At no point have I commented on whether it's ok or not. Are collateral civilian deaths ever OK in a military operation? I'm sure that can be debated for ever with many examples from history. The point I'm making is that Mossad did not target civilians and did not make an untargetted attack. They went after Hezbollah operational targets.
This thread is about the pager attack.
Without wishing to divert the thread but in direct response to your post, so what is your view of the Russia-Ukraine conflict?
We don't 'know for certain'.
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The two are related, the whole thing is related if you can't see that, I am sorry.
oh please. Hezbollah is in no position to conduct a war of annihilation. they are terrorists who greatly impact on the peaceful living of those in northen Israel. taking out their leaders in assassinations is fair game. shooting soliders on the battlefield, standard warfare. deliberatly injuring soliders, posing no immediate threat, in public spaces is just nasty.
The celebrated Dambusters raids (Operation Chastise) killed an estimated 1,600 civilians, mostly Allied prisoners of war.
But what is acceptable for jews evidently is indiscriminately bomb civilians, hospitals and schools killing 43000. 43000 let that sink in....
It's a very complex, awful situation that has been going on for close to 80 years with 2 full-blown wars and continual border incidents. Impossible, imo, to say with any degree of conviction whether the Israeli response is acceptable or not without knowing how the conflict will evolve. If you think that's a cop out then so be it.
Because we have too many sociopaths in our midsts. Pretty easy to spot who would have been the concentration camp guards if they were born in the time and place
Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation None of their attacks are acceptable.
Zelenskyy is the first Jewish president of Ukraine; with Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister, Ukraine became the first country other than Israel to simultaneously have a Jewish head of state and head of government.
I didn't mention Hezbollah, I just wanted you to answer if you think it would be an acceptable tactic of war to be used against IDF in Tel Aviv?
The objective of Hezbollah and Hamas is to destroy the State of Isreal though, isn't it? They are supported by Iran and Syria who also have that stated objective. Iranian leaders have repeated it several times.
It depends on the circumstances and on who the war is between. If it's a hypothetical against an unknown enemy it's impossible to answer.
Side point but important. Under international law the occupied (Palestinians) have a right to resist their occupiers and that includes "armed struggle" (UN resolution 37/43)
My bolding.
Sorry, not following your point. I was saying that it doesn't matter whether we think that the collateral deaths associated with the pager bombs means that this act is not as bad as 9/11 or is just as bad (in a game of terror top trumps). I think it means 'not as bad' but I don't think that what I think will affect anything going forward, for the reasons explained.
I do think it is a cop out.