Israel Has Used White Phosphorus on 17 Towns in Lebanon Since October
Israel Has Used White Phosphorus on 17 Towns in Lebanon Since October
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Israel Has Used White Phosphorus on 17 Towns in Lebanon Since October
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The Hamas human shields thing is a lie propagated by Israel. Hamas operate in Gaza, an extremely densely populated area, and Israel’s blockade turns it into an open air prison. Hamas operating near civilians is necessary because there is nowhere they can go that isn’t full of civilians. There’s little evidence to suggest that Hamas intentionally puts civilians in more danger than they would otherwise be, they just have no choice.
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I hate that I ever even bought that line. No shit they operate out of mosques and shit. Where the hell else would they operate out of in such a limited region.
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Also worth noting, Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
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I hope i get this across without getting pedantic responses.
So why is Hamas allowed to be excused for using human shields because of the population density where there is no choice, but civilians being killed by Israeli attack are completely unacceptable? Surely if its so density they don't have a choice then Israel doesn't either.
Other poster is correct, civilians on both sides are the only innocent ones here. No need to excuse one side as "no choice".
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That all makes too much sense so obviously that's not what we're going to get.
We're going to get whatever makes the assholes in power the most money and whatever keeps bibi out of trouble as his legal troubles are postponed untill "major operations are over."
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I don't know if they really claim to hate it. Check out the reference guide: the old testament
Count how many towns, peoples/tribes/etc (women and children included),, animals, god gave explicit permission/instruction to completely wipe off the face of the earth.
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Lebanon does not have Hamas. They have Hezbollah.
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Very well put. I think the only way out of this, post war, is for a Palestinian state to exist. Proper UN membership. The only way this is going to happen is if Hamas goes. Hamas must die. Israel is using every excuse they can to prolong this war and Hamas is giving them plenty of excuses. Everybody sucks here except the civilians who are hopelessly trapped.
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How can Israel attack another country and not be at war already?
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Israel has been doing this forever, I can't even count the times in which they violated our airspace to bomb Syria.
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My guess is that they are attacking Hezbollah-controlled parts of Lebanon and the Lebanese government doesn't acknowledge their legitimacy.
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When they start attacking the rest of the world while arguing that they are eradicating mosquitos, people may notice that something is wrong
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Israel is USA's spoiled brat. They've been violating international laws for decades now and no one dares touch them, otherwise Karen USA will start throwing a tantrum about it.
Have fun reading on how Israel has violated Lebanon's airspace 22355 times since 2007.
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Yayyyyy warcrimes!
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That's nothing, give them some more time and they will use that stuff in EVERY town! Genociding has many Israeli flavors! They learned this from the Germans. Fucking sad.
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Stopped reading the second it mentioned genocide. Any reporter who uses that term without yndwrstanding it, isn’t someone who should be taken seriously. Rwanda. That was an attempt at genocide, the systematic destruction of the Chinese Uyghurs is a type of genocide. Hiding combatants and hostages among the civilians and acting shocked when the civilians are killed isn’t a genocide, it’sa sign that everyone supports the fighting.
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Man, I want so much to be on Israel’s side since they are our only ally in the region but they are making it very difficult.
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They've never been our ally in any meaningful way. They used nuclear blackmail against Nixon to bail themselves out when they lost the Yom Kippur war. They blew up the USS Liberty and machine gunned my great uncle in the water. And they were literally the reason for 9/11, straight from the mouth of bin laden.
How much aid money did they send us after 9/11?
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I love the implication that in an alternate universe, where the US is allied with Germany for some reason, the response to the holocaust would be unconditional support.
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We have Arab countries that are far better allies and host actual military bases.
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Can we all please admit they're committing war crimes now?
Anyone who isn't admitting it yet isn't going to start doing so because of evidence.
Haven't they been burning people down with white phosphorus for decades? They aren't gonna start admitting it now.
I can hope.
What we should be pleading for is a mandated reassessment by the State Department now that it’s clear they suppressed relevant information on the previous report.
I think any citizen who is paying attention knows Israel is committing war crimes. We need intelligence to confirm what we, the UN, the ICC, and the ICJ all see so that the support can end.
You would be surprised even on
LennyLemmy how many deny Israel’s crimes.edit: Stupid autocorrect.
This one actually gets really technical. It's legal if you don't use shells meant to disperse into shrapnel, and you use it for purely military purposes like smoking out enemy positions or screening the advance of ground forces.
But Israel is totally violating both of those things and has been for decades.
Everyone knows it. Zionists don't give a shit because they're a garbage people.
There are 11,195,792 reasons they won't admit Israel is committing war crimes
Do you know where that graphic comes from? The data on opensecrets.org indicates that Biden has received $5,688,069 between 1990 and 2024.
I'm not disagreeing that this is a problem. This is undoubtedly a route through which foreign money is making it into US politics and Biden is one of the biggest recipients of Pro-Israel funds. It just isn't as much money as indicated by the graphic. It is $5,688,069 spread over 34 years but loaded heavily to more recent years.
Biden donations from Pro-Israel sources by election cycle:
All other election cycles, Biden doesn't appear in the top 20. Simple math indicates that, outside of 2019, 2020, 2023, and 2024, Biden received an additional $475,360 over the rest of his career.
I don't like to see that Biden received $3,753,304 in the 2019-2020 campaign cycle. That is way too much foreign influence in my opinion, even if it technically came from American organizations. That said, Biden spent $1,614,843,740 in 2019-2020 meaning that only 0.23% of that was from Pro-Israel groups.
It's messed up, but using white phosphorus isn't banned under international law.
White phosphorus munitions are not banned under international law, but because of their incendiary effects, their use is supposed to be tightly regulated.[57] Because white phosphorus has legal uses, shells filled with it are not directly prohibited by international humanitarian law. Experts consider them not as incendiary, but as masking, since their main goal is to create a smoke screen.[58]
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/