The Israeli armies devastation of Gaza which started in December of 2008 and has never really stopped, with daily reports of bombs being dropped on tunnels under the Gaza and Egypt border. The world watched on with little or no view of what was happening inside the city. We all heard the horror stories of children being lined up and sho in front of their familiest. A piece of grainy video footage of a paramedic taking a two month old baby out of an ambulance, she had been run over by a Israeli tank and burned to a state beyond recognition. We heard about the use of weapons known as DIME bombs. DIME stands for "Dense Inert Metal Explosives" which means when the bomb goes off it fires microscopic projectiles made of carsonagenic tungsten. If you are lucky to be in the blast radius you will be liquified, if you are just outside it you will be hit with microscopic debre, which doctors cannot see because of how small they are. So they have no idea how to help you. If you do survive and they remove the barbed metal from all your organs, you will most definetly have cancer. The deaths of fourt civilians when the IAF dropped a bomb on a UN school. Which they knew was a school.
Richard Falk, a UN rights envoy is now calling for both Israel and the Hamass government to be tried for war crimes. Both parties breaching the part of the Geneva convention that states you must distinguish military targets in a civilian surrounding. Which they didn't. Neither did. Hamass with their not so lethal but just as frightening rockets that were fired into Israels outskirts. Mr Falk also brought up the use of white phospherous. A chemical weapon that should not be used in such dense areas. This weapon that killed so many in Fallujah in Iraq when the Americans tried to take the city for the second time. Is a horrid piece of work. It releases a gas that burns when it collides with moisture, therefore if you breath in this gas it reacts in your mouth, throat and lungs and can burn you from the inside out. Water only makes it worse and the only way you might be able to stop it is by swallowing wet mud.
Ehud Olmert this week praised and some what tried to glorify the army by saying "they are the most moral army in the world". To what degree of morality we would find out a day later, when it was released that Israeli soldiers were wearing T-shirts at the end of their deployment, that sported an illustration of a pregnant woman within a snipers crosshair on her pregnant stomach and a terrifying phrase below it "1 shot 2 kills." Other shirts had an arab woman grieving beside her childs grave within a crosshair and that one stated "should have used durex." Others had ones with an armed child in a crosshair "The smaller the target, the harder to hit" was the slogan on that one. One had an Israeli soldier blowing up a mosque with the slogan "only God can forgive."
So along with Mr Olmerts statement comes my question. If they are meant to be the most moral army in the world. What standards are their morals ? Judging by their veneration of murder and racism, it cannot be too great. Hamass launch rockets into civilian areas which also has no excuse. But Hamass are recognized internationally as a "terrorist" group. So as the leader in "warefare morality" shouldn't they at least try and set a higher standard ? If the Nuremberg laws were enforced on everybody like they should be. The leader of operation "Cast Lead" could be tried in the Hauge for war crimes. Along with the leaders of Hamass.
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