Israel has finally admitted that they were using Phosphorus bombs during their disgraceful bombing of Lebanon in the summer.

For those that are not aware, Phosphorus weapons are a chemical weapon and a particularly nasty one at that...You know about chemical weapons, right? The type of weapons that are banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention. The type of weapons that were used to justify the War WITH Iraq (in capitals because I am sick of hearing about the war IN Iraq. The war, when discussed in this manner, sounds like a bunch of Iraqis that must be attacked rather than an entire nation that is being destroyed. For the first time in modern history, the whole of Iraq is united against one common enemy rather than against one another. What an incredible and catalysing effect the US has really had on their country, after all! Is it not much harder to actually consider it in that context? I think so.)

Now don't get me wrong here, White Phosphorus is still very much under debate as to whether or not it is actually a chemical weapon per se. The debate, roughly speaking, is based around whether the chemical itself is necessary to kill or is the bomb itself enough.

But the question would have to be, if it does not kill people then surely there would be very little reason for firing it at them in the first place! Unless, of course, the likes of Israel just enjoy a good smoke and light show whilst killing civilians by the thousand which, of course, could not possibly be the case.

Aside from all of this, there is absolutely no debate whatsoever as to whether or not their use is allowed in civilian areas, so that really should not be something that we get too tied up in here.

Now, we are placed in an interesting quandary. Israel has, up until this announcement, denied the use of these weapons entirely whilst the Lebanese have repeatedly stated that they had been subjected to this type of attack. Not just people in the street or "terrorists" from Hezbollah either, but Doctors too.

So the question has to be, what else were the Lebanese telling the truth about and, perhaps more worryingly, what else were Israel LYING about during the war?

We know about the civilian casualties in Lebanon. We know about the million cluster bomblets that were dumped (from bombs supplied by the US with some serious urgency) on Lebanon during the final 72 hours of the war and AFTER the UN had agreed the end date of the invasion. We know about the soldiers who have, as yet, not actually left Lebanon despite the fact that the UN peace treaty specifically states that they must.

It seems we know a lot and it doesn't look good...

So imagine what we are yet to know and what we will never be told.

Scary, isn't it?

Israel builds a wall and in July 2004 that the International Court of Justice calls illegal and "urges" the US and UK, as signatories of the Geneva Conventions, to ensure that Israel dismantles it.

The UN then demands, by a vote of 150 to 6 with 10 abstentions, that Israel comply with the ruling.

And they are still building it to this day.

Israel bombed the UNIFIL bunker after receiving repeated requests, no, cries for help, from the soldiers that, after a few practice runs, they finally managed to kill, some 10 hours later and after repeatedly agreeing to stop the bombing runs.

Israel was required to allow a full right of return to all Palestinians that had been driven from their homeland by Israel in 1948 as a condition to their UN membership acceptance.

OK, so most of them are probably dead by now or rotting in some Israeli dungeon somewhere, but that does not excuse the fact that still, nearly 60 years later, nothing has been done and no new resolutions have ever been passed to suspend Israel's membership due to this flagrant failure to comply.

Is the idea here that they will all be dead before Israel agrees to allow them to return thus not requiring Israel to actually give any land back and pay any compensation?

So, what can we expect next?

Will we find out that the Israeli soldiers really were in Lebanon when they were "kidnapped"? (I place the word kidnapped in quotes as I feel it is important to understand the language used by the mainstream media when dealing with Israel, its enemies and its "right to defend itself" - They are "kidnapped" if they are Israeli but "arrested" if they are Lebanese or Palestinian. They are "soldiers" if they are Israeli and "militants" if they are Lebanese or Palestinian.)

What about the use of Depleted Uranium weapons?

Hold on, don't we already know that?!

Yes, I think that we do!

Maybe it is time to put down the anti-Semitism gun and actually get around a table and talk about all this? Maybe the leaders of Israel and all of the nations that supported the actions in Lebanon by vetoing the first UN resolution into oblivion and allowing the war to carry on for weeks afterwards should be forced to attend too...

But where shall we put the table?

How about somewhere in The Hague?!