I very much doubt that he would have. I was just pointing out that that this did happen (both here and the USA). People dream up ever more ingenious methods of killing or subjugating one another, it's a shame that these energies can't be put to better use.
A wholesale change of leaders in Israel, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas etc. is inevitable. Nobody lives for ever. What is required is for the new leadership to set different objectives or to adopt a different approach to achieving their objectives.
There are many reasons why my left eyebrow raised itself several times reading that.
Israel has been attacked by Egypt more than once but now there is peace between them, as there is with Jordan. It is possible.
im comparing the way russia has blanket bombed huge swathes of Ukraine, Israel has done the same to Gaza. Im not comparing Hezbolla to Ukraine, Im comparing the similarities with Israeli and Russian warfare-one of whom has been widely condemed for its methods, the other has not
I was going to say this. It highlights what constitutes a terrorist is subjective, depends on someone’s perspective and motivation.
I admire your optimism & hope you're right
Russia's objective is to destroy the Ukrainian state. Hezbolloh's objective is to destroy the Israeli state. The difference is only how they are executing their plans. So, would it be acceptable for Ukraine to do what Israel has done?
I understand the various conflicts are related but this is a thread about the recent attacks on Hezbollah, a terrorist entity. Whatever one thinks of Israel and its warfare tactics, an analogy which compares Russia theoretically blowing up pagers of Ukrainians (not legitimate military targets) with Israel blowing up pagers of Hezbollah (a terrorist entity) doesn’t add up.
Your point is spot on.
The objective of the IRA and Sin Fein was to create a united Irish State. The objective of the Tamil Tigers was to create an independent Tamil State. Neither of those terrorist organisations are still operating militarily but neither has achieved their original objective.
Russia (Putin) wants to reinstate the old USSR, so won’t stop at Ukraine.
Yep.
Everybody with good points, nobody getting it completely right.
There isn't much that they don't know... they of course miss the odd operational detail like we saw last year, but Mossad and the other very efficient Israeli agencies are generally on top of most major Islamist organisations.
Discussion points I am hearing through various people closer to it than most of us.... Iran buys pagers en masse from a source, eventually the supplier, Taiwan in this case, ships and this gets intercepted by Israel, 'adjusted' for operational use, continued on its way and distributed for Hezbollah use,... about to get outed, boom... such is the world we live in.
Good point