Everyone is sure it was Israel that exploded Hezbollah’s pagers.
An old lesson is proved again: Brain beats brawn.
From the linked article:
Three thousand Hezbollah beepers exploded this week in Lebanon.
And Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon lost an eye in the attack.
Israel has not confirmed it carried out the attacks, nor is it likely they will ever lay claim to them.
Defense One reports that Hezbollah had a deal with a Taiwan company, Gold Apollo, to supply the pagers. They pointed the finger of blame at a Hungarian firm called BAC Consulting KFT. This appears to be a shell company run by friendly or Israeli intelligence. Indeed, multiple Israeli cutouts may have been involved in the manufacturing and sales of the devices.
Israel did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse. That’s right. The shell company sold the rigged pagers manufactured by the good guys.
And this is the best part of the story—if you hate Islamo-Nazi terrorists, anyway—Hezbollah paid for its own rigged and exploding pagers.
Israel didn’t just tamper with the pagers, they manufactured them and used a shell company to sell them to Hezbollah. It’s unclear how much Hezbollah paid for their own humiliation, but they certainly got a lot of bang for their buck.
In 2020 Israel assassinated Iran’s top nuclear scientist using an A.I.-assisted robot controlled remotely via satellite. Like Afghanistan terror groups did after they realized U.S. drones could track their phones, Hezbollah has gone low-tech, hence the pagers, walkie-talkies, and in-person meetings.
According to a leaked document from Hezbollah intelligence, 879 died in pager explosions, of which 291were senior commanders, 509 were blinded, and 1735 “injured in their reproductive organs”, of which 906 suffered “total damage” and 613 “permanent function damage”.
I guess some of the guys who lived won’t have the balls to reproduce and taint humanity’s gene pool anymore.
And Israel literally made them pay for their own deaths.