Comments on: MENA: Israel and the Use of White Phosphorous in Gaza

By: reality check

reality check — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:08:00 +0000

To whom it may concern:

Not all americans support the US governments position on this attack on palestinians. The photos are self explanatory. Who really cares about whether the use of white phosphate bombs are legal or not the fact is whatever isreal is using or doing to these poor people is a continuous act of killing with innocent being continuously killed. I guess isreal feels comftorable with that on their conscious and comftorable with the way they appear to the rest of the world – what hatred! The fact is the whole attack since December 2008 is grotesque. This would be like the US continuously attacking one of its third world neighbors. There would be no chance. I am american and I do not support what is going on and I think what isreal and its people are doing is wrong. It is alarming that I actually feel apprehensive in this country writing this! Something civilized needs to be done. Because right now all I see on journalistic photos are a group of people with expensive tanks, guns, and fighter jets attacking a group of people living in rubble, shambles, homeless and destitute. What is going on here? Why such a lopsided attack and still onging – has enough been done yet?

By: lirun

lirun — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:23:20 +0000

the nature of the bombs has yet to be analysed fully to the best of my understanding but the use of the bombs is designed to clear a heavily mine laden and booby trapped area.. if you prefer for israelis to be killed to do so then this is your problem..

it is also your problem that you prefer us to cop thousands of rockets and sit still smiling and waiting for the next one..

from my understanding the bombs do contain phosphorous but in a legal manner..

prove otherwise..

By: bent felesteen

bent felesteen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:43:59 +0000

Hello,

Sign these petitions in the UK Parliament before the deadline please: (if you are not British, forward to your British friends)

To impose arm embargo on Israel:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Arms-embargo/

To Introduce sanctions against Israel:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Israel-Sanctions/

To take economic & trade sanctions against Israel and urge the EU to boycott the EU/Israel trade agreement and EU/Israel Association agreement:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ISRAELISANCTIONS/#detail
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Please forward to all your friends in UK … we need 40,000 signatures to make the government act …

By: Global Voices in Italiano » Dall’Italia alla Palestina: gli aggiornamenti di Vittorio Arrigoni da Gaza

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:54:55 +0000

[...] di Gaza. In un post, un medico illustra gli effetti delle bombe al fosforo bianco che Israele viene accusato di usare [in]: “Quello che a detta sua è totalmente inspiegabile, è la totale assenza di globi [...]

By: Global Voices Online » From Italy to Palestine: Vittorio Arrigoni writes from Gaza

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:06:55 +0000

[...] right now. In one, a doctor describes the effects of the white phosphorus shells Israel is accused of using: “He said that what was totally inexplicable was the total absence of eyeballs, which even in [...]

By: Yarden

Yarden — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:34:47 +0000

People who cross the border and explode on civilians are terrorists. No matter what the Israeli army will do, it will not change the fact that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

By: zzz05

zzz05 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:17:33 +0000

not to reduce the enormity of what’s happening or the possibility of phosphorus grenades being used, but to link as facts to a site claiming that a bunch of medics in an imporverished Gaza hospital in the middle of a war can detect depleted uranium residue in tissues, or that somebody would make tear gas grenades that emitted a minty smell and rainbow colored smoke because that would attract victims to the grenade, doesn’t bolster the case any.