Is the Lebanon walkie-talkie and pager sabotage part of a big picture strategic attack to force Hesbollah to use cell phones, which can be tracked?

It’s a tactic to help Trump get elected in November by creating a larger war in the Middle East.

I doubt it, but I’m just guessing. I don’t know much about these things, but if they know to check, can’t they check the pagers and phones for explosive devises?

Seems like it was just to terrorize and kill. Did they kill some high ranking Hezbollah people? I have not read or watched any of the details about the attack.

Side note: If you have never watched the show Tehran you might like it. Show about the Mossad on a mission in Tehran.

Is it so difficult to call this what it is?
Terrorism.

All part of a deadly “game”’ that I’m afraid will never end.

Whoever invents invisible and silent spy and attack drones that could fly into enemies homes and bunkers undetected and kill with impunity would have the greater advantage.

Hezb. has sworn to wipe out Israel and is funded by Iran. Isr. has sworn to wipe out Hezb.
This is an excellent way to destroy Hezb command and control and sow distrust in communication systems.
Whether you approve of it or not, you have to admit it was a darn clever targeted attack.

@ragingloli I suppose that it’s technically called terrorism, but I have a hard time thinking of it as terrorism when it’s against terrorists. I take that back…according to the definition, it’s not terrorism. “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”

I doubt it. I think it was a way to target only Hezbollah soldiers. They all carried pagers or Walkie-Talkies, so Israel figured out how to attach explosives to them without the soldiers knowing. Then, when they ignite them, only the soldiers are killed or injured. Not a bad plan. It makes screws up Hezbollah’s comms for a while until they can figure out something else. If they go to cell phones, that might be a benefit, but I doubt that was the primary focus.

I think it was a dangerous attempt to provoke a wider war in the North now that they have destroyed Gaza without any positive results. I don’t really see what Israel’s long game is and all they are doing is strengthening the hatred of their neighboring populations.

@janbb Once again, go back to see how all this played out. Palestinians in Gaza (Hamas) attacked Israel, not the other way around. Israel responded, for sure, but that is to be expected. While they were focused on Gaza, Hezbollah started attacking Israel. Again, Israel did not initiate conflict. This isn’t about Israel fostering hatred of their neighbors, it is their neighbors fostering hatred against Israel. And both Hamas and Hezbollah are funded by Iran.

@ragingloli is right. It was a terrorist attack. Psychological warfare as well. It’s clear that both sides have been avoiding wider war despite numerous provocations, but if this isn’t a pretext for it, I don’t know what is.