Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
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Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#2This sort of story is important; I don't care if we call this "Hacker News" or not.
[edit]: If you disagree, reply.
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#3This sort of story is important; I don't care if we call this "Hacker News" or not. [edit]: If you disagree, reply .
There are lots of important stories in the world, and each has its place depending on the news stream.
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#4"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people"
Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one expect from the Guardian?
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#5"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people" Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one expect from the Guardian?
Quite. WP weapons are very distinctive; the explosion they make doesn't look like anything else and they leave chemical traces. It would be easy for any investigator to bring back conclusive evidence if there were any.
Incidentally we used WP (grenades) during GW1.
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#6"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people" Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one expect from the Guardian?
And the video attached to that story is a trailer for Frost/Nixon! WTF!?
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#7"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people" Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one expect from the Guardian?
Quite. WP weapons are very distinctive; the explosion they make doesn't look like anything else and they leave chemical traces. It would be easy for any investigator to bring back conclusive evidence if there were any. Incidentally we used WP (grenades) during GW1.
I have seen photos of WP being used against enemy soldiers in Vietnam. It's quite a unique explosion, indeed. Interesting that WP was used in GW1. Hadn't WP and Napalm been banned before 1991?
I will believe in newspapers when they produce photos of WP being used against civilians in Gaza. Until then, it's nothing but fog of war, bad journalism and propaganda to me.
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#8"A woman described how on Tuesday Israeli forces "started to fire phosphorus bombs against the people" Please. Since when is a civilian woman a reliable source of information on weaponry? Gimme a break! Bad journalism. What else could one expect from the Guardian?
Quite. WP weapons are very distinctive; the explosion they make doesn't look like anything else and they leave chemical traces. It would be easy for any investigator to bring back conclusive evidence if there were any. Incidentally we used WP (grenades) during GW1.
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#9This sort of story is important; I don't care if we call this "Hacker News" or not. [edit]: If you disagree, reply .
There are lots of important stories in the world, and each has its place depending on the news stream.
Sometimes stories become big enough that they spill out of their ordinary stream. For example, there is a stream of news about Ebola fever that under normal circumstances is read mainly by infectious disease specialists. But if there is a really big Ebola outbreak somewhere, that starts to be relevant to everyone. What's happening in Gaza now seems pretty serious.
Re: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
#10This sort of story is important; I don't care if we call this "Hacker News" or not. [edit]: If you disagree, reply .
I think a lot of the value of HN is the perspective that the community here applies to stories. While the story itself may not be specifically about startups or hacking, the perspective that people bring to bear is almost always informative and thought-provoking. Something may not be Hacker News, but that something may also turn into a great hacker conversation in the course of a thread.
I feel that with HN it's really about the evolving dialogue moreso than the news itself- the news is just a conversation starter.