The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well gosh what with Russia throwing white phosphorous at Ukraine and no consequence then with Israel also appearing to do so it’s as if international law only applies to countries that aren’t nuclear states

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        Well yeah, everything gets complicated when ‘laws’ come with unwritten provisos such that they don’t have enforcement except when major powers want to enforce them so they effectively only apply to certain countries

        Unfortunately, ‘complicated’ seems to provide unwarranted respectability when ‘toothless’ and ‘dysfunctional’ would suffice

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      Isreal has never acknowledged its nuclear forces, nor are they party to the NPT 🤷‍♂️

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        Yeah but nobody’s stupid enough to risk it. Even if there’s no chance they have nukes, our (US) government is big enough, “Christian” enough, anti-Muslim enough, and bat-shit crazy violent enough to not want to FA&FO.