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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is definitely one of the most interesting attacks that’s ever happened. It certainly doesn’t look like an accident. If it was indeed Mossad: take a bow, you’ve earned it. That was a pretty slick move. That was probably a difficult op to pull off. Gotta respect the craft, even if you disagree on the method.

[–] machineLearner@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if you wouldve said the same thing about 9/11

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

9/11 targeted and killed civilians. This attack largely struck Hezbollah militants, who are in open hostilities with Israel. Doing things this way is far better than the seemingly indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.

[–] machineLearner@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You know not everyone in Hezbollah is a « militant » right? They have a large political party and civilian governance apparatus. This is terrorism, nothing new to Israel.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Militants specifically use these pagers for security and stealth. Everyone else just uses phones.

It's a brilliant way to target only combatants, and also expose them to their friends and neighbours. This attack is incredibly disruptive with very little collateral damage compared to alternatives.

And yes, it's terrorism, an attack meant to inspire terror and disrupt communication networks with a chilling effect much larger than the actual damage. However it's interesting as unlike most terrorism it does not target civilians.

It's also terrifying to think we are living in a world where a malicious component attack is a legitimate concern. This is one of those moments that change the world - I'm sure every industry is thinking about the danger of their foreign supply chain right now.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Oh so everyone there who had a pager must have been a bad guy. Got it, solid logic. Can't wait for the war to spread further.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

unlike most terrorism it does not target civilians.

Also, unlike most of the IDF attacks.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 months ago

IDF is closer to waffen SS than a terror cell...

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

To take this to it's logical extreme, how do you feel about assassination attempts on high ranking Nazi officials? They're non combatants, after all.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I'm sure Islamic State and the Taliban have non-combatant elements too.

I don't mind Israel defending against militant groups that fire rockets into Israel. I do mind them carpet-bombing civilian populations. This pager-thing seems to have the hallmarks of an operation that manages to cripple Hezbollah with a minimal loss of life and even fairly low civilian casualties. I much prefer Israel do this over the alternatives.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As does america have non-combat elements too.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US army does indeed, and they would be valid military targets. People working for the EPA, perhaps not so much. Hezbollah however is structured towards support for the militant arm, as the Lebanese government handles civilian tasks.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Well it seems its up to the attacker to decide what is considered valid military targets. Al Qaeda viewed 9/11 as a valid military target.

Indiscriminate killing is always bad, no matter how targeted you think it is. In this case it was mass maiming, oh and a few kids died right? That'll teach em to stop being bad people won't it!

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Its not rocket science how they did it. What is the impressive part? Are we really just going to say civilians don't matter? Is it impressive to you because of how many people were hurt?

In no way is it required to respect the craft or the method.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I was about to say, they're fucked in the head, but goddamn that was ingenious.

[–] craigers@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How exactly did they pull that off? And with walkie-talkies too. There's no way you can do that with normal RF. The only thing I can figure is they had to intercept the devices and tamper with them in some way.