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Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers (www.aljazeera.com)
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The problem with explosions is that they injure everyone nearby, not just the person with the explosion in their pocket.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can look up the videos. People standing three feet away are fine while the person with the pager is down for the count. Innocents are always harmed in war, but this was about as precise and just a strike as humanly possible.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I'm sure that'll make that girl's friends and remaining family feel much better.

    The explosions had to happen at the same time to be effective, and so people who were being attacked were in a variety of places. Detonating explosives in an uncontrolled variety of public places is not precise.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Agree, but the explosive inside is very low, so the damage is mostly going to be inflicted on the person who this pager belonged to. From the initial reports all the casualties were linked to Hezbollah and even the girl was a daughter of a member of Hezbollah.

    Me personally, I don't defend the actions of Israel, but still think it is a lot more targeted than dropping 2000lbs. bombs over densely populated areas. Another question is of course if this will achieve anything other than strengthening the resolve of those people.

    Unfortunately, nowadays to win a war, you simply need to be the richer and more advanced nation, and Israel has the upper hand here.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That "even the girl was a daughter of a member of Hezbollah" part got me very angry.

    Kids don't deserve to get blown up, even if their parents are mass murderers.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I have never said that. What Israel is doing geopolitically is a grave mistake and would ultimately give birth to a lot more terrorists that they will kill ultimately and won't lead to any long lasting peaceful solution in the region. And all this is happening with the silent endorsement of the West, which is even more disturbing.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most would blame the mass murdering parent for endangering the child.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In this instance I'll blame whoever planted a couple of thousand explosives on people all over the place and detonated them simultaneously without caring who was nearby.

    Imagine one of them was on a plane carrying your mother, or one was dropping off their kid at the school your kid goes to, or at the supermarket with you behind them in line.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No one planted explosives all over the place in this scenario. We have videos of what happened, people standing nearby weren't harmed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where were the explosives then? One central place?

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