Hezbollah Exploding Pagers!

Some utterly sickening posts on here. “More power to their elbow” Shame on you.
The Israeli government is widely despised and will never win this war. And along the way innocents will be murdered and starve to death.
The way we sit here in our ivory towers and pass judgement is very sad indeed.

Arabs are mocking Arabs on X.
This link contains content that people might find offensive.

www.memri.org/reports/following-hizbullah-pager-explosions-arabs-social-media-slam-organization-and-celebrate-its

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/the-guardian-view-on-israels-booby-trap-war-and-unacceptable
It's clear that the use of booby traps is against international law. Children have died. I find it hard to believe that anyone with a shred of humanity wouldn't be horrified. Of course now we have the real prospect of escalation and all out war. How much suffering is enough?

Rekarie

Galaxy

It's funny maybe I missed it but I don't remember any sad threads when Hezbollah were bombing children playing football.

So true. Twelve children were killed.

I'm at a loss as to how so much barbarism is ongoing in the middle east. Arab against Arab is somehow seen differently when it's the Jewish race involved. Hundreds of thousands of people misplaced , murdered yet hardly a word. It's just when Jews fight back there is a clamour of indignation.

Think back to all the atrocities the western world has experienced over the last decades.

Were any of those perpetuated by Jewish terrorists? I dont think so.

I don't understand the comment about "Arab against Arab". Which Arabs do you think were responsible?
Israel has to be the Number 1 suspect, but Israel certainly isn't Arab. Iran backs Hezbollah, but Iranians aren't Arabs. So which other Arabs were involved?

If you're talking about other conflicts, it might surprise you to know that even amongst Arabs, there are differences. My son-in-law identifies as Arab, but his background is Sudan, which is in Africa. He certainly doesn't think he has much in common with Arabs from the Saudi peninsula or Syria.

People may have differing opinions on here but I find the use of smiley emojis sickening

Galaxy

It's funny maybe I missed it but I don't remember any sad threads when Hezbollah were bombing children playing football.

So true. Twelve children were killed.

I'm at a loss as to how so much barbarism is ongoing in the middle east. Arab against Arab is somehow seen differently when it's the Jewish race involved. Hundreds of thousands of people misplaced , murdered yet hardly a word. It's just when Jews fight back there is a clamour of indignation.

Think back to all the atrocities the western world has experienced over the last decades.

Were any of those perpetuated by Jewish terrorists? I dont think so.

Well yesterday 80 innocent people were killed in Gaza again, as the death toll exceeds 40,000.
I think would be naive to expect that the Israeli government is extending greater care not to kill innocent people in Lebanon. Their present MO does not inspire one to believe this.

Oreo

Depends which people eggplant it would be a better safer world without all the terrorist groups like Hezbollah.

Terrorists or freedom fighters or insurgents or militia or armed forces or mercenaries or settlers?

Maybe the driver was Hezbollah?
These devices were commissioned by Hezbollah and distributed to them.
Don’t waste your sympathy on them.

Today were explosions caused by phones, and lap tops, as well as walkie talkies, apparently an ambulance using a walkie talkie was targeted, so it appears to be a bit more hit and miss than originally thought.

As I said that 'empathy' will get us all killed.

Depends which people eggplant it would be a better safer world without all the terrorist groups like Hezbollah.

Galaxy

It's funny maybe I missed it but I don't remember any sad threads when Hezbollah were bombing children playing football.

It's funny because I don't remember anything other than sadness when people are hurt.

It’s not only pagers but also radio devices. I have no comment to make, it has been said. Selfishly as they weren’t discovered what will they do about check in for fights,

Innocent bystanders always get injured and killed in wars. Innocents like those young people at a music festival and the inhabitants of the settlements attacked last October and killed, raped and kidnapped. All the Gazans killed becauseHamas has its bases in schools, hospitals and blocks of flats.

It is the same in any and every war, conflict, insurgency, call it what you will.

The problem is Hamas has not only got one weapon - propaganda, it is totally impotent fighting, it can only try to force international opinion the make Israel, give in, the more deaths the more propaganda.

Hamas seem to base their military communications in schools and hospitals to maximize the death toll of civilians, every one is a martyr to the cause of Palestine.
Of course Hamas don’t want “Palestinian” state at all, they want an Islamic state with them in charge

It's funny maybe I missed it but I don't remember any sad threads when Hezbollah were bombing children playing football.

Babs03

petra

People seem to have forgotten the horrors Hezbollah committed supporting Assad in the Syrian civil war.
It is estimated that 618,000 were killed.
That’s not forgetting the tens of thousands that had to leave everything behind when they had to leave their homeland.

I don’t think anyone supports Hezbollah.
But innocent bystanders were killed and maimed in these recent attacks which happened in crowded public places in many cases.

Innocent bystanders? I think most of those injured were Hezbollah operatives as the devices went off in their hands.
Could well end up saving lives if Hezbollah back off a war with Israel.

I have no sympathy for terrorists and am quite frightened of people who do. Its war and war against dangerous dangerous people.
Empathy and compassion will probably be the death of many more innocents.

I am no terrorism expert

I have enormous sympathy for all civilians of any age caught up in terrorists acts.

If the destroying of Hezbollahs means of communication, pits a halt to their terrorist activities, even temporarily it will save innocent lives.

As for Putin, Iran et al getting this technology, of course they already have the knowledge, no doubt the west and China as well.

eggplant

I cannot for the life of me comprehend some of these comments on here.

This is real life and real human beings. They have suffered hideous injuries. Can you imagine for one second if this had happened in a market place near you? Show a shred of compassion.

Another thing that puzzles me is what makes ( apparently) lay people experts on terrorism and the absolute mess that is the Middle East.

Quite.

I don't think anyone is forgetting those horrors, petra. It's perfectly possible to condemn all the atrocities Hezbollah have committed over the years while still expressing one's sympathy for innocent victims of the latest incidents. Yes, there is 'collateral damage' in all wars and conflicts, but that doesn't mean we should be dismissive of those caught up in them through no fault of their own.

I cannot for the life of me comprehend some of these comments on here.

This is real life and real human beings. They have suffered hideous injuries. Can you imagine for one second if this had happened in a market place near you? Show a shred of compassion.

Another thing that puzzles me is what makes ( apparently) lay people experts on terrorism and the absolute mess that is the Middle East.

petra

People seem to have forgotten the horrors Hezbollah committed supporting Assad in the Syrian civil war.
It is estimated that 618,000 were killed.
That’s not forgetting the tens of thousands that had to leave everything behind when they had to leave their homeland.

I don’t think anyone supports Hezbollah.
But innocent bystanders were killed and maimed in these recent attacks which happened in crowded public places in many cases.

People seem to have forgotten the horrors Hezbollah committed supporting Assad in the Syrian civil war.
It is estimated that 618,000 were killed.
That’s not forgetting the tens of thousands that had to leave everything behind when they had to leave their homeland.