• Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon

    From Susan Cohen@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 13 16:32:00 2023
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    (Beirut, October 12, 2023) – Israel’s use of white phosphorus in
    military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of
    serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in
    releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus. Human
    Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10
    and 11, 2023, respectively, showing multiple airbursts of
    artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border, and interviewed two people
    who described an attack in Gaza.

    White phosphorus, which can be used either for marking, signaling, and obscuring, or as a weapon to set fires that burn people and objects,
    has a significant incendiary effect that can severely burn people and
    set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on
    fire. The use of white phosphorus in Gaza, one of the most densely
    populated areas in the world, magnifies the risk to civilians and
    violates the international humanitarian law prohibition on putting
    civilians at unnecessary risk.

    “Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it
    poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,” said
    Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights
    Watch. “White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst
    in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause
    egregious harm to civilians.”

    <continue reading>

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon



    Benjamin Netanyahu should be hanged as a war criminal.

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  • From Lasse Langwadt Christensen@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 13 14:27:48 2023
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  • From Ralph Mowery@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 13 18:36:44 2023
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    In article <k99jiihnbfsajmugngthgm6prutmp8ajpu@4ax.com>,
    thickirish@cunt.com says...

    ?Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it
    poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,? said
    Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights
    Watch. ?White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst
    in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause
    egregious harm to civilians.?



    I do not know what was used by the US in WW2 in Japan but we fire bombed
    a city and burnt it to the ground. The 2 nukes killed many of the
    citizens. Some of that was allegedy for pay back for the attack at
    Pearl Harbor. Seems we did not worry about human rights back then.

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  • From Phil Allison@21:1/5 to Ralph Mowery on Fri Oct 13 18:29:26 2023
    Ralph Mowery wrote:
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    I do not know what was used by the US in WW2 in Japan but we fire bombed
    a city and burnt it to the ground.

    ** It was good old Napalm, ignited by a white phosphorus fuse.

    See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo


    The 2 nukes killed many of the
    citizens. Some of that was allegedy for pay back for the attack at
    Pearl Harbor.

    ** Fake news.

    The aim was to finally shock Japan into surrendering and end the war pronto.
    It worked.

    Seems we did not worry about human rights back then.

    ** Japan never did - see one example:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre


    .... Phil

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  • From Jan Panteltje@21:1/5 to thickirish@cunt.com on Sat Oct 14 05:26:11 2023
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    On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:32:00 -0400) it happened Susan Cohen <thickirish@cunt.com> wrote in <k99jiihnbfsajmugngthgm6prutmp8ajpu@4ax.com>:

    (Beirut, October 12, 2023) – Israel’s use of white phosphorus in
    military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of
    serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in
    releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus. Human
    Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10
    and 11, 2023, respectively, showing multiple airbursts of
    artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural >locations along the Israel-Lebanon border, and interviewed two people
    who described an attack in Gaza.

    White phosphorus, which can be used either for marking, signaling, and >obscuring, or as a weapon to set fires that burn people and objects,
    has a significant incendiary effect that can severely burn people and
    set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on
    fire. The use of white phosphorus in Gaza, one of the most densely
    populated areas in the world, magnifies the risk to civilians and
    violates the international humanitarian law prohibition on putting
    civilians at unnecessary risk.

    “Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it
    poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,” said
    Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights
    Watch. “White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst
    in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause
    egregious harm to civilians.”

    It is funny how the US just stated that Israel should respect the 'rules of war' I think they call it,
    after US nuked Nagasaki, Hiroshima civilians, used Agent Orange on civilians in Vietnam, used depleted Uranium ammo in Iraq
    and now supplies cluster ammo and depleted Uranium ammo to Ukraine.

    So what is 'rules of war?' there ARE no rules of war.
    If somebody attacked me I would strike back ..

    The repression of Palestinians by Israel and the way Netanyahu had been ruling, land grabs by Israel etc is a clear source of say provocation, causing Hamas to react.
    And the US so happy to sell more arms, I am hundred percent sure US KNEW about the upcoming attack on Israel else US 'intelligence'
    would be even bigger idiots then I already thought.

    So Blinken travelling the world for 'help' most likely is more like trying to sell weapons,
    as Biden is a puppet of the US Military Industrial Complex a people burning machine financed by an ever increasing US debt!
    Maybe nobody should buy US debt, Japan, China, then the US will finally be forced to make some nice stuff that others buy.
    but with the ever lower IQ there that may be a lost case.

    So WW3 is at the horizon, I personally think 2024..
    rules of war? There are none!
    There is an old saying I think: 'Never start a fight that you cannot win'
    Hamas killed many and the reaction of Israel killed even more,
    So maybe politics would be a way out, but then you need different leaders in Israel,
    return the land to the Palestinians, settlements...

    Israel won't.
    When US collapses after getting nuked by the rest of the world (they keep asking)
    maybe after that WW3, if any left, climate change mass migration..
    Human species..
    ?

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  • From Anthony William Sloman@21:1/5 to Jan Panteltje on Fri Oct 13 22:37:47 2023
    On Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 4:26:19 PM UTC+11, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:32:00 -0400) it happened Susan Cohen <thick...@cunt.com> wrote in <k99jiihnbfsajmugn...@4ax.com>:

    <snip>

    So WW3 is at the horizon, I personally think 2024..
    rules of war? There are none!
    There is an old saying I think: 'Never start a fight that you cannot win' Hamas killed many and the reaction of Israel killed even more,
    So maybe politics would be a way out, but then you need different leaders in Israel,
    return the land to the Palestinians, settlements...

    Israel won't.
    When US collapses after getting nuked by the rest of the world (they keep asking)
    maybe after that WW3, if any left, climate change mass migration..
    Human species..
    ?

    Not that Jan Panteltje is a member of the human species. He hasn't proved it by mating with another member of the species and producing off-spring that are recognisably human. He may pass for human, but we'd have to sequences his genome to be sure, and
    my guess is that he'd fail.

    --
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  • From a a@21:1/5 to Fred Bloggs on Sat Oct 14 13:52:05 2023
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  • From Fred Bloggs@21:1/5 to Susan Cohen on Sat Oct 14 06:35:05 2023
    On Friday, October 13, 2023 at 4:32:09 PM UTC-4, Susan Cohen wrote:
    (Beirut, October 12, 2023) – Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of
    serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in
    releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus. Human
    Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10
    and 11, 2023, respectively, showing multiple airbursts of
    artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border, and interviewed two people
    who described an attack in Gaza.

    White phosphorus, which can be used either for marking, signaling, and obscuring, or as a weapon to set fires that burn people and objects,
    has a significant incendiary effect that can severely burn people and
    set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on
    fire. The use of white phosphorus in Gaza, one of the most densely
    populated areas in the world, magnifies the risk to civilians and
    violates the international humanitarian law prohibition on putting
    civilians at unnecessary risk.

    “Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,” said
    Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights
    Watch. “White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst
    in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause
    egregious harm to civilians.”

    <continue reading>

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon



    Benjamin Netanyahu should be hanged as a war criminal.

    HRW is out to lunch. There is no tactical or strategic reason for Israel to be using white phosphorus in Gaza, at this point of time. Many of the traditional reasons for its use are totally obsolete. If anyone is observing a white phosphorus detonation,
    it almost certainly due to a bomb or artillery hit on an Hamas weapons cache containing the incendiary. The mid-air explosion looks more like a rocket intercept than an airburst.

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  • From a a@21:1/5 to Jan Panteltje on Sat Oct 14 13:52:42 2023
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  • From Fred Bloggs@21:1/5 to Ralph Mowery on Sat Oct 14 07:23:26 2023
    On Friday, October 13, 2023 at 6:36:54 PM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
    In article <k99jiihnbfsajmugn...@4ax.com>,
    thick...@cunt.com says...

    ?Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,? said
    Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights
    Watch. ?White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst
    in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause
    egregious harm to civilians.?



    I do not know what was used by the US in WW2 in Japan but we fire bombed
    a city and burnt it to the ground.

    That would be Tokyo bombing of March 1945, five months before the surrender. The death toll was estimated at 200,000 by the U.S. And at the time Japan confirmed the estimate, but only to downplay the damage. More modern analysis of digitized vital
    statistics kept by Japan have since upgraded the the actual death toll to a more realistic 1.5 million deaths.


    The 2 nukes killed many of the
    citizens. Some of that was allegedy for pay back for the attack at
    Pearl Harbor. Seems we did not worry about human rights back then.

    The U.S. was being quite deceptive with their B-29 bombings. It was known at the time the atomic bomb was on the way, so they targeted militarily important cities in Japan for which immediate destruction was vital, but they left some cities un-bombed and
    pristine because they wanted as stark a contrast as possible post-nuke. That would be Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Kyoto for sure, and maybe some others on standby in the event of weather interference ( which got Nagasaki and saved Kyoto btw). The bomb used
    on Hiroshima was the world's first dirty bomb. The A-bomb developers knew they had a problem with storage and disposal of excess U-235, so they packed it in the very primitive Hiroshima bomb. The Hiroshima bomb did not use the implosion method of
    detonation, it used a gun trigger. The gun trigger uses a low explosive to send half the critical mass down a small gun barrel at very high velocity, which then collided into more critical mass at the terminus, causing a low yield detonation, estimated
    to be approximately 1%, which is probably and overestimate and lie. So the overwhelming mass of the nuclear material went unreacted to be scattered to the four winds. This was an effect the strategists were intentionally striving for. Succeeding bombs
    used implosion. That and more caused the 'ultimate' death toll to be MUCH MUCH greater than the anyone admitted to. Everyone thinks Truman ordered the bomb drop, but in reality, he did no such thing. The only order Truman ever gave was to stop dropping
    them entirely, after he saw the aerial reconnaissance of the destruction in Hiroshima. The first bombings were already pre-authorized during the Roosevelt administration and their orders were to proceed when ready, no executive level permission required.

    The WW2 fire bombing of Hamburg and Dresden were just as horrendous.

    All these incendiaries use gelatinous petroleum, gasoline or diesel, which is first dispersed and then later ignited by something intense like phosphorus. The idea is the gelatin hits and sticks to a point area, so when ignited it will burn at one
    concentrated spot at very high intensity, causing the target to combust.

    The fire bombings were much more than just dumping a load of bombs. There was very careful assessment of the flammability of the target areas, in addition to the idea they would ignite a bunch of small fires over a wide area which would then coalesce
    into a humongous firestorm engulfing the entire city.

    Long history here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_device

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  • From whit3rd@21:1/5 to Jan Panteltje on Sat Oct 14 09:53:51 2023
    On Friday, October 13, 2023 at 10:26:19 PM UTC-7, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:32:00 -0400) it happened Susan Cohen <thick...@cunt.com> wrote in <k99jiihnbfsajmugn...@4ax.com>:
    (Beirut, October 12, 2023) – Israel’s use of white phosphorus in >military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of
    serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in
    releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus. Human
    Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10
    and 11, 2023, respectively, showing multiple airbursts of
    artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural >locations along the Israel-Lebanon border, and interviewed two people
    who described an attack in Gaza.

    White phosphorus, which can be used either for marking, signaling, and >obscuring, or as a weapon to set fires that burn people and objects,
    has a significant incendiary effect that can severely burn people and
    set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on >fire. The use of white phosphorus in Gaza, one of the most densely >populated areas in the world, magnifies the risk to civilians and
    violates the international humanitarian law prohibition on putting >civilians at unnecessary risk.

    “Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it >poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,” said >Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights
    Watch. “White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst
    in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause >egregious harm to civilians.”
    It is funny how the US just stated that Israel should respect the 'rules of war' I think they call it,
    after US nuked Nagasaki, Hiroshima civilians, used Agent Orange on civilians in Vietnam, used depleted Uranium ammo in Iraq
    and now supplies cluster ammo and depleted Uranium ammo to Ukraine.

    So what is 'rules of war?' there ARE no rules of war.
    If somebody attacked me I would strike back ..

    By treaty and precedent, some rules DO apply to armed conflict,
    and are important for... eventual peace and peace treaties.

    There is an old saying I think: 'Never start a fight that you cannot win'

    Exactly how Gandhi saw it. There's a problem with use of violence, in
    that it causes a delay in any kind of peace and reconciliation. Nonviolent means are the quickest path, the best precursor, to any satisfactory
    peaceful result.

    If there's no peace, no one wins anything of importance.

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