Hezbollah can't catch a break this week. First it was the pagers, now it's the walkie-talkies . The Wall Street Journal reported:
Hezbollah was hit Wednesday by another wave of exploding devices, as Israel signaled it was moving toward more aggressive military action against the Lebanese militant group. Walkie-talkies used by the group blew up in homes, cars and in operatives’ hands across the country, people familiar with the matter said, just a day after thousands of pagers carried by Hezbollah members exploded at roughly the same time. The new attack killed 20 people and injured more than 450, after Tuesday’s bombings killed 12 and injured more than 2,800 people, according to Lebanon’s government, which blamed Israel. The militant group was scrambling to assess the extent of the two days of explosions. Details emerging from investigations into Tuesday’s massive attack pointed to a complex plan carried out by Israel, in which explosives were planted in thousands of devices destined for Hezbollah members and then detonated by a remote signal. Tension across the Israeli-Lebanese border has ratcheted up recently, with heavier exchanges of fire than in earlier months and more aggressive Israeli operations. Israelis are pressuring their government to let residents of evacuated northern communities return.... Many of the affected pagers in Tuesday’s attacks were from a new shipment that Hezbollah had received recently, part of a nearly yearlong process to swap out older devices. The group said they detonated in rough unison at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Survivors reported hearing the pagers beep and displaying a series of numbers on their screens about five seconds before they detonated. According to people familiar with Hezbollah’s investigation, the initial assessment is the pagers detonated because an explosive device was planted in the new models. The scenario indicates Israel found its way into Hezbollah’s supply chain to modify the devices that were delivered.....Rest of article.
Sucks to be them.
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Y'all think this is cute now, but just wait until your phone has to be screened before boarding a plane.
Israel opened up Pandora's box... if they can do it, others will feel emboldened to do the same. So, yeah, we're all walking around with bombs in our pocket now (and on our ring cameras, smart refrigerators, electric scooters and anything else with a lithium ion battery).
6:33, your phone is already being screened. Lord.
Not true - these pagers were manufactured with explosives with the sole intent to go after Hezbollah. So your phone can no more explode than the shoe you have to take off every time you board a plane. As for the mossad, keep up the good work.
Only if the shipment from FedEx takes a detour to have an explosive device implanted!
Darn it, I should probably take the Beirut Club Med off my vacation wish list.
Fuck Hezbollah - they are the terrorists who killed many of our Marines in Beirut. Go Israel!
The most recent explosions weren't limited to walkie talkies. They included things like electric shavers, solar batteries, cell phones, lap tops and so on. This is a new era of terrorism/warfare.
This could be the solution to the problem of kids bringing cell phones to school.
So, the 11th Century citizenry who has sworn to destroy Israel...how are they going to communicate and plan the next wave of butchery and terrorism? Semaphor Flags? Morse Code with flashlights? Homing pigeons? BTW, all the news outlets showing photos of 'people in the streets'...try to find a woman on the street. They don't exist. Not as Western Civilization allows its women to move about freely without face/total body coverings. We even let them drive, get an education, and they used to have control over their own reproductive decisions. Used to. The cost of a free/democratic Israel is constant readiness and willingness to defend against the Mullahs and Autocratic Backward fusterclucks.
#1: No phone.
#2: No plane.
Guess I'm good.
If any of had listened to Edward Snowden you would know our government also intercepts technology and plants surveillance devices into them. And not just “bad actors” but anyone with influence or power such as Rand Paul or Tucker Carlson.
Good for Mossad. If any truly innocent people were hurt, that is all on Hezbollah which should be eliminated once and for all. It is nothing but a blood thirsty terrorist organization sworn to eliminate the Jewish population. There should be no place in this world that is safe for such animals, and apparently, thanks to Mossad, there is not. Keep up the good work Mossad!
All the people I see and hear out there cheering on this terrorism by Israel - y’all do know these explosions are also killing and wounding non-combatants? Children even. This is illegal according to the Geneva Convention.
Netanyahu and his supporters are war criminals. Of course, FDR and Churchill were as well when they bombed civilians in WW2. But if you win the war and have the propaganda machine on your side you can get away with it.
Look up Darryl Cooper’s podcast and start learning some history and not just the propaganda you are taught in school. Read Tom Woods’ “ Politically Incorrect Guide to American History” as an easy start.
Israel’s motto: You 17-with us first and we’ll go in dry on you second!
9:45 pm 's admiration of Rand and Carlson and 5:01 am suggesting Roosevelt and Churchill were war criminals, completely erases makes their comments unreliable.
And while I do think Snowden had some credibility, his interpretation was always suspect as it lacked some context. It seemed not to occur to him that he may not have had all the relevant information and seemed to make no serious effort to find out how to deal with his concerns internally. He seems motivated by profit not patriotism given his later choices.
Those who want to assume the worst should always first learn about how a system is supposed to work and why the "rules" exist in the first place.
And, humans even those who are very smart and well educated. can develop mental illness. There are valid reasons the notion of vast conspiracies is problematic. You could claim that the Catholic Church or any other religion is a vast conspiracy or criminal organization simply because there are 'bad apples" in every group of humans.
If you are truly smart, you read both sides of any argument and learn who has the best grasp of the available , confirmable information and who has the best history of being accurate and honest.
5:01: Suck it, Nazi. You didn't say anything when Hezbollah killed a dozen kids on a soccer field. Probably celebrated.
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May those who love us, love us;
And for those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts;
And if He cannot turn their hearts,
May He detonate their electronics,
So we may know them by their limp.
(apologies to the original author)
Next time put a miniature nuke in those pagers/walkie-talkies.
5:01 and his ilk have been sheltered since birth and will never understand that terrorists have no soul.
I applaud these innovative ways to minimize civilian casualties while eliminating monsters and remind all, you will never appease morons who think war should be sterile and clean.
There is no world in which they get the fictional utopia they crave. So ignore them and get back to the business at hand.
The terrorist sympathizers are nauseating. They say nary a word when some atrocity is committed by terrorist groups, but just let any western civilization retaliate, even surgically with no additional casualties, and OH MY GAWD HOW COULD THEY EVER DO SUCH TERRIBLE THINGS!!!!
5:01 is a Millsaps grad. after their indoctrination they don't know which way is up because "is it really up?"
Commenting in these threads is a waste of time. Its just a bunch of ill-informed, Brainwashed Zionists getting their asinine comments approved while KF censors any opposition. Maybe he thinks its funny. Maybe he thinks it will get him a big titty jewish girlfriend. But God has long ago forsaken these people and cast them out of Israel. It was not God’s will that they have returned.
10:54, I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have a commenter here who has insight into God’s mind. Please enlighten us on the Middle East situation!
Ooouuu... good one
@12:34PM i would be happy to enlighten you. Once again, its a waste of time. KF doesn’t allow a debate on this subject. In his opinion anyone who doesn’t slavishly support Zionism is a terrorist.
@ 1:04 PM - It's one thing to not support Zionism. It's another altogether to support an organization that wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
@1:25 Please show us where any commenters supported terrorism? I sure didn’t. Mentioning Israeli treachery or the dark history of Zionism doesn’t mean I am a terrorist. You Zionists ignore A LOT of terrorism committed by Jewish Settlers. Its pretty easy to find videos of sneering IDF soldiers with NY accents doing the same thing in the Golan Heights and Gaza that Hamas did to that raver girl. And they did it years ago.
1:04/2:19, after seeing the level of anti-Israel rhetoric KF allows in the name of open dialogue, I can only imagine how hateful the vitriol must be he is blocking, but I thank him for it. We don’t want you types who keep a copy of Mein Kampf on your nightstand to control things.
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