The sound of many of them exploding


  • dlatch@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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.

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      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.

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      2 months 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.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Lotta Hezbollah flags in that crowd, was that some kind of funeral procession from yesterday’s pagers?

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    2 months ago

    So if I understand correctly, Israel managed to get a bunch of people in Hezbollah to use pagers and walkie talkies that contained bombs. But they have not been able to gather enough intelligence from control of those communication devices to find and rescue the remaining hostages? And if they weren’t able to catch useful information from those devices, why did the people holding those devices deserve to get blown up?

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      2 months ago

      The hostages are in Gaza, not Lebanon. If Israel had this level of infiltration with Hamas, it is unlikely this would’ve started in the first place

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    2 months ago

    Ok, guys, after the pager thing, I am pretty sure walkie talkies are next. Like that’s really An obvious one.

    I don’t have any ideas on what next. Landline phones probably.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Terrorists killing terrorists… Nice. Seriously… what is next? Exploding toilet seats with verses from quran, issued last ramadan only to elite hezbollah members?

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    2 months ago

    Ok, on the one hand, yes, blowing up Hamas is funny.

    OTOH, this is not cool, bombing random people is a problem.

    The US has this wonderful system called the Hellfire R-9X which is basically a flying slap-chop that ginzus a single target with 9 pop-out blades. Can we hand a couple over to the IDF and Mossad so they stop randomly blowing up parts of Lebanon?

    It’s not killing Hamas that’s the issue, it’s the collateral.