GAZA CITY, Jan. 22, 2009
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CBS Evening News: Israel Admits To Using Dangerous Chemical; Says It Violated No Laws
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Play CBS Video Video White Phosphorous Gaza Uproar Although Israeli officials have denied using the highly controversial white phosphorous compound against Hamas forces in Gaza, evidence suggests otherwise. Allen Pizzey reports.
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Images of burning rocket trails and residue are part of what Amnesty International calls "indisputable proof" the Israeli military illegally used white phosphorous in Gaza. (CBS)
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Photo Essay Gaza Cease-Fire, At Last As Israelis and Hamas halt fighting, Palestinians dig through rubble for the dead.
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Photo Essay Israel Presses On U.N. headquarters in Gaza shelled as Israel-Hamas conflict continues.
The Israelis admit firing 200 white phosphorous shells, but deny breaking international law.
The last bombing raid in one part of Gaza was a week ago. The area is littered with pieces of shrapnel and bits of sticky, gummy brown material.
Rub it and it bursts into flame and emits an acrid smoke. That's a distinct characteristic, experts say, of white phosphorous.
Sabbah Halima's blister-covered hands are an example of the kind of wound white phosphorous inflicts.
"In hours it becomes much deeper and much whiter, plus smoke comes out of the wound," said Dr. Nafez Abu Shaaban, chief of the burn unit at Shifa Hospital.
The United Nations refugee agency says white phosphorous hit its warehouse in the city center.
"I think our people have said if it looks like white phosphorous, if it acts like white phosphorus, it must be, white phosphorous," said Karen AbuZayd, UNWRA Commissioner-General.
Jodie Clark, a logistics officer for UNWRA, risked her life to pull a burning shell from under a fuel tanker.
"As I ran to the workshops another shell landed probably 30 meters in front of me and then just fireworks burst up from the ground and sprayed pellets of a burning substance all over the place," Clark said.
Pizzey showed part of one of the shells.
"The fire extinguisher didn't put it out, it continued to burn and in fact when we went back an hour later to fight the rest of the fire it was still burning," Clark said.
The Israelis have ordered an inquiry. But human rights groups are calling for an international investigation.
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See all 590 CommentsPosted by thgdriver1
Then the Jews should get the fkuc out of the U.S. and pay for there own way instead of relying on American weaponry and taxing our public for it''s sake. The U.S. stood by the Jews while they **** up the region and have suffered economically deeply because of them.
Israel has spied on America and caused damage to national security more than the Russians ever did.
You want to be left alone? To what ends? To exterminate your distant cousins, descendants from the same founder Abraham? Maybe grab more Arab land also? How about building that new temple in Jerusalem? Problem is it''s occupied...but you have a solution for that don''t you ... a "final solution?"
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If Osama binladin comes out and says, if you **** with me or my people, i will bring down all your buildings and nuke israel.....so leave the **** me alone. This would be a retarded argument in response to a retarded argument.
Dont forget this world is just in its own weard sort of way, tides always turn. If israel keeps this attatude and in 40 years when you and your children in israel are burned alive, your cries of another holocust will fall on deff ears.
Think of your actions and listen to your words before you make them public.....and fear God, for God is just.
Posted by colonieNY at 01:01 PM : Jan 24, 2009
colonieNY you using all capital letters makes it look like you are on a rant and does little to further your argument.The fact of the matter is the use of WP against civilian populations is wrong , the use of cluster munitions is wrong ,The firing of rockets against civilian populations is wrong . There are many actions being committed by both sides that are destructive of the peace process, and your rants in capital letters do little to illuminate any kind of rational discussion on the topic . Take a breath, then another one , before you stroke out.
How about the TITLE " Did HAMAS USE TORTURE WHEN IT BURNED OUT THE EYES OF GAYYS ?"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHRISTIANS OF GAZA ? DID THEY ALL CONVERT WILLINGLY AND BURN DOWN THE YMCA ? AND KILL THE HEAD OF THE YMCA AND HIS FAMILY ? AND KILL THE OWNER OF A CHRISTIAN BOOK STORE ?"
"WHAT HAPPEN TO THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN GAZALAND ? DID THEY ALL CONVERT AND MADE HOME AND SEXX SLAVES BECAUSE OF A LOVE OF ISLAM ??
///The Grand Mufti was arrested for war crimes, in 1945 for the organizing of Muslims in Croatia, to fully support NAZI and Hitler, and killing thousands of Chrisians and Jews. He was released to have trial in Paris, but somehow ( probably due to bribes and diry OIL money) managed to escape back to Syria, and the BATH PARTY. Just google it yourself.
There are many reasons for Jews to be angry worldwide at the way the ARABS treated them, killing them, volunteering to kill Jews in Europe. And now, they want to world to feel sorry for them, after they screwed up GAZA ?? GIVE ME A BREAK
"...I hold all commanders and other SS officers, responsible for the most scrupulous and loyal respect for this privilege especially granted to the Moslems. They have answered the call of the Moslem chiefs and have come to us out of hatred for the common Jewish-Anglo-Bolshevik enemy and through respect and fidelity for he who they respect above all, the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. There will no longer be the least discussion about the special rights afforded to the Moslems in these circles....
Heil Hitler!
(signed)
H. Himmler".
The Grand Mufti was a British title...isn''t that ironic?
That was before Israel existed...The Mufti was never put to trial. He was against the European Jews coming to Palestine, therefore his ally would be Germany. He wasn''t anti semitic, he was acting to defend the Palestine he knew...
He said in an interview...We do not mind you natives of the country, but those alien invaders, the Zionists, will be massacred to the last man. We want no progress, no prosperity. Nothing but the sword will decide the fate of this country.
He told an interviewer, Ladislas Farago:
The Jews have changed the life of Palestine in such a way that it must inevitably lead to the destruction of our race. We are not accustomed to this haste and speed, and therefore we are continually being driven into the background.
So now what?
.. you have your history wrong . The Grand Mufti of the ARABS was a NAZI and met with Hitler to plan better ways to kill more innocent Jews, including babies. BABIES. When Hitler was early on wanting to deport Jews only, the ARAB nations protested.
After the WWII ended, the NAZI of the ARABs were not prosecuted, because - once again oil- and the threat of Russia and Communism. Too bad, because this NAZI mentality con''''t in the BATH party, which runs Syria''''s now BATH = NAZI. The Jews have a lot to be very angry about with the ARAB nations and ISLAM, there is a legacy of NAZISM AND HATE . Many millions of Jews were displaced from Syria, IRAN and Egypt, without any right or return and certainly no compensation for losing all of their life''''s work and land.
WHAT PEOPLE CAN IGNORE SUCH A PAST ?
Until the ARAB Countries give up the Bath = NAZI party, until the Jews get their lands back in Syria, Iran and EGypt, and are paid for lost years, and reparations from the NAZI MUfti killing of Jews, there will be no peace.
No people would put up with such treatment.
Posted by colonieNY at 12:04 PM : Jan 24, 2009
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Hamas and the people of GAZA could have had a beautiful on the sea land, all they had to do was be peaceful.
Instead they chose to make it a sssshitttt hole for Terrorist, and from which parade baby killers as heroes.
no, everyone knows, all of this is their fault.
Please recall, the ARABs fully supported NAZI''s genocide of the Jews ,sending "experts" to Europe to help kill even more babies. What people act like this ? When will they face their past ?
They don''t admit that intense international pressure was building against Israel causing them to stop their punishment of Hamas....Palastinians ...whatever...
They are showing themselves to be the bloodthirsty self righteous, manipulative, land thieving, ghetto builders they truly are.
They are forcing their own distant relatives, (who they deny as being their own) to live lives of despair and hopelessness under what can only be viewed as a tyranny....
To blame Hamas is easy....to live there is hard.
It''s the U.N.''s fault for this disaster...The U.N. made Israel...the U.N. must control Israel or that country will mock us all, and the Arab world will not abide by it''s rules.
""So, if Jews control America, as you imply, then you are saying that a tiny fraction of any Jew is more than a match for a weak, ineffective, limp-wristed schickerer Yock like yourself, max0074.""
In the middle of the Gaza carnage, our lawmakers shamelessly from reps to dems voted a BS resolution (whatever it was) in favor of Israel. The whole world had already understood that it was a punishment of the Palestinian population, as the worldwide press was banned war crimes were commited.Too long to list here.
Our lawmakers wagged their tails to show AIPAC they deserve they paychecks or campaign contributions.
This has nothing to do with how many they jews are in this country. If we follow your stupid reasoning we can ask ourselves how a few hundred thousand nazis could exterminte 6 millions people ? Were they wimp and weak ? Shame on you.
Whats the rest of the Arab world been recieving the last 40 years ? trinkets ?
catastrophic economy ?
Israel has one of the most thriving economys in the Western world.
What does the Arab world produce other than Oil ( with the Wests help) and suicide belts ?
Posted by earth5621 at 10:38 AM : Jan 24, 2009
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If Israel has such a thriving economy why are we Americans (who don''t have a thriving economy) being forced to contribute BILLIONS to them and also BILLIONS more as bribes to their neighbors Jordan and Egypt to do Israels bidding? Israeli support over the years has cost Americans trillions due to oil embargoes and wars with Iraq, not to mention the direct aid and loans....mostly borrowed from China.
Read the "Israeli Lobby" for insight.
google white phosphorus, so you can find out what it really does. Yes it does illuminate, and causes smoke to hide the movements of troops not to see better.And the discs you are talking about can burn for hours. There are other types of ammunition that can be used, such as smoke rounds,star clusters to name a couple. They can say what they want WP is used to burn the enemy out and cause maximum casulties.
Obama should let Mr. Mitchell hit the ground and get the peace process working.
We cannot afford another four more years of blood shed in the Holy Land.All stakeholders including Hamas must be brought together to get the road map working.
There must be 2 states in Palestine.Israel living side by side in peace and security with Palestinians.
That is what all of us must be working to achieve.
The turmoil in the Middle East is not in anyone''s interest except the defence industry.
Jews (Isaac)and Arabs(Ishmael)=Abraham that is the truth. I am sure Abraham is not happy seeing his own grandchildren killing one another and fighting over what belongs to both of them.
Yes, this is exactly the situation with Israel. For less than what the USA has spent on them so far, we could give them say, New Mexico, Arizona, or even Nevada for their country.
In the same vain there is no moral justification for Israel to use WP against civilian targets and that action must be equally condemned.
The scale and inhumane destruction of Gaza can only be equalled to the destruction of Dresden by allied governments who have refused to condemn Israel for using such disproportionate force against civilians.
The IAEA should investigate any possible use of depleted uranium in Gaza.Israel should know that the use of such weapons will not be harmful to only Palestinians but Israelis who live next door to Gaza.
I am saddened by the fact that these cousins continue to kill each other.
Both Jews and Palestinians are cousins because they have one common ancestry-Abraham. How will Father Abraham feel seeing his own grandchildren killing each other over what land that belongs both of them?
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