Israel used white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says

And apparently claiming roughly 10% of the other countries' land mass for..... "defensive purposes"....?

And killing and starving women and children. What was the definition of pure evil again?

You know when you just need to break into your neighbor’s home for self defense

Wasn't Gaza a country? If it was, then this is twice in a row.. Reminds me of Nazi Germany.. does that make the US Fascist Italy in this regard?

When you look at the origins of Zionism and how they thought of other jews then it starts to make a very sick sense.

They call americans dogs too,even though we've given them trillions over last 80 years. Should have gone to Americans 

They also openly state that their goal is to conquer the entire middle east, they have their sights set on places like Egypt and Turkey. Their politicians openly state they want to glass their neighbors on live TV, their citizens state the same claims as well. Rogue terror state. If any other nation had been doing this in the region, the U.S would have invaded it decades ago.

They're murderous genocidal monsters.

Israel: "Oh the Geneva Bucketlist?"

They’ve forgotten that as much as might makes right, public opinion is equally as important….and they’re not doing so well in the PR department. Tbf they were already doing pretty poorly, but occupying a sovereign nation state and using white phosphorus is unlikely to *improve public perception*

Theyre creating new generations of hatred both nearby and afar. I used to support Israel until I became more educated on the conflict and learned that the Arab Israeli conflict was a sad conflict consisting of atrocities committed by both sides that, until they could both admit it, it would never end. After the recent genocide in Gaza and what they're doing they've gone way beyond the pale. They used to act in defense and go back to their borders. Now they're seizing and holding land. Theyre disgusting.

They are also religious zealots that believe they are superior to the people they are conquering. Israel's list of brutalities against Palestinians is endless and staggering - and the Lebanese are not gonna be any different to them. In their mind, the holy land is infested with Arabs that they need to get rid of. The most radical part of Israeli society would happily start their own Holocaust if they thought they could get away with it.

WWII bombing Hamburg increased factory production since people didnt support the war but wanted to live.

Honestly their cheerleaders, financiers and warmongers in various countries in the west have never paid any price for manipulating the governments of those countries to support these vile crimes. That is the foremost thing that needs to change and needs to change drastically.

Fair point, the world has been watching the most awful scenes come out of Gaza for the last couple of years and quite frankly if that doesn't scare your opponent off, I imagine there's very little other tactics that will work for you

They are trying to ~~scare people~~ start another genocide

Oct-7 gave them (in their minds) an excuse. The events of that day did not cause a sudden personality change. It allowed them to be the worst versions of themselves.

They’ve been doing that for decades. We’re only more privy to it now because of social media and the visibility

They’ve always been this way, they were able to suppress any voices opposing them until very recently. People were losing their jobs for even mentioning Palestinians even at the start of the war.

The giant D9 bulldozers they use to destroy Palestinian homes have slat armor, can be mounted with gun and grenade launchers, and many are now remote controlled. They are built by Caterpillar.

The only thing that has changed after October 7 is the scale of what they do. They've been treating Palestinians and Arabs like this for decades.

They have always been doing this for decades. Tik tok caught them by surprise. It's why Bibi said it's the most important weapon. They have been surpressing their cruelty to Americans via media control.

Social media arguably made all of us worse. There are decades of similar actions, well-documented, but this time there were also IDF troops taking selfies/shooting video and uploading the evidence in real-time to social media. 

Its nothing new, its just that they are more open about it.

Even with Oct 7, Palestinian resistance has been minimal when you look at casualty numbers on both sides while Israel routinely killed hundreds and thousands and detained and tortured tens of thousands of Palestinians often without crime or charge. This is more a crusade than a religious war. On the Palestinian side they just don't want to lose their homes they've been living on for centuries. It's not about their religion because it's the same for Christian and Muslim Palestinians. On Israel's side God promised them the land thousands of years ago so they have a right to remove whoever lives there by force to steal the land.

Magneto would be like 160 in this situation

China, the new adult on the world stage!

Definitely not Germany.  Bibi could napalm bomb half of Gaza and our Bundeskanzleramt would still find some fucked up reason to give a neutral comment or simply say nothing at all.

I mean the whole war is technically a smokescreen from Donald's and Netanyahu's criming....

>The US and Russia are, afaik, not signed onto either, but cluster munitions and landmines don't really find much of a place in US military doctrine anymore.  The US restricts their use of landmines to the DMZ in Korea. We asked for an exception to be put in the Ottawa Convention just for Korea, but the request was denied, and that's why we haven't signed.

You're right about white phosphorous, and the potential ambiguities of its use >On November 8, 2005, the national public broadcasting company of Italy, Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. aired a documentary titled "Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre", which reported that the United States had used white phosphorus as a weapon in Fallujah, and which showed that insurgents and civilians had been killed or injured by chemical burns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah#Use_of_white_phosphorus_as_a_weapon The US still uses cluster bombs. >**It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs, the unexploded ones are the same color as the food packets.** We have dropped fliers that show the pictures and the proper language explain why you want to go to one and you don't want to go to the other. We hope that helps. Another thing we're doing is with the food packets is changing the color of their design. We're going to -- I think it's going to be blue. It obviously will take some time -- we're trying to figure out how long -- to change that color over, because there are many in the pipeline. They were probably yellow because they were very visible and people could see them lying around. The same for the cluster bombs. **Unfortunately, they get used to running to yellow** https://avalon.law.yale.edu/sept11/dod_brief67.asp

None of the US, Russia, Israel, or Iran signed the cluster munitions treaty. Anybody making a deal about them being used in this conflict doesn’t know what they’re talking about or, more likely, is knowingly pushing a narrative agenda.

Incorrect, the Russians do not use WP as an incendiary. They use magnesium based weapons. Not sure who made that story up for you.

You're not wrong and it's been incredibly depressing to see happen in real time. A lot of online progressives have turned more and more towards "BlueAnon" style rhetoric and 'alternative facts', outrage-maxxing everything along the way. It's a mirror image of how Trumpers first poisoned the well back in 2016

See I generally agree with everything you just said, outside of this last sentence that then does come off as legitimately a bit anti-semtic. > That has been their go-to defense/attack for thousands of years. Israel has not been around for "Thousands of years" (at least not in it's current form with its current problems/conflicts), so this just comes off as you trying to downplay historical claims of anti-semitism in general, which obviously are very real and aren't just some made-up defense. I do think this comment is almost a perfect example though, where yeah Israel is insane and claims EVERYTHING is anti-semtic, but also you have these weird trend of these anti-semitic adjacent conspiracy theories (Israel controls the world, Israel controls the media, many of the attacks on Israelis/Jewish people are inside jobs), or some of these weird, innacurate comments, that almost just feel like dog whistles, that just ALWAYS seem to pop up in response.

They act like being called an antisemite is worse than being a murderer of innocent people. Brainwashed cunts