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Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

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Re: Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

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The point was not to kill them, but to maim and blind them. The thousands of blind, neutered and armless terrorists will for generations remind everyone in the Middle East that you don't f*ck with Israel. The same applies to Gaza which is now unsuitable for living.

They also thought about not harming uninvolved people, and also there's so much explosives you can fit inside a pager anyway.

Re: Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was not a terrorist attack. This was a precisely targeted strike against the personnel of a hostile military.

This was a retaliation for an attack on unit 8200 headquarters, which was a retaliation for the assassination of a Hesbollah commander ( https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/which-hezbollah-ha... ) which was... you can see where this is going. What do know for a fact is that Israel bombs Palestine constantly, targets infrastructure, won't let them build a port, denies access to food and water, targets aid worker…

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Re: Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

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Shocking to me that a terrorist attack by Israel is being lauded in the New York Times (and indeed on HN).

This terrorist attack even came in the anniversary of another high profile Zionism terror attack: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

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Re: Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would doctors have Hezbollah pagers or otherwise be involved with Hezbollah? Also, what other means of attack would have a better combatant/civilian casualty ratio than this? Do you think that dropping bombs or sending in ground forces with M16s would have hit a lower percentage of civilians?

Hezbollah is a legitimate political party in Lebanon, like it or not. This means that they have a lot of civilians involved in running a country. Just imagine Russia targeting pro-fascist AfD in Germany and justifying that by "fighting against fascism in Europe." There's 0 doubt everyone would see that as a state-sponsored terror attack and an attack on a German state - an act of war.

Didn't you forgot the part where the AfD would fire thousands of rockets into Russia just this year?

Hezbollah formed a party later for political reasons. It exists to attack Israel and Israel is more than allowed to defend itself and that includes such offensives.

Are you actually serious with this comparison? Because frankly, this is beyond uninformed.

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