Reading reddit and seeing everyone trying to justify this nonsense is frighting.
Why should we all not expect our next Amazon device to be just a friendly brick with an ad on it?
Because, unless you can easily open the thing to see inside, there's enough space in side of all new phones to blow our leg or our faces off apparently.
Now thanks to this, phones don't fly. So hey, you're going to Hawaii? Better ship your phone separately on time so it gets there before you do. You want flights to be safe and not full of these dangerous bricks. Ofcourse, screw the mail man who will have to drive from the Continental United States over to Hawaii. It's a water truck... details details...
Should I buy a new device for my kids and or family or myself? Nope unless the thing is transparent like an iMac.
An iMac is an old model personal computer sold by Apple, where the chassis was mostly translucent with bright colors.
This is crazy that we tolerate such a breach of social trust.
I agree, but they probably could've worded it better. The pagers were meant for Hezbollah but that doesn't mean they exclusively went to Hezbollah.
So true. Could you imagine being in Hezbollah and not giving your personal Hezbollah-issued one-way pager away to someone else?
It depends a lot on how the pagers are distributed. Is it a batch that was carefully delivered to only Hezbollah members? Is that where all the pagers from that batch went?
It's not like the pagers are stamped with "for Hezbollah only". I'm concerned how they were all distributed.
More like everyone's suddenly ~~gangsta~~ a 'health worker' when their pager explodes
two kids died in these explosions with much many more wounded.
well guess what we call groups that kill civilians with bombs?
Reminds me of the time Mossad sent letter bombs against Palestinians living abroad.
Imagine if everyone's phone exploded to execute like 10 guys.
Edit: The take aways here are
Israel is a terrorist nation, that views civilian casualties as bonus points
any country who imports their electronics instead of making their own is susceptible to this kind of tampering.
The press is covering a terror attack like its some kind of new video game
All the unexploded ordinance can be delivered to Hezbollah as a gift. If the rumor that this was triggered because they became aware of the bombs, there will likely be many israelis killed by these explosives in the near future.
You could tell Israel did it by the wanton disregard of civilian casualties and the lack of a global governmental backlash against the act.
What I'm surprised is that were able to get them to believe the propaganda that pagers would be a much more secure communication medium.
The articles keep repeating "Hezbollah", but the target of the attack appears to have been the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon.
Much like the US bombing of an Iraqi airfield to kill the Iranian diplomatic delegation to Baghdad, this appears to be an entirely illegal and recklessly deployed assassination plot aimed at one guy. The thousands of injuries and the eight dead (at least two being children under the age of 11) are just collateral damage the IDF has once again blanket-tagged as "Evil Muslim Militants".
That article doesn't really indicate that one person was the target, nor does making 3000 pagers or whatever they were into bombs. I find it more likely that the Iranian delegation representative was just meeting with Hezbollah at the time or received one of their pagers to stay in communication. Nothing in the articles you link suggests this was done just to target them, just that they were affected.
So...
They're just casually admitting to another war crime?
Against someone I don't even think they're officially at war against?
When there are zero consequences for war crimes, the "rules based" law and order we virtue signal is completely meaningless.
Who is a terrorist state exactly?
Both?
I mean I'm no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain't exactly the Red Cross.
with Israel clearly having the greater outreach, destructive power and perhaps even less self regulation than Hezbollah as it seems.
It also isn't a state.
Both but one is supported by the USA so they get unlimited free passes
State sponsored terrorism.
Not even "sponsored", just state terrorism.
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