This is politics, and it is not even news. Israel has been accused of using such weapons a couple of years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus#2

This is politics, and it is not even news. Israel has been accused of using such weapons a couple of years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus#2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus#2006_Israel-Le... Clearly it is not more important now than it was then. I am all for a broad spectrum of topics covered here on HN, but this is just a controversial topic that is useless to discuss here.