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The Pager Condemnations Roll In
Yes, you read that right. Despite Israel conducting the most targeted and most precise take-down of an active enemy’s communications and officers’ corps in history – they have committed offenses against international law. Consider just one highly relevant source, the UN Human Rights Chief:
“Simultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowledge as to who was in possession of the targeted devices, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law.”
Let’s dissect this a bit, shall we?
- The first offense seems to be ‘Simultaneous.’ I would bet more than a few donuts that international law has nothing to say about more simultaneous attacks being somehow less legal.
- The second offense is ‘without knowledge as to who was in possession…’ Really? Does Hezbollah hand these out like candy to civilians in the street? It is unfortunately true that one or two terrorists’ children were playing with daddy’s pager — but it is generally acceptable to kill a terrorist with a missile that endangers their family. This was far less challenging an equation.
- ‘Their location.’ Find me an international law that says you have to know where the enemy is. I don’t think anybody has conceived of a targeted attack without knowing. This is meaningless.
- ‘Their surroundings.’ The attacks were so limited in scope that the surroundings were meaningless. We saw that in the videos.
I’m no expert in international law, but the only law being applied here seems to be: “The only Jewish state in the world is the only one not allowed to kill those who are actively engaged in attacking it.”
Sorry, Mr. Human Rights, your mask is slipping.
It’s okay though. We don’t need you to love us. Just don’t go so far as to get yourself a pager.
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Condemnations? I want to send fan mail.
There is no proof that Israel had anything to do with the pager or radio explosions. More likely, these events represent G-d looking out for His chosen people.
People don’t worry anymore about attacking Israel with statements that make sense. Any attack will do.
I am also bothered by the fact some kids were killed this way. I understand how it happens and I don’t forget that Hamas deliberately kills women and children but, yes, it bothers me that kids were killed.
However, Israel has the right and and obligation to protect themselves and their children with operations such as this.
JDS was around long before TDS.
It is sad.
Fortunately this attack is still justified, even as we regret the innocents who did die.
Perhaps the terrorists should consider that before perpetrating war.
The UN people are just concerned about how many UN people might get killed as terrorists.
Of course, they should but that shouldn’t stop those of us with decent morals from seeing the small tragedies and lamenting them.
Absolutely. These tragedies are just that. Completely unnecessary… if there was an absence of conflict.
How could there be an absence of conflict? It is pretty easy.
With these actions there would be no more collateral damage. I would embrace these actions – followed up by opening of trade, power and cultural borders and some sort of political maturation process for the Palestinian people to culminate in a state of their own.
FYI, we lost a 20-year-old paramedic in Gaza yesterday. Our first female combat loss. At the same time Hezbollah reports ‘4 private doctors in Lebanon’s south’ died – that would suggest they lost paramedics too.
Wouldn’t it be nice not to need combat paramedics?
What did they say when Hezbollah rained 8000 unguided rockets on Israeli Civilians?
Be interesting to see how many UN Blue Hats had Hezbollah supplied pagers and radios.
Hopefully several fewer, now.
I’m surprised the U.N. Human Rights Chief didn’t cite Israel for increasing Global Warming and causing supply-chain shortages of communication devices.
I dunno, the exploding pagers likely had less of a Carbon Footprint than what Hezbollah wants to do.
I laugh again every time I think about it.
I’d be censured here if I wrote what I think, but citizen I am LOL.
No, I don’t think so. Combat medicine is one of those moral pinnacles – we’d be poorer without combat paramedics.
He said not to NEED, not not to HAVE.
All this time we’ve been told that 5 GHz networks are dangerous. Maybe people should have been warning us about the much lower frequencies used in pager networks, instead.
You’re splitting hares, and the rabbit died.
Yeah, especially the ones using the new 802.PETN protocol.
PETN, RDX, whatever.
Hezbollah hides numbers killed in attacks, Radwan force loses much of command structure
Lebanon reports 26 killed over two days of pager and walkie talkie explosions, but estimates are that the pager attack alone killed dozens of Hezbollah members and maybe more, while elite Radwan force commanders were decimated —ynetnews.com
Yep, that was my comment on another post, I suppose it’s possible that many pagers exploded in tunnels etc, and that may not be known about yet.
Perhaps the people we know were killed or injured, sometimes even saw video of them being killed or injured, were just those too important – or not important ENOUGH – to be at the big meetings, or dealing with weapons in tunnels…
Hezbollah should really give a 1 star rating on Amazon for those pagers and walkie-talkies they ordered.
PERHAPS that’s a KILLER obserVATION.
I already have.
But seriously: Mr. UN Commission to Insure Future Continued Human Rights Abuses by Islamofascists (I’m for truth in advertising, don’t you know?) failed to condemn rocket fire targeting civilians, murder of hostages, and use of child soliders by Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, among other groups targeting Israel and Jews. The proper response to his blather is [redacted].
I just want to write to THANK YOU – the sane and supportive Ricochetti who appreciate that self defense is a right, that the pager/walkie-talkie attack was the single most targeted assault on a terrorist organization in the history of the world. That people who will do anything to murder other people are evil, and must not be allowed to pursue that ideology. That Jews are not the villains in this story.
If you see what the anti-semites are saying right now, you’ll see why I am so grateful for your support. The world wants me and mine to stop trying to live, to be purged from the world. Hitler’s vision has not been this popular since 1944.
But it is deeply heartening to see that there are a lot of good people out there, too. People who have the ability to see the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.
Thank you.
Who would’ve guessed that in 2024 pagers would explode onto the scene?