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Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?

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Re: Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?

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One of the horrific elements of 9/11 was that force of compression as the building collapsed basically destroyed bodies beyond even being small parts.

As a result, for years following 9/11 remains ( sometimes very small ) were found and immediately catalogued and DNA tested in the hopes some of the victims would finally have something that could be buried.

It's truly horrific to be unable to tell a family for certain that their loved one is definitely gone. And there are folks from that event who are still entirely missing, no remains found. Their families had to bury empty caskets with a lack of closure.

It's a pretty horrid thing.

Re: Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?

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"blood libel" why do you have to use this term all the time? There is plenty of other words that describe what you want to say: fake news, disinformation, propaganda. Why do the likes of you insist on using "blood libel"?

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Re: Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?

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Thermobaric bombs are real and even normal bombs can do this. (There’s a WW2 song which ends “and all they could find were spots/hundreds and hundreds of spots.“) Not clear that this is a war crime; war is horrible and bombs are part of it; the question is how indiscriminately they were dropped.

Re: Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?

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It 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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