Please see my note at the end of this important article. 



http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1388724


Peterborough Examiner (Canada)
January 15, 2009


Bombs also radioactive hazard


Just after Christmas, Israel began bombing Gaza. It
has been proven that Israel used weapons with depleted
uranium (DU) during it's bombing of Lebanon in 2006
and traces of depleted uranium have been found on
victims in Gaza.

DU weapons are used to penetrate fortified structures
as the radioactive metal is stronger than the metal in
the buildings. Though a healthy human body can deal
with small amounts of radioactive dust, some of this
microscopic material is heated to a point that it
becomes non-soluble ceramic and the body can no longer
deal with it.

Not only is this radioactive dust being spread over
one of the most densely populated areas of our world,
but Israel is sending its own soldiers into the toxic
environment it has created.

One third of the soldiers in Iraq are now displaying
symptoms of "Gulf War Syndrome," suspected to be
related to exposure to DU.

The long-term health effects of these radioactive
weapons are just beginning to be understood but it has
become very clear that the effects are serious and
permanent.

Last month the UN was directed to update its research
on the impact of uranium munitions by 2010. How many
more hot spots will be created by then?

The solution to end the fighting between Israel and
Palestine is not complicated. Once Israel ends the
occupation the fighting will also end. The working
example is the struggle that the Irish people had with
their occupation by Britain. Once the occupying forces
left and the Irish people where free to develop their
own political and economic system, the fighting ended.


The question of the long-term health effects of people
suffering from leukemia, genetic, reproductive, and
neurological effects after being exposed to DU weapons
is much more complex.

BRUCE McFARLANE
Clifford Road
Warsaw NOTE: Depleted uranium (DU) is an isotope of uranium. Like all
uranium, it is radioactive: depleted uranium (U-238) has a "half-life" of 4.5
billion years, which essentially means that it is radioactive FOREVER. DU
was authorized by President Clinton for use by NATO in the war in the Balkans,
and has been used by America in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the National
Academy of Sciences, there is NO safe level of radioactivity, and depleted
uranium has been linked to widespread birth defects, often fatal, in the
countries where it is used, as well as cancer, diabetes, and Gulf War Syndrome,
as the article points out. I do not know upon what this author bases his
assertion that DU has been found in Gaza, but I think that suspicion that this
may be the case is justified, since America, Israel's ally and supporter atall
points in this war, undeniably possesses DU.
For more information, look at
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m37167&hd=&size=1&l=e or go to
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/du-watch/. Hajja Romi




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