No shovel required Richard, my apologies to you, it was Kevin (MGOH) who was trotting out the bogus statistics not you.

I am also in debt to Jim Carroll who has explained to me why there are no Jewish people settled in Lebanon, it was because they were all ethnically cleansed by the Israelis, although I am damned if I can find out when.

White Phosphorus is NOT a Chemical Weapon if it were it would appear in the appropriate protocal of the Geneva Convention and it does not.

The use of white phosphorus is constrained according to a Protocol on conventional weapons. It should not be used in areas considered to be centres of population. Something else that should not occur in areas considered to be centres of civilian population is the deliberate use of civilians as "Human Shields". This is not just a case of two wrongs not making a right but you cannot have one without the other and the use by Hamas of the civilians of Gaza as "human shields" must have occurred first for them to come under fire by the IDF - Unless of course Jim you are trying to sell us on the idea that the israeli Forces started shelling a bunch of Palestinian civilians and a whole rake of heroic Hamas "Freedom Fighters" decided to race over there to see what was going on. Personally I would find that scenario to be highly unlikely.