#exploding pager attack

[eretzyisrael]

by Michael Goodwin

For months, Biden and Kamala Harris have tried to force Israel to accept fatally flawed terms with Hamas in Gaza and, by extension, Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Democrats are motivated by fear that anti-Israel voters in the upper Midwest, especially Muslim Americans in Michigan, will abandon the party.

The result has been a relentless pressure campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, complete with attempts to undermine him politically at home and hamper Israel’s military by withholding munitions.

Recall that Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat in on cabinet meetings to dictate which targets Israel could attack.

The disgraceful effort, which included following the same playbook as anti-Israel mobs at the United Nations, prolonged the war and gave Hamas incentives to hold out for better deals.

Emboldening Hamas

Although some details remain unknown, the US was pushing for Israel to get back the remaining hostages abducted during the horrors of Oct. 7, some of them American citizens.

In exchange, it would release thousands of Palestinians arrested on terrorism charges.

Even worse, Hamas would have survived in some capacity, letting its leaders again plunder international aid, gain government control in Gaza and attack Israel again.

Even as Hamas kept upping its demands, Washington kept the heat on Israel.

Finally, Netanyahu spoke in the only language terrorists understand.

He rejected the Biden-Harris demand to halt Israel’s ground operation in Gaza and green-lighted last week’s sensational beepers-go-boom operation in Beirut.

Like a story line from “Fauda,” the hit streaming series about Israeli secret agents, disrupting Hezbollah’s communications delivered a psychological blow in addition to killing scores of fighters and injuring several thousand others.

Netanyahu followed with attacks on Hezbollah rocket launching sites and the targeted killing of one of the group’s top leaders.

Given that the leader, Ibrahim Aqil, was a US-designated terrorist linked to the 1983 bombings of our Marines barracks and embassy in Beirut that killed nearly 400 people, most of them US citizens, the White House should be celebrating.

Aqil had a $7 million American bounty on his head, and if Biden had any sense, he would send the check to Israel with a big thank you.

Instead, watch for long faces in the Harris campaign now that it’s clear she won’t get the Michigan political benefit of a pre-election cease-fire.

[sole-e-acqua]

I could have died in 2006 from a rocket launched by Hizboullah. It fell right next to my home. I was 14.

My husband could have died by the hands of Hizboullah in 2000, if his family didn't escape their home in Lebanon. He was 7.

But some clueless American zoomer will call us fascists for laughing at these terrorists balls being rightfully blown off...

Guess what? We are alive, no thanks to Hizboullah, and u bet your sorry ass we will keep laughing (living & loving) 😘

[actualadvocacybruh]

So Israel legit is a terrorist state at this point

Keep in mind it wasn’t just militants hurt by this they exploded inside hospitals and in civilian areas

Kids were again harmed by this action as it was not targeted nor did it consider civilians or collateral damage in its prosecution

The US is infamous for its disregard for civilians but even they wouldn’t behave like this … Israel is an aggressive terrorist state that doesn’t care who dies in its fascistic genocidal war against all non Zionists in the world and if the world doesn’t start treating them as hostile entities we will see them grow more brazen and bloodthirsty in their actions

They will label children terrorists and then bomb a hospital

They will call your grandmother a humus operative and rape her in front of you just to instill terror in any survivors

They are not allies they seek the destruction of any who oppose them be they Arab, European or even Jewish

[cavalierzee]

Hauntingly Beautiful Bombardment?

Is it also okay to say the rockets that strike Israel from Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Etc., are “Hauntingly Beautiful?”

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Hey, here’s a thought!

“Sample script to contact companies about your electronic devices:

“In light of the recent terrors attacks on civilians using remotely triggered booby-trapped electronic devices, for the safety of myself and my family and my loved ones, I would like confirmation that Israel is not involved in the manufacture or supply chain of your products in any way. Please confirm this, otherwise I will need to request a full refund and return for any electronic devices purchased from you and take my business elsewhere. Thank you.”

[heritageposts]

Israel just carried out a large-scale terrorist attack in Lebanon by causing a number of pagers to simultaneously explode across the country, injuring thousands of people.

It's a developing story, but so far eight people, including an eight-year-old girl, have been confirmed murdered in the attack. An additional 3,000 have been injured.

I've seen Western media outlet report on this like its a target attack on Hezbollah fighters, with media figures in my own country using words like 'sophisticated' and 'impressive' in their reporting.

Look at this still from a video capturing one the pagers going off, and tell me what you see:

Does this look like a justified "military target" to you?

We don't know how these pagers were compromised yet, or who were carrying them, but we're starting to get a good idea of where they exploded, and so far, from the videos circulating online, that includes shops, supermarkets, buses, cars, civilian homes and hospitals.

If this had been done by any other country in the region, it would have been called a terrorist attack.

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[head-post]

Oil prices surged 5% after Biden’s comments on possible Israel-Iran escalation

Crude oil prices rose 5% after US President Joe Biden said Washington was “discussing” the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran’s oil industry in retaliation for Tehran’s missile attack.

Israel is considering a limited strike on Iran’s oil sector as a “significant retaliation” for Iran’s strike on its military bases, according to the source. However, Iran said it would retaliate if Israel struck any part of its oil sector in the Persian Gulf.

Brent crude oil prices rose 10% to $77.13 a barrel following Iran’s missile attack on Israel. The price hike comes at a critical time for global energy markets, although prices remain below levels seen earlier this year due to weaker demand from China and plentiful supplies from Saudi Arabia.

Increased violence in the Middle East and the threat of further escalation are now putting oil markets under intense pressure. Traders are also watching closely for any signs of disruption to supply routes.

Read more HERE

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[primepaginequotidiani]

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[actualadvocacybruh]

So far the information I got in the pager bombs and follow up attacks is about 20 or so Hezbollah dead (and that is all together btw not even that many leaders it was mostly foot soldiers) and the civilian casualties are in the thousands sitting between 3-5k injured, dead and maimed permanently

So you know they basically did what the US, Germany, Japan and the UK did during WW2 in that they bombed entire areas killed thousands and the justification was “well we kind of got a military target”

Fucking disgraceful

And now no less than 4 nations are calling for retaliation… NATIONS not Hezbollah, not Hamas not radical fringe groups NATIONS

Israel is so fucking gross in its random acts of terrorism against humanity that now even the threat of US intervention is not gonna be enough to stop return strikes

More dead are coming and the cycle of violence will continue until everyone on one side or the other is fucking dead

Apparently no one learned anything from the two decades America spent in the Middle East

[metamatar]

BEIRUT (AP) — Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in an apparent second wave of attacks targeting devices a day after pagers used by Hezbollah blew up, state media and officials for the militant group said. At least 20 people were killed and more than 450 wounded in the second wave, the Health Ministry said.

associated press is a private news agency based in the united states

[gaelic-symphony]

"Antizionists": Israel needs to stop doing any military action that might kill civilians, hostages be damned!

Israel: *launches an EXTREMELY targeted cyber-attack against Hezbollah members by making their pagers explode, injuring (mostly) ONLY people carrying said Hezbollah pagers, making them by definition NOT civilians*

"Antizionists": No, not like that.

There is literally NOTHING Israel can do that won't enrage antisemites. They won't be satisfied unless Israel sits back and lets its people be slaughtered.

[xclowniex]

Okay talking about the pagers and walkie-talkies seriously now.

I have seen quite a lot of misinformation going about and I just wanted to correct a few things.

The devices were not given to civilians

We know this as whilst civilians have bought their own pagers of the same brand, they did not explode. Only hezbollah ones exploded. This was done by a shipment meant for hezbollah being targeted, not all pagers going to Lebanon.

Hezbollah isn't also going to just give their communication devices to random ass civilians unless they're no longer in use. The pagers were a somewhat recent investment, not something which is old and no longer of use. It's just military basics 101. Don't give civilians equipment you are still using and still need

Most of the casualties were children and innocent citizens

The casualties were mainly adults. Whilst some children were harmed, the majority affect were adults. We also do not know how many hezbollah vs non hezbollah were affected, but considering to be seriously injured or killed, a person would need to be holding one of the affected devices or be close to someone with one, it's safe to assume that the majority of people affected were hezbollah members. Hezbollah are trying to keep their communication away from Israel's prying eyes. This was literally the reason why they switched from cellphones to walkie-talkies and pagers. They are not going to hand their devices to random ass civilians as there is a non zero chance that an undercover Israeli agent is that civilian.

Israel knew that lots of civilians were going to be harmed

Israel did as targeted of an attack as they could. To have one joke in this, Israel casted "fire ball but only if you're a terrorist" it is impossible for Israel to know exactly where every hezbollah member is at any given second. They cannot make sure that there are no civilians near all hezbollah members. The only way an attack could have been more targeted is if Israeli agents confirmed that someone is 100% a hezbollah member and shot each confirmed person square in the head. That is literally impossible to do on a mass scale, especially since any Israeli agent who entered Lebanon would get killed by hezbollah if they are found out.

You can (and should) mourn innocent civilians who lost their lives or were injured due to the attack whilst also recognizing the attack was a targeted attack at hezbollah. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

[heritageposts]

Israel is now carrying out another massive terrorist attack in Lebanon. Similar to the pager attack yesterday, Israel is targeting electronic devices and making them explode all over the country:

Reuters news agency reported, citing both a security source and an eyewitness, that the devices involved in Wednesday’s explosions were portable radios, unlike the pagers that were attacked the previous day. Al-Mayadeen reported that the devices, apparently ICOM V82s, detonated, and “due to the devices containing highly flammable lithium batteries, the explosions were severe.” “The explosions caused massive fires in cars, motorcycles, apartments, and stores all over Lebanon,” the report added.

Several residential buildings and shops are on fire. Nine people have been killed so far, and hundreds more are wounded.

People with family in Lebanon are now receiving texts and calls from their loved ones telling them not to worry if they don't hear from them for a few days, as they're scared their phones might be rigged with explosives.

What do you call this, if not terrorism?