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Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
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As far as I know in this case both sides have already attacked each other via bombs, airstrikes, rockets, etc. I'm not really making a judgement on whether this was ethical or justified. There's just a distinction to be made from intentionally killing civilians for the purpose of causing terror versus targeting a group that you are in an open military hostility with. The second one, as you say, is basically just war.…
the operation targets operatives of a terrorist organization, not civilians. they use it as secure communication over mobile phones to not be easily locatable. is that lost on you, that it’s targeting the communication used by combatants?
I haven’t said anything that disagrees with that. Might want to re-read my comment above in this thread.
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Interesting that it wasn't discovered by any bomb sniffing dog in Lebanon. They had thousands of devices. There must be at least a few bomb dogs in Lebanon right?
"According to Sky News Arabia; Mossad was able to Inject a Compound of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) into the Batteries of the New Encrypted Pagers that Hezbollah began using around February, before they even arrived in the Hands of Hezbollah Members, allowing them to Remotely Overheat and Detonate the Lithium Battery within the Device."
This report came out 4 hours after the first attack.
I'm very skeptical of a report about a specific compound and method 4 hours after an attack - Its not enough time for analysis
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Under International Humanitarian Law it absolutely does make it OK if the owner of the phone is a militant. This is black letter Law of Armed Combat.
Most people are not judges in the international court of justice. The legal technicalities are irrelevant.
The international court of justice is irrelevant if you don't have nukes or guns to support your cause.
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Most people are not judges in the international court of justice. The legal technicalities are irrelevant.
I don't know what that is supposed to mean. There are norms of warfare and these attacks fall within them.
Honestly, "norms of warfare" is just a rather ridiculous concept imposed by the winning side.
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I’ve never heard that phrase before. Did you come up with it?
Jews poisoning wells was a common antisemitic accusation for centuries (and still - Mahmoud Abbas made a very similar, unsubstantiated claim in 2016) Also, accusations of murdering Christian babies to make matzo, generally worshiping the devil and desecrating communion hosts, etc.
what I didn't get was how the poster above was trying to make it sound like a bad thing ("don't they see") - making the enemy of Western values swear off Western infidel technology a perfect well to poison in my opinion.
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The definition of terrorism is controversial and political, so there isn't a hard answer. But I think a general distinction is the targeting of combatants vs civilians. There is a difference between infiltrating military or para-military organizations or operations and intentionally targeting mass casualties of civilians for attention.
Hezbollah is the government in southern Lebanon so when you throw around "combatant" you're including a lot of civil servants, doctors, teachers etc.
In the same way that Los Zetas (and other cartels) are the unofficial government of parts of Mexico.