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2009-01-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel may be using 'banned' weapons in Gaza

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 Those damned Juice. Violating an agreement they're not party to.

And I'll bet they break all the cricket rules when they play rugby.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-10 00:22|| 2009-01-10 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 In case you are interested, Dense inert metal explosive reduce collateral damage by restricting the lethal range of the explosion.

Although the casual reader of this article would get the impression DIME is a particularly nasty type of explosive, when it is in fact an explosive designed to reduce casualties in urban environments.

Posted by phil_b 2009-01-10 00:23|| 2009-01-10 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Hamas just dusted off the Hezbollah media playbook. Even using the same useless fools

Can't they get their own fools? It's not like there is a world-wide fool shortage.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-10 00:25|| 2009-01-10 00:25|| Front Page Top

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-10 01:48|| 2009-01-10 01:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Yup, they are using WP *SMOKE* rounds, not WP anti-personnel rounds. There's a major difference. They use the smoke rounds to cover movement of troops to prevent casualties from snipers. We used them in Iraq. A lot of them in Fallujah.

Nothing to see, move along. Normal media attempting to grow any little pimple they can find into a mountain.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-01-10 01:50|| 2009-01-10 01:50|| Front Page Top

#6 In other words, the rounds are either being fired ON IDF forces for screening or between the forces and a source of hostile fire. Much of it could be IDF troops calling for smoke rounds on their own positions.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-01-10 01:52|| 2009-01-10 01:52|| Front Page Top

#7 All weapons are banned to the Jews under traditional European laws.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-10 04:16|| 2009-01-10 04:16|| Front Page Top

#8 However, neither Israel, nor the US are signatories to the UN protocol.

I blame Bushitler for this. No... wait....

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-10 08:03|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-10 08:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Just wait until the Jews unleash their most fearsome weapon yet. The sterilization ray!

Side effects:

Loss of sexual prowess
Urge to wear earth tones
Urge to save the planet from ourselves

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-10 09:52|| 2009-01-10 09:52|| Front Page Top

#10 a genetics teacher and researcher

Clearly an expert in weaponry, that one.

Posted by eLarson 2009-01-10 10:04|| 2009-01-10 10:04|| Front Page Top

#11 The Juice are firing satellite based "Stupidity Rays" into Gaza, a clear violation of international law. Apparently they've been doing this for several years.

Posted by Omusomp Fillmore4563 2009-01-10 10:53|| 2009-01-10 10:53|| Front Page Top

#12 "However, neither Israel, nor the US are signatories to the UN protocol."

But HAMAS is one of the signatories of the Geneva Conventions protocol...right? Oh wait just sec...thier the "victims". Never mind.

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-01-10 11:54|| 2009-01-10 11:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Improved Zionist version of the infamous "Tesla Death Ray"...

Posted by borgboy 2009-01-10 12:12|| 2009-01-10 12:12|| Front Page Top

#14 and suicide vest, momemakets rocket filled with nails and ball bearings arne't banned?

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-01-10 13:30|| 2009-01-10 13:30|| Front Page Top

#15 In effect, the Nuremberg Tribunal banned Hamas's chief weapon, genocide-inciting propaganda, by hanging its chief proponent, one Julius Streicher.

Somebody should warn these tools.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-10 14:33|| 2009-01-10 14:33|| Front Page Top

#16 White phosphorus is banned against civilians, but there are no civilians! They have been warned to get out and anyone left is obviously Hamas so this is fair fighting.

Posted by ThealingBorgia122 2009-01-10 15:06|| 2009-01-10 15:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Ah the Norwegian "doctor".
He's also an expert on CPR.

Posted by European Conservative 2009-01-10 16:59|| 2009-01-10 16:59|| Front Page Top

#18 an independent Italian group of academics, researchers and professionals
said Paola Manduca, a genetics teacher and researcher

So what makes a genetics teacher (not to mention academics, researchers and professionals) qualified to discuss weapons of war as an expert. Being a professional software engineer doesn't make me an qualified expert in Genetics.

Didn't they make this exact claim during Fallujah?

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-10 18:06|| 2009-01-10 18:06|| Front Page Top

#19 but there are no civilians!

Sorry, TB122. That sounds an awful lot like the bullsh*t Paleo argument that all Israelis are valid targets because they eventually grow up to serve in the IDF. And, as crosspatch pointed out in #5, the WP rounds are smoke, not anti-personnel.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-10 18:11|| 2009-01-10 18:11|| Front Page Top

#20 She stayed at a Holiday Inn, CF. Twice.

Posted by ed 2009-01-10 18:24|| 2009-01-10 18:24|| Front Page Top

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