> Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons I guess "internationally prohibited" means nothing anymore.
It never meant anything.
Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?
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#43Didn't the US use weapons in Japan that made Japanese evaporate too?
And then as a society we learned not to do that again?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
But why do you say it is distorted propaganda? How do you know that those bombs were not used in Gaza?
A hint would be that none of the mentioned munitions, MK-84, BLU-109, and GBU-39, are thermobaric. They're conventional HE or penetrator munitions.
At least the MK-84 can use tritonal, which the article mentions specifically. When exploding it can raise the temperature to several thousand degrees.
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#46This story is utterly chilling, but its source is incredibly dubious. Al Jazeera operates entirely at the pleasure of the Al Thani royal family—from whom it receives 90% of its revenue. Qatar, likewise, provides Hamas with essential financial lifelines—billions in aid over the years, including regular cash transfers for salaries, fuel, and reconstruction in Gaza. Hamas's political leadership lives comfortably in Doha…
I feel like there’s some propaganda serving both sides. A bomb which prevents Muslim funeral rites can be psychological warfare from Israel and also a story over-emphasized from those invested in Hamas to take the focus away from something else.
Is it perhaps also possible that a bunker buster bomb that can be used to destroy tunnels from above ground ... was used to bust bunkers and destroy tunnels?
Nah it's a conspiracy! Must be!
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
A hint would be that none of the mentioned munitions, MK-84, BLU-109, and GBU-39, are thermobaric. They're conventional HE or penetrator munitions.
At least the MK-84 can use tritonal, which the article mentions specifically. When exploding it can raise the temperature to several thousand degrees.
If you can think of such tiny details. Then, surely, you can also answer the larger idea, no? What are these weapons, more in general? What are they used for normally, what are they designed to do?
And does the normal explanation perhaps make a lot more sense than pointing at the tiny details that fits a conspiracy theory?
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#48It really depresses me that there is so much emphasis on arms and weapons startups now days. Even some financed by Y Combinator. The thing about weapons is that these startups will have no control in what circumstances they are used. The hypocrisy is people coming here and claiming that such things happening in the world disturb them. The world would definitely be a safer place if everyone was a pacifist.
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Thanks - we think of those examples and believe such degraded violence should stop. You are just ok with tit for tat.
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#50It really depresses me that there is so much emphasis on arms and weapons startups now days. Even some financed by Y Combinator. The thing about weapons is that these startups will have no control in what circumstances they are used. The hypocrisy is people coming here and claiming that such things happening in the world disturb them. The world would definitely be a safer place if everyone was a pacifist.
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