> The meme appeared on reddit out of nowhere (...)
I have no idea where you came up with that. White phosphorous has over a century of use in industrial warfare. It's widely used as incendiary weapon even in anti-personnel roles. This is direct violation of the Geneva convention.
So would a dumbass running a redlight t-boning me on the way home from work. Doesn't make it a weapon or a war crime. Do you have any arguments that are actually intelligent?
> White phosphorous is a way to light up the night sky during warfare
Lol No. Hilariously no. The thing to use to light up night sky is Magnesium (mostly, also aluminum. nowadays specialized resins). The primary use of WP is for smoke, but it is used illegally as an incendiary munition.
For someone who talks so much about WP I did not expect this level of ignorance. Empty vessels sounds much, I suppose.
Use of WP is banned * in warfare by international treaty, on the grounds of avoiding unnecessary cruelty and suffering. There are other banned weapons, for example, dumdum bullets. *There is a specific exception made for WP, which the Israeli army habitually and illegally abuses.
No other army is known to be a repeat offender with regards to WP. It's use in an area with civilian population is strictly prohibited. Cliffs are not.
Given the number of false equivalences you have been drawing you sound like a shill.
Whining that bad people do illegal things is asinine.
>*There is a specific exception made for WP, which the Israeli army habitually and illegally abuses.
You mean it's not actually illegal.
I'm honestly not a big fan of Israel, but until we can locate all six of their submarines that launch the Popeye Turbo nuclear cruise missiles and destroy them (at sea, hopefully) with megaton nuclear first strikes, Israel gets to do whatever they want. They'll Samson all of Europe, North America too. But that might be a little too harsh... you're still hoping to shame them into behaving. Or something.
