@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • edit-25 months agoIsrael detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attackwww.axios.commessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up1427file-text
arrow-up1427external-linkIsrael detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attackwww.axios.com@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • edit-25 months agomessage-square192fedilinkfile-text
Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead. The sound of many of them exploding Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead. Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead. Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead. Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish41•5 months agoIt’s a good point But the accusation isn’t flippant. That’s exactly what this is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months agoIf the beepers and radios were targeted at Hezbollah militia members, then it isn’t terrorism. If the equipment was sold in regular retail channels meant for the general Lebanese population, then it is terrorism. We don’t know enough to make that call 100%, but early analysis is strongly suggesting it was targeted. To call it terrorism at this point is flippant and unsupported, and draws attention away from and fails to highlight their larger crime of genocide.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•5 months agoIt is absolutely terrorism. When the pagers went off most of the people hit by them were in plain clothes, including a child, people were just seeing other randomly exploding and are adding strain to hospitals. This is a terrorist attack.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoYes, and when we bombed Germany in WW2 we killed hundreds of children. War is bad. Terrorism is bad. But they are different things.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoGenocide =/= war. Stop trying to justify genocidal terrorism on the basis of some imaginary “war”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoThere is a difference between the actions in Gaza and the actions in Lebanon.
It’s a good point
But the accusation isn’t flippant. That’s exactly what this is.
If the beepers and radios were targeted at Hezbollah militia members, then it isn’t terrorism.
If the equipment was sold in regular retail channels meant for the general Lebanese population, then it is terrorism.
We don’t know enough to make that call 100%, but early analysis is strongly suggesting it was targeted.
To call it terrorism at this point is flippant and unsupported, and draws attention away from and fails to highlight their larger crime of genocide.
It is absolutely terrorism. When the pagers went off most of the people hit by them were in plain clothes, including a child, people were just seeing other randomly exploding and are adding strain to hospitals. This is a terrorist attack.
Yes, and when we bombed Germany in WW2 we killed hundreds of children. War is bad. Terrorism is bad. But they are different things.
Genocide =/= war. Stop trying to justify genocidal terrorism on the basis of some imaginary “war”.
There is a difference between the actions in Gaza and the actions in Lebanon.