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July 27, 2006

Is Israel Using New Chemical Weapon?

A number of people are beginning to ask about what sort of strange, new weapons Israel is using in its attack on Lebanon. They say the bombs are causing wounds of a type that no one has ever seen before.

Blackened bodies have been showing up at hospitals in southern Lebanon two weeks into the war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas that has seen at least 418 people, mostly civilians, killed in Lebanon and at least 42 Israelis. Killed by Israeli air raids, the Lebanese dead are charred in a way local doctors, who have lived through years of civil war and Israeli occupation, say they have not seen before.

Doctors who are examining the strange bodies believe Israel is using some sort of chemical weapon.

"We are seeing abnormal burns, different from wars we've seen in the past. The corpses of these victims are shrinking to half their normal size. You think it is the corpse of a child at first but it turns out to be a grown man," said Raed Salman Zeinedine, director of Tyre Government Hospital. "We've never seen anything like it but what the causes are I don't want to speculate. We have no scientific answer."

You can see pictures of what the Israeli weapons are doing to people here (the site has a painful journal – scroll to the bottom for photos). Not for those with a weak stomach. I wonder how many every-day Republicans could still support war if they saw with their own eyes what it actually does to people - including young children. Or perhaps they have become so adept at separating their hearts from their minds that they can justify this evil even when looking it square in the eye.

Posted by Becky at July 27, 2006 08:58 AM