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72. It's unsettling BUT I prefer this

Reply to Rustynaerduwell (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2024, 09:34 PM

Sep 18

over 2,000 pound bombs lobbed indiscriminately on innocent civilians in Gaza (assuming the IDF did their homework first and they were sure that the pagers would only be used by hezbollah).

What many people have been demanding all along was for Israel to use their intelligence capabilities to carry out their mission in a more sophisticated manner--to stop with the indiscriminate killing, and to fight the actual planners / perpetrators of the various attacks.

So even though my first reaction to the "pager" attack was one of disgust, if it's true that most (preferably all) of the injured were active hezbollah fighters then I can accept that carnage as part of the ugliness of war.

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How is loading pagers and walkie talkies with explosives and letting them be in the hands of [View all] Rustynaerduwell Sep 18 OP

The indiscrimination of it was proven out by the result. bullimiami Sep 18 #1

Who loaded cell phones with bombs and let them float around till they kill someone? AZSkiffyGeek Sep 18 #2

That has been my question also. Im told Israel diverted them and loaded them and Hesbollah never noticed Srkdqltr Sep 18 #33

Those were pagers, not cellphones. tinrobot Sep 18 #42

I would hazard a guess that Hizbollah won't anymore. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 18 #49

+ 1 soandso Sep 18 #87

The world is not the US sarisataka Sep 18 #50

They used pagers because they can't be monitored and surveilled and tracked like cellphones. TheRickles Sep 18 #52

Also read drs and nurses use pagers because cell phones can be spotty womanofthehills Sep 18 #77

Mossad are very good at that sort of thing - and VERY patient AZSkiffyGeek Sep 18 #48

That would be terrorism, has anyone done that? sarisataka Sep 18 #3

+1 Dave Bowman Sep 18 #4

I think the reference is to the pagers loaded with explosives that Israel sold to members of militant (terrorist) groups JT45242 Sep 18 #5

No more certain they can be than that a bullet fired in combat only hits the enemy. nt LAS14 Sep 18 #10

Actually this is more like an IED... ExciteBike66 Sep 18 #45

It's been reported Israel also tampered with car radios womanofthehills Sep 19 #96

Reported by whom? MarineCombatEngineer Sep 19 #115

Because they were obtained through specific channels by Hezbollah. MineralMan Sep 18 #12

They were distributed 5 months ago - womanofthehills Sep 18 #79

You don't know that soandso Sep 18 #88

Just reposting what's being reported womanofthehills Sep 19 #97

Things are about to get much worse, I'm afraid soandso Sep 19 #102

I doubt that Hezbollah members were giving out pagers intended for Hezbollah communications onenote Sep 19 #92

Perhaps so. However, how would someone use a pager MineralMan Sep 19 #120

Hezbollah uses pagers because cell phones are more easily tracked. If this was a bulk order placed by LauraInLA Sep 18 #13

They were not sold by Israel sarisataka Sep 18 #18

But wouldn't Hezbollah have noticed that the package was diverted and tampered with? Srkdqltr Sep 18 #24

Apparently not. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 18 #25

Wonder if they will leave a one star review... ExciteBike66 Sep 18 #47

LOL. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 18 #51

If it was diverted, maybe sarisataka Sep 18 #30

Taiwanese company soandso Sep 18 #89