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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:33:28 +1000
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On 18/09/2024 2:09 pm, john larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:56:22 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/17/2024 7:32 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>>> They probably got a few militants among the thousands of civilians
>>>> injured, only credulous Americans would believe there was any kind of
>>>> highly rigorous methodology as to how they were distributed.
>>>
>>> I understand that Hezbollah bought the pagers for their own use for
>>> secure communications, so Hezbollah people mostly got them.
>>>
>>> Collateral damage is to some extent inevitable in war, but the
>>> Israelis are not terrorists. Hamas and Hezbollah are.
>>
>> Israel is fighting its war on terror about the same way the US lost our
>> own; bomb and shoot anything that moves and if someone gets hit rely on
>> the mainstream media to dutifully report that one more dangerous
>> terrorist has been eliminated.
> 
> The difference is that they are fighting for their survival, against
> barbarian creeps who want them all dead.

Their insensitivity to collateral damage makes them look like decidedly 
barbarian creeps too.

>> Rinse and repeat until the act is no longer politically expedient and
>> retreat in disgrace.
> 
> Retreat into the sea?

That's not the only option. If Israel negotiated a good enough deal with 
  the non-barbarian majority in occupied Palestine, that majority might 
reject Hamas. Killing off dozens of the non-barbarian majority for every 
Hamas member eliminated isn't a route to that kind of solution.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney