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In reply to the discussion: Human Rights Watch: Pager Attack is "Unlawfully Indiscriminate" [View all]MarineCombatEngineer
(15,872 posts)15. What were health care workers doing with Hizbollah pagers?
The vast majority of those injured were Hizbollah or Hizbollah affiliated terrorists, the deaths of those 2 children is tragic, but that's on Hizbollah for having a terrorist pager.
At least Israel did it's dead level best to minimize the collateral damage to the civilian pop., something that Hizbollah doesn't.
This was a brilliant targeted attack of an enemy of Israel and it severely disrupted their C&C systems which, in turn, disrupts their ability to wage war against Israel.
You may think it's a war crime or inappropriate, I really don't care, but it achieved it's goal with minimal civilian casualties.
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Terrorism doesn't suddenly stop becoming terrorism just because a government is doing it.
ColinC
Sep 2024
#3
Yet strangely enough I haven't heard nearly the uproar here regarding 11 months of bombings by Hezbollah against Israel
Hekate
Sep 2024
#8
The attacks across the border have been mutual with Israel exacting a much larger death toll (around 500)
ColinC
Sep 2024
#10
No, we're CELEBRATING the killing and maiming of Hizbollah terrorists.
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#12
Ridiculous. This is the most targeted operation in history afaict. The pagers were specifically for terrorist operatives
Hekate
Sep 2024
#7
Hezbollah buys a bunch of encrypted pagers and issues them to their soldiers and that's indiscriminate?
EX500rider
Sep 2024
#9
What is a "Hezbollah-linked" civilian? And link for the claim that "most" weren't Hezbollah?
onenote
Sep 2024
#14
12 civilians killed in first attack, 20 were killed in the latest attack and only 10 were Hezbollah
ColinC
Sep 2024
#17
Sources have already been provided in other threads, but you knew that,
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#22
Do you blame the parents when children accidentally shoot themselves with a gun?
AZSkiffyGeek
Sep 2024
#51
You sure are going out of your way to condemn Israel for targeting Hizbollah
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#25
Not out of my way. I just give human emotions and rational criticism to things that bother me
ColinC
Sep 2024
#27
I would call it a brilliant attack as long as there were minimal civilian casualties
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#28
What happened in Lebanon was a targeted attack against Hizbollah's Command and Control apparatus,
MarineCombatEngineer
Sep 2024
#32
You are the one trying to spin Hezbollah members as "civilians" but that is some bull.
TheKentuckian
Sep 2024
#48