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Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attack (www.axios.com)

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The sound of many of them exploding

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

This reminds me of when during sieges during the Middle Ages they used to lob the bodies of the dead back inside the castle. I'm not sure if it's because of the lines they've crossed over and ignored regarding civilian casualties on this, or that this will essentially cause other parties to cross those same lines. This is giving ideas to China and Russia, and humanity has been far shittier in the past, I really don't want to see how bad we will regress to.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago

The media condemned political violence against Trump in unison one month ago.

Israel commits one of the biggest terrorist attacks against a Lebanese political organization in history and the media claps.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

My concern twofold

A: Without evidence I have a hard time seeing planting bombs in devices was solely targeted at fighters. Odds are an entire shipment was targeted and many people who weren't Hezbollah received bombs

B: Blowing up devices that were by definition carried everywhere certainly killed families and associates who didn't deserve to die.

During the Iraqi war we considered Iraqi leadership targets and I wouldn't have been surprised if they considered our leadership targets as well. If they had in fact only killed Hezbollah I would have no problem with the attack.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

In Iraq every Iraqi civilian was considered a valid target.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago

The definition of "enemy combatant" was "anyone within the blast radius of a US strike". I kid you not.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

And they whined about a fucking bus exploding.

About some pipe rockets killing a random bloke or two.

And this

against a Lebanese political organization

appears to be wrong since their attack wasn't at all this targeted. It's a mass terror campaign against whole Lebanese population in order to saturate its attention and reduce morale before an invasion.

We all got complacent relying on big nations with big militaries for punishing such behavior, and they are all in bed with the criminal.

Despite this not being Hezbollah's best moment, I think they and similar guerrillas are the exact kind of people we should learn from for solutions to Israel and the rest of the problem.

[-] febra@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

Call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.

[-] dlatch@lemmy.world 155 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If this was the other way around, we'd have global outrage, days of mourning and piles of new weapons for Israel right now. We'd be speaking about one of the worst terrorist attacks in history.

[-] groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 13 points 22 hours ago

This was a stupid decision by Israel. They have given the green light to mass attacks through consumer products. Can they really afford to protect all their imported products (electronics, food, water, etc) from every type of attack?

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

They don't have to, the supply chain is friendlier to them than to Lebanese.

[-] groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

The supply chain goes from the source to the consumer. It doesn't have to be and elaborate and expensive operation to have an effect. Several unrelated individuals poke 1 or 2 tiny holes into some fruits and vegetables during their weekly grocery shopping. Once people start to notice there will be panic about food security. Most people won't care but enough will that it will cost grocery stores money in unsellable products and increased vigilance. Prices go up. If you can't trust your fellow human to not sneeze at the buffet table, how are you going to trust your neighbour/worker who lost x relatives to not tamper with your ice cream in the unlocked fridge at the store.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

There is no intelligence behind genocide.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 189 points 1 day ago

So, what Israel is admitting here, is that they could individually pinpoint and target Hamas but instead carpet bombed Palestine into genocide.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

They are openly showing that they can do whatever they want.

All the rest is gaslighting so that you'd not be completely sure that that's what they are saying, thus not so confident in yourself. Another kind of attacking other's morale.

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[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 144 points 1 day ago

supply chain attacks are dirty tactics too, they have no idea who is holding 3000 pagers when detonation.

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[-] Navarian@lemm.ee 121 points 1 day ago

Five years ago, if you had asked me if Israel would be committing terrorist attacks across Palestine, Lebanon and beyond, I would have said absolutely not.

I would have been wrong, even back then, but jesus fucking christ, what an absolute shambles.

How my government supports this state-sponsored terrorism is beyond me.

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[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 158 points 1 day ago

Oh look, terrorism.

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