The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150703   Message #3645079
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-Jul-14 - 03:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
"Replace the word "darts" with "fragments" and you have a description of the kind of shell in use since Napoleonic times.
They are considered legal weapons but like all weapons can be used illegally."
I would condemn out of hand the use of weapons that explode and spray shrapnel into the flesh of human beings under any circumstances.
These are thousands of deliberately designed dart-shaped missiles which are packed into a casing in order that they may spray over an area and bury themselves into human flesh.
Their use is illegal when they are directed at non-combatants, which is exactly how that have been used in Gaza - and have been photographed having been used.
That anybody can condone that use is, as far as I'm concerned, the depth of depravity.
Jim Carroll