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Israel Accused of Using Uranium-Tipped Weapons

A report in a major British newspaper has led to accusations that in its recent war with Hizballah in Lebanon, the State of Israel used shells tipped with some kind of uranium casing to effect the desired results. Jerusalem has denied the report, saying that all of the weapons Israel used were covered under international treaties as being legally able to be used in warfare. The Allies used depleted uranium shells during the first Gulf War in 1991, leading to several cancer cases in later years.

Most of the opprobrium leveled against the Jewish state over the uranium allegations comes from websites known to take anti-Israel, and what some would say anti-Semitic, stance on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel went to war with Hizballah, and to a lesser degree Lebanon, following a cross-border attack into Israel?s sovereign territory by the Lebanese terror group from the sovereign territory of Lebanon. Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon in 2000, and the UN verified its full withdrawal. But Hizballah claims Israel is still occupying Lebanese territory.

Hizballah uses the disputed region of Shebaa Farms as an excuse to carry out attacks against Israel in violation of past UN resolutions. Battles between Israel and her Islamist opponents on the battlefield often lead to accusations of massacres and violations of international law on the part of the Jewish state, while the terrorists/opponents usually escape similar criticisms even when their actions were responsible for the start of the hostilities in the first place.