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[–] [email protected] 37 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The media condemned political violence against Trump in unison one month ago.

Israel commits one of the biggest terrorist attacks against a Lebanese political organization in history and the media claps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

My concern twofold

A: Without evidence I have a hard time seeing planting bombs in devices was solely targeted at fighters. Odds are an entire shipment was targeted and many people who weren't Hezbollah received bombs

B: Blowing up devices that were by definition carried everywhere certainly killed families and associates who didn't deserve to die.

During the Iraqi war we considered Iraqi leadership targets and I wouldn't have been surprised if they considered our leadership targets as well. If they had in fact only killed Hezbollah I would have no problem with the attack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

In Iraq every Iraqi civilian was considered a valid target.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

The definition of "enemy combatant" was "anyone within the blast radius of a US strike". I kid you not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

And they whined about a fucking bus exploding.

About some pipe rockets killing a random bloke or two.

And this

against a Lebanese political organization

appears to be wrong since their attack wasn't at all this targeted. It's a mass terror campaign against whole Lebanese population in order to saturate its attention and reduce morale before an invasion.

We all got complacent relying on big nations with big militaries for punishing such behavior, and they are all in bed with the criminal.

Despite this not being Hezbollah's best moment, I think they and similar guerrillas are the exact kind of people we should learn from for solutions to Israel and the rest of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 16 hours ago

Call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.

[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If this was the other way around, we'd have global outrage, days of mourning and piles of new weapons for Israel right now. We'd be speaking about one of the worst terrorist attacks in history.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This was a stupid decision by Israel. They have given the green light to mass attacks through consumer products. Can they really afford to protect all their imported products (electronics, food, water, etc) from every type of attack?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

There is no intelligence behind genocide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They don't have to, the supply chain is friendlier to them than to Lebanese.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

The supply chain goes from the source to the consumer. It doesn't have to be and elaborate and expensive operation to have an effect. Several unrelated individuals poke 1 or 2 tiny holes into some fruits and vegetables during their weekly grocery shopping. Once people start to notice there will be panic about food security. Most people won't care but enough will that it will cost grocery stores money in unsellable products and increased vigilance. Prices go up. If you can't trust your fellow human to not sneeze at the buffet table, how are you going to trust your neighbour/worker who lost x relatives to not tamper with your ice cream in the unlocked fridge at the store.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So, what Israel is admitting here, is that they could individually pinpoint and target Hamas but instead carpet bombed Palestine into genocide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They are openly showing that they can do whatever they want.

All the rest is gaslighting so that you'd not be completely sure that that's what they are saying, thus not so confident in yourself. Another kind of attacking other's morale.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 day ago (13 children)

supply chain attacks are dirty tactics too, they have no idea who is holding 3000 pagers when detonation.

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