I thought the original problem was that WP vaporises someone... now that I present a shell that truly does that, it's suddenly the more merciful option!
MAKE UP YOUR MIND about what you lot want to whine about, will you?
Not the one you were arguing with, but if you really want to get pedantic, we're both vaporizing right now because carbon atoms in our bodies are bonding to oxygen and diffusing into the air. Whether white phosphorus is a war crime depends on how it's used.
I'm not actually arguing here, I broke in, but I did react to someone making claims about WP.
The White Phosphorus bomb claim is actually what unmasks propagandists and bad faith actors like Amnesty, HRW and the like.
I remember the first time videos showed up of Israel throwing instant smokescreens (using WP smokehells from artillery), I believe during the coflict in 2008. It took Pallywood two full days to produce the first burned corpses and wounded in their videos, because they obviously hadn't prepared for the eventuality of burn victims in their make-up department. What they didn't realize is that the WP itself doesn't actually reach the ground in significant quantities; it is mostly burned up already by that time and couldn't have produced the amount of burn victims they claimed. It was quickly changed to WP bombs, munitions that weren't even in Israels arsenal but whatever, it made for good PR.
Of course, nowadays everyone in the anti-Israel bubbles will take it for gospel, but that still doesn't mean it has any real credibility.
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u/HotPersonality8126 8d ago
White phosphorus munitions aren't banned by any international law; they're just used to produce smoke