On: Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weap...

[ntoshev]

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-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.

[chaostheory → ntoshev]

HN has had plenty of political posts in the past without complaint regarding issues such as privacy and net-neutrality.