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The only person quoted on this claiming Israel wants cluster munitions is from HRW.

The unnamed State Department person is quoted as saying Israel will get these munitions w/a warning "to be careful."

The Israeli spokesman isn't commenting.

I am remembering that in the Israeli War for Independence in 1947, the Brits blockaded Israel, no one would sell them anything except outdated and nonfunctional hand guns w/o ammo and the founders of Israel, all of them, of course, survivors of the Nazis and the camps,as well as "illegal entrants", bought European scrap and began manufacturing their own weapons.

While I know we supply the Israelis with advanced munitions, the entire Western world is very shy of using cluster rounds. However, I believe the people who invented the Sten gun under extremely adverse conditions could produce cluster bombs if they intended to use them. Since, so far, the Israelis have refrained to their own detriment from using any munitions that could cause indiscriminate casualties, I am suspicious of this article, its sources and its intent.