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In reply to the discussion: Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members, Lebanese security source says [View all]
Coventina
(28,079 posts)108. Please provide the link to the rule of war that says enemy communications are an illegitimate target.
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Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members, Lebanese security source says [View all]
LiberalArkie
Sep 2024
OP
Or might as well let them blow up Israelis, because that's really their raison d'etre
elias7
Sep 2024
#142
Note to self: Don't put my pager or cell phone in my front pants pocket. 🔥 🌰🌰 🔥
TheBlackAdder
Sep 2024
#129
And remarkably resembling the just leaked Mossad tapes of the operation. Rockets and all:
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#184
Nope. It's not targeting civilians. However, Hezbollah is not the government of Lebanon.
haele
Sep 2024
#12
Certain folks sure do seem to get upset when Israel gets in the way of their Hezbollah/Hamas buddies....
tritsofme
Sep 2024
#23
That's because most people who don't know average people from that area think black and white.
haele
Sep 2024
#61
The question is: does the government of the sovereign state of lebanon have Hezbollah's permission
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#185
What happens when someone initiates a war? Israel did not initiate this war. When Germany...
Hekate
Sep 2024
#165
Alas, that is exactly what the slogan "From the river to the sea" means. It means to do what was done in 1492...
Hekate
Sep 2024
#207
No, it does not, unless a person is one of those idiot US protestors who doesn't know what company they keep
Hekate
Sep 2024
#212
You are indeed misunderstanding. No, not every action taken by Israel is automatically justified in my mind.
thucythucy
Sep 2024
#244
And I'm guessing you live in a country with oceans on 2 sides, Canada to the North and Mexico to the South
elias7
Sep 2024
#145
What kind of incompetent terrorist would leave his Nasrallah issued pager in a child's room?
Beastly Boy
Sep 2024
#196
I thought the lithium but I remembered the pager I used to carry ran about 3 months on a AAA battery
LiberalArkie
Sep 2024
#6
The battery as the explosive is extremely unlikely when comparing against the videos coming out
Amishman
Sep 2024
#10
Even with a casing - using the battery like a pipe bomb - you'd still have pyrotechnics
Amishman
Sep 2024
#34
Yes... a cell phone battery can explode in the same manner. It's not likely but they can...
mikelewis
Sep 2024
#21
That's really a big if... while a clandestine attack like that is movie quality...
mikelewis
Sep 2024
#30
I think you'll find most people have no problem with giving exploding pagers to terrorists
EX500rider
Sep 2024
#92
So you don't think it's okay to supply exploding pagers to terrorists which is what they did?
EX500rider
Sep 2024
#144
Israel (and seemingly no one else either) never ratified the Safe Pagers for Terrorists
TheKentuckian
Sep 2024
#169
It may also be the cell phone companies ensuring that pagers never rise again... you just never know...
mikelewis
Sep 2024
#35
No... it's just I saw no reason to immediately assume Israel was behind the attack...
mikelewis
Sep 2024
#97
Right, but don't forget that Israel has no beef with Lebanon. This is all on them.
elias7
Sep 2024
#146
I am confused. Are you saying ISRAELIS "distributed boxes of pagers" ? Did you miss the part...
Hekate
Sep 2024
#171
And do you think the terrorists will tell you how many terrorists die compared to civilians?
EX500rider
Sep 2024
#85
Precisely targeting the communications network of an opposing militia is not a terror attack.
mathematic
Sep 2024
#147
Seriously... it could just a major run of poorly engineered lithium batteries...
mikelewis
Sep 2024
#42
Hard to hide that you belong to the terrorist group if you have an exploding pager.
Bev54
Sep 2024
#64
Ok... so this is interesting. Apparently the pagers were pinged just before exploding... that changes things...
mikelewis
Sep 2024
#93
Please provide the link to the rule of war that says enemy communications are an illegitimate target.
Coventina
Sep 2024
#108
My opinion would be that those deaths would be on the terrorist org., Hizbollah,
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#156
I think you are ignorant past belief if you don't recognize that DU's veterans have knowledge & experience...
Hekate
Sep 2024
#178
So just out of curiosity, what did your decade of Air Force experience involve that meant you...
Hekate
Sep 2024
#205
This operation was as closely targeted as it is possible to be. And as has been pointed out...
Hekate
Sep 2024
#195
You do realize Hezbollah has been actively attacking Israel since October 8, don't you?
elias7
Sep 2024
#240
Three or four people in this thread don't know it & don't believe it regardless
Hekate
Sep 2024
#241
Well then I guess most of us on this thread are going to hell because most of us support
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#117
Oh goody, block us all. I will not block you, however, as I am sure your progress here will be full of incident.
Hekate
Sep 2024
#215
That's right... Hezbollah recently killed some children with one of the 100s of rocket attacks on Israel.
notroot
Sep 2024
#217
Maybe those poor "doctors" and "nurses" shouldn't be carrying TERRORIST pagers?
notroot
Sep 2024
#183
And kittens. Why would a pager-carrying terrorist be in a hospital unless it had already gone off?
Hekate
Sep 2024
#214
As has been proven, just because you're a doctor doesn't mean you're not a terrorist too.
Coventina
Sep 2024
#228
Pagers should be turned off in flight. These pagers were purchased by the terrorists themselves.
Coventina
Sep 2024
#227