And what do you do when they brag about it?
Last update - 14:20 12/09/2006Phosphorous is very bad stuff. If you remember, the United States used phosphorus to universal praise condemnation in its attack on Falluja (certain similarities to the IDF Lebanon campaign; first world weapons against a rag tag militia.) Oh, but wait, we didn't really do bad:
IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
By Meron Rappaport
"What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.
In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, widely forbidden by international law. According to their claims, the vast majority of said explosive ordinance was fired in the final 10 days of the war. (emphasis added)
Col Venable denied that white phosphorous constituted a banned chemical weapon.So there! But:
White phosphorus is an incendiary weapon, not a chemical weapon. (Furthermore) Washington is not a signatory to an international treaty restricting the use of the substance against civilians.
The US-led assault on Falluja - a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency west of Baghdad - displaced most of the city's 300,000 population and left many of its buildings destroyed.Damn, the IDF beat us. They displaced at least 1,000,000. Guiness take note.
But that's not all from our pals in the IDF:
The rocket unit commander stated that Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) platforms were heavily used in spite of the fact that they were known to be highly inaccurate.what was that about precision bombing? What? Can't hear you...
MLRS is a track or tire carried mobile rocket launching platform, capable of firing a very high volume of mostly unguided munitions. The basic rocket fired by the platform is unguided and imprecise, with a range of about 32 kilometers. The rockets are designed to burst into sub-munitions at a planned altitude in order to blanket enemy army and personnel on the ground with smaller explosive rounds. (emphasis added)
(h/t Angry Arab)
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Here's an article, Doc, that enlarges on the blatant war crimes.
The Moral Bankruptcy of Israel's Founding Idea
The Coming Collapse of Zionism
By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON
Former CIA Analyst
From the article:-
"In Gaza, where almost a million and a half people are crammed into an area less than one-tenth the size of Rhode Island, Israel is doing on a continuing basis what it did in Lebanon in a month's time -- killing civilians, destroying civilian infrastructure, making the place uninhabitable. Palestinians in Gaza are being murdered at the rate of eight a day. Maimings come at a higher rate. Such is the value of non-Jewish life in the Zionist scheme of things.
Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe calls it a slow genocide (ElectronicIntifada, September 2, 2006)."
Used in the quantities the US used them in Fallujah they are a chemical weapon. A point the apologists never acknowledge.
Thanks Griffon, that was an interesting article. I agree with it except that I find the potential use of a nuclear device by Israel, if backed to the wall, almost inevitable. Little Israel, with 6 million people, but with 200 nuclear weapons, could make the World unliveable.
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