Right-wing Israeli leaders advocate using disease and nuclear bombs against Palestinians
Right-wing Israeli leaders advocate using disease and nuclear bombs against Palestinians
TEL AVIV—Deadly health epidemics deployed as a weapon against Palestinians. Nuclear bombs dropped on Gaza. These are just two of the latest proposals being put forward by influential figures inside and outside the Israeli government as ways to accelerate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war.
The knesset member who suggested nuking gaza is truly one of the dumbest nutcases israel has to offer. Not only will such an act be terribly cruel, it would also hurt places like tel aviv, which is just 50 KMs from the strip, and harm millions of Jewish Israelis (who are presumably the nationality he seeks to strengthen)
Nutcase and cruel yes, not necessarily dumb though.
Modern nukes that react all the fuel in the explosion, are not like the dirty bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that only reacted 10% of the fuel while spreading the remaining 90% around. Then again... if the alternatives on the table are chemical and biological weapons, why not add a dirty bomb, right?
harm millions of Jewish Israelis (who are presumably the nationality he seeks to strengthen)
Some think that having more martyrs is a way to strengthen their side. One could argue that the latest iteration of the original One Million Plan to populate Israel, consisted precisely in creating martyrs (inciting prosecution of Jews in Islamic countries, so they would immigrate to Israel).
Interesting to know. Although, ashkelon, one of Israel's largest cities, is about 7kms from gaza and nuclear missiles are hardly safe to their invironment.
Also, while creating martyrs to manufacture consent for genocide is certainly not unthinkable for Israel's goverment, it would probably require a little more elegance then nuking israeli civilians could provide
This is a terrible take by someone who has heard plenty of propaganda by the arms industry but knows absolutely nothing about physics. Many of the products of the primary and even secondary nuclear reactions from a nuclear warhead are themselves radioactive and have long enough half-lives to do tons of damage in both the short and long terms. Whether or not there is radioactive material spread around is not simply a question of whether some of the original fuel remains unspent.
If all you're doing is spreading war propaganda, log off and go rethink your life.
EDIT: Folks, start here and read other materials by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Don't let this bullshit whitewashing of the dangers of nuclear weapons, their use, and their testing go unaddressed. And speak up against this kind of propaganda showing up in our communities—especially leftist ones.