Exploding pagers

Talking with Israel never achieved anything. They don't compromise on anything. As for the murdering savages, the pager business is clearly state-backed terrorism AFAICS. And now we have the walkie-talkies! Looks like Hezbolla are going to have to learn semaphore. ;-)

The state of Israel only came into being in the first place due to Jewish terrorist groups like Ergun and the Stern Gang. All these groups in the ME on all sides are a giant pain in the arse to everyone else. Hopefully if Trump gets back into the WH he'll let them all just blow themselves to pieces without any US intervention and we'll finally have peace over there.

Not terrorism. Targeted attacks on specific enemies.

Lol sure, dream on. It's about the only fight he's interested in fighting due the eternal war against Islam being one of the main reasons his Evangelical "friends" are in with this thrice-divorced adulterer in the first place.

The only choice we have with respect to the Middle East conflict this November is whether we want US aid to Israel to go up, or way up.

Incidentally Trump and Harris hardly discussed foreign policy at the debates at all, there is no novel thinking to be found there.

Outside of the context of Evangelicals and the aforementioned forever war the overwhelming majority of Americans simply don't give a f*ck about foreign policy as an election issue, so it's a waste of time for either of them to even think much about it.

Mossad did that in a cellphone used to assassinate a famous bomb maker, Yahya Ayyash, in 1996.

I'm guessing that the high explosive was used as the potting agent, so the pager would look as expected when X-rayed. TNT melts at 82 C.

Joe Gwinn

Am 18.09.24 um 20:08 schrieb john larkin:

Like the 8 year old girl and the other kid among the first dozen of deaths yesterday.

But that has tradition. King Saul's genozide of the Amalekitans left to be desired because of its imperfection. He left their King alive and some extra pretty goats. The Amalekitans really did not like to hand over their land to the Israelites who invaded from Egypt / Sinai. Sounds familiar? Even Nethanyahu talks as of last year? That imperfection was King Saul's ticket to replacement. King David promised > 100% performance, at least. No one left to complain. They still meet under his flag.

You as a south state / Irish bible thumper will have no problem to look it up. Take Book Samuel as a starting point.

Gerhard

The Brits partitioned the area into Jewish and Arab regions, and the UN agreed. And then a bunch of Muslim countries attacked Israel. And lost.

They said that the transmissions in Egyptian tanks had one speed forward and four in reverse.

It is hard for the muslims to make peace with themselves, much less with Israel.

Islam is at war with Islam.

Am 18.09.24 um 22:07 schrieb john larkin:

and with all other mutations of this bronze time idol/ghost and all mutations against each other.

Worst invention ever to hit humanity.

There are many definitions of terrorism:

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Joe Gwinn

That was accidental, collateral damage. Sadly, that happens in war.

I doubt it was her pager.

I live in San Francisco and rarely thump bibles. And I confess to being 3/4 German and 1/4 Irish.

I was surprised to recently receive two Chinese bibles.

It was a high-risk operation with a very high probability of discovery and humiliation for the perpetrators.

IMO makes it less likely there was any "precise targeting" going on, the higher up in the organization you target with these things, and the longer you wait to blow them, the more likely discovery becomes.

Media explanation: The Mossad has super powers, was planning and organizing this for months, and nailed hundreds of high-ranking terrorists with exacting precision, all of whom were too stupid to know anything was amiss.

Realistic explanation: They shipped in a bunch of them in a hurry, doled them out in a hurry to just about whomever wanted one, and popped whomever was unfortunate enough to get their hands on one within about two weeks.

Am 18.09.24 um 22:06 schrieb john larkin:

What is the f****ng biz of the Brits to partition this region? Everywhere on the world where there are straight frontiers the Brits are not far away. That means that the people who used to live there do not have any influence. As much as your Grand-Grand-GrandPa hat on the food exports from Ireland during the famine.

No, having a king-sized base near the Suez channel is no justification. But then, it would take more time to call their underlings from Nepals, India, Africa or down under for help.

And what has the UN to say? An organization with veto countries, a club of the mighty with payed claqueurs, oohh, democracy..

It was a high-risk operation with a very high probability of discovery and humiliation for the perpetrators.

Media explanation: The Mossad has super powers, was planning and organizing this for months, and nailed hundreds of high-ranking terrorists with exacting precision, all of whom were too stupid to know anything was amiss.

Realistic explanation: They shipped in a bunch of them in a hurry, doled them out in a hurry to just about whomever wanted one, and popped whomever was unfortunate enough to get their hands on one within about two weeks.

Given that some people and countries were serfs of a colonial empire, the ex-British colonies sure seem to do best.

And so stupid as to allow the same trick on their walki-talkies the next day.

History is full of insane dictators who made megadeaths. Lots of Russians.

They were tasked by the UN (this time).

And they did similar thing in several places. Intentionally setting the conditions for eternal war in the areas they administered so that they would be eternally weak.

But again, this is off topic.