Israel’s operation embarrassed Hezbollah, traumatized Lebanon, and signaled a whole new level of cyber warfare against terrorists.
NewLinesMagazineOn Tuesday and Wednesday, pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and Syria exploded in an attack the group laid blame for on Israel. The explosions killed 37 people and wounded at least 3,000. Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader, said in a speech on Thursday that the attacks had crossed a red line.
The exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, which appear to have been sneaked into Hezbollah’s supply chain in a coup for Israel’s intelligence services, have triggered great horror and suffering — to the Hezbollah cadres who were its primary victims and lost lives, appendages and eyes and the citizenry at large, among whom rumors run amok of exploding iPhones triggered by Bluetooth signals in this novel form of warfare.
In the hours after the attacks, memes proliferated. Among them was a soldier sporting a balaclava and military fatigues cradling half a dozen messenger pigeons. Another featured two plastic cups connected with a wire with the caption: “If anyone wants to call me, this is my new number.” There were jokes about exploding toilets, as well as a photoshopped photo of Nasrallah, face blackened from an explosion, stating, “There is no need to be scared,” reminiscent of the famous meme of a comic dog drinking coffee at a table as the house burns around him, declaring that “this is fine.”
The pager bombings have undoubtedly dealt a major blow to Hezbollah, irrespective of whether the operation had a specific aim as a deterrence signal, is the opening salvo of a war or amounts to no change in strategy at all. The reality is that Israel infiltrated the party’s supply networks, blew up thousands of its operatives and damaged its ability to communicate internally. The incidents will likely spur a hunt for agents and collaborators within the organization.
It is unclear how deeply Israel’s infiltration goes, but its ability to target so many operatives simultaneously without the need to track them using sophisticated digital technology is both unsettling to and embarrassing for Hezbollah.
That was the hit of the year here and it was really good. To be able to think this up and then to do it is extrodinary and yep when one can do it then the Mossad and friends.GOOD JOB. The outcome is not only a few deads but the rest well they are breeding pigeons to fly the mail (hi hi). Keep them away from the communication and you have the edge to wipe them out. Good Job and give us more.
“The attacks had crossed a red line.”
Woooooooo. Bring it on Muzztards. Let’s see how far the IDF pushes your imaginary red lines.
If they make it all the way to Mecca, you owe us infidels free beers and pork sausages. 🌭
Don’t drop a challenge and leave mdway. Show us what you’ve got.
Steve, the red line is the one they sing and chant about. From the river to the sea the red line is for all to see so lets give it life and make this red line glow in the dark. Ill take the free beer and pork sausages while watching the IDF do the job but it would be nice to have a riffle so that you can participate in the red line thing.
Every country should learn from this!!! Erase Islam.
If Mohammed is so prophetic, why didn’t he warn his followers of the tricky Jews?
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Not sure what you are
Those dangling nads just getting in the way
Well we can help you remove them.
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Allah Ak KABOOM
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The shalom on the pager is cool and when this was what they saw before the explosion then its great shalom and say goodbye to your manhood..good stuff.
I don’t think there was actually a “shalom” on the pagers, but it sums up the brilliance of the entire operation in a one word tongue in cheek.
Extrodinary brilliant is what it is. This idea was the right one then to cut them off of the technology of communication is half of the win and yes this is mindboggeling on how in the hell did they do this and the big part is the long planning and the possibillity to do it. That is what impresses me and yes im very impressed and that is why i allways have said that the IDF isa the best millitary in the world and that means that the secret service (Mossad) is also a part of the millitary then without it the millitary would lose her strentgh.
Daniel, Israel set up several “dummy” manufacturing companies in Europe that make mobile devices. But nobody knew the plants were secretly owned by Israel. When Hezbollah placed an order for all their pagers with one of these companies, Israel was able to arm them before they left the plant. Sheer genius, indeed.
Oh yeah but to be able to see so far into the future is extrodinary and then to have this idea and for all to make it work is wow a big thing. This has put Mossad on the list way up top then this no one else can do. keep the secret and keep the edge. Im so impressed that i cant find words to say it. I still would love to see exploding toilets in the morning then i have in my minds eyes assgrabbing mudslimes that fly through the air, that would be the cherry on the big cake. Maybe its in the planning and we just dont know it so let us keep our eyes and ears open then you never know.
There are no rules to war except eliminate your enemy to commit war and kill him. Period full stop!!!!
W.T. Sherman
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
Indeed, it was a fun two days. Some ball busting event it was. Ingenious and well planned.
I watched this go down and laughed my ass off.
Well done, Israel~!
Proves HaShem is guiding their hands
I haven’t been this happy and amused in years, and I’m not even a Jew.
How dare you all!
Don’t you know that under Shari’a Law it is the most serious of crimes for any infidel to strike back against any Muslim?