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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:27:33 +1000
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On 19/09/2024 1:04 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:23 +0100, chrisq <devzero@nospam.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/18/24 05:09, 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.
>>>
>>
>> Don't judge, as i'm not there and the truth is the first casualty in
>> war. The way I read it is: Release all the hostages and stop trying
>> to destroy Israel, and then they might talk. Horrendous suffering on
>> both sides, but how else to deal with murdering savages ?...
>>
> 
> Only savages take - and murder - innocent hostages.

But Israel's casual attitude to collateral damage is equally uncivilised.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney