[sir0010010]

Why would doctors have Hezbollah pagers or otherwise be involved with Hezbollah?

Also, what other means of attack would have a better combatant/civilian casualty ratio than this? Do you think that dropping bombs or sending in ground forces with M16s would have hit a lower percentage of civilians?

[mirzap]

Hezbollah is a legitimate political party in Lebanon, like it or not. This means that they have a lot of civilians involved in running a country. Just imagine Russia targeting pro-fascist AfD in Germany and justifying that by "fighting against fascism in Europe." There's 0 doubt everyone would see that as a state-sponsored terror attack and an attack on a German state - an act of war.

[Gud]

If AfD were firing rockets into Russia, Russia would have every right to retaliate.

[Log_out_]

Why would russia attack its puppets ?

[raxxorraxor]

Didn't you forgot the part where the AfD would fire thousands of rockets into Russia just this year?

Hezbollah formed a party later for political reasons. It exists to attack Israel and Israel is more than allowed to defend itself and that includes such offensives.

Are you actually serious with this comparison? Because frankly, this is beyond uninformed.

[imtringued]

There is no such thing as a Hezbollah pager. They are gold Apollo pagers. It is completely normal for doctors to have pagers.

[gregw2]

i thought Hezbollah had their own broadcast pager network for their pagers for security reasons. a trigger sent out on that frequency would only affect Hezbollah, no?

[a_dabbler]

We don't know how exactly how the trigger mechanism worked. It was an import of pager batteries that were intercepted and replaced, it's plausible that someone else using a pager in the country would be affected if they had received a pager battery from the same batch