek:
If Israel want to use phosphorous bombs in warfare, who are we to tell them otherwise? They can do what they want. Granted, they will reap the consequences and those consequences will be vaguely proportional to how far they have transgressed the 'laws of war' but why the fuck should anyone listen to us or the US any more so than Paraguay or Nepal? Cos we're the good guys and they're the bad guys?
Not really that, we've got the power and they don't. Israel is allied with America, it can do what it wants. Meh what ya gonna do.
Israel 'used uranium weapons in Lebanon'
Next time someone mentions Iran or North Korea, let's remind ourselves which is the biggest and most dangerous rogue regime of them all shall we?
pretty much the bottom line in all this....
will probly stay that way until there is less zionist influence associated with the american gov!
Iran and North Korea - it's no wonder they want nukes, to save themselves from attacks from nationals like Israela and America! America has been using White Phos for a while too, so it's no supprise Israel followed in her footsteps.
Enriched uranium though... eep.