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Brian | September 29, 2024 at 11:28 am
[QUOTE] Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity to neutralize Hezbollah in the north. It’s unfortunate how we got here but maybe there can be a silver lining in the end. [/QUOTE]
Yes, I view the two, Hamas and Hezbollah, as the Iranian equivalent of a “fleet in being.”
A “fleet in being” is a naval force that extends a controlling influence without ever leaving port. Were the fleet to leave port and face the enemy, it might lose in battle and no longer influence the enemy’s actions, but while it remains safely in port, the enemy is forced to continually deploy forces to guard against it.” (Wikipedia)
Iran has lost the influence of it’s “fleet in being” as a force that could deter Israel.
So Iran is now isolated – naked as a Jaybird, one might say, to he whims or plans of Israel.
Brian in reply to Brian. | September 29, 2024 at 11:51 am
I might also suggest that under the Biden/Harris administration, the US removed sanctions from Iran and paid several billion $$ to them in ransom for a few Iranian/US hostages, and has consistently urged Israel to restrain itself and substitute negotiations and a ceasefire for definitive kinetic military operations.
If that wasn’t enough (!) to convince Israel that the US was an Iranian asset, Kamala’s snubbing of Netanyahu when he was in the US in favor of her addressing as sorority was proof beyond doubt that the US was not going to protect Israel from Iran.
So Israel (wisely) decided to abandon the US strategy of urging caution and negotiations rather than military operations.
And thus, behind the degradation of Hamas and now Hezbollah, did the final check on Israel’s restraint – US influence on Israel – collapse.
“And now, over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years.” //
Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner, had some wise words yesterday about Israel.
Israel has to finish the job. Now. She cannot stop.
People have responded, “I don’t agree with you politically at all, but this is true!”
Kushner wrote:
September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.
I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible.
This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent. //
But today, with the confirmed killing of Nasrallah and at least 16 top commanders eliminated in just nine days, was the first day I started thinking about a Middle East without Iran’s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel. So many more positive outcomes are possible.
A White House official told CNN that the administration believes Iran will soon attack Israel with ballistic missiles.
Another official, don’t know if it’s the same one, told Fox News, “We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran.”
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said “that as of now, no aerial threats have been launched at Israel from Iran.”
Contrary to what any pundits or politicians might tell you, Israel did not start this war with Hezbollah, the Iranian-funded terror proxy that controls Lebanon.
On Oct. 8, 2023, while Israel was trying to count the dead, the kidnapped, and the brutalized, and was still battling the Hamas terrorists that invaded the country the day prior, Hezbollah opened a “second front” against Israel to help Hamas and hasn’t stopped firing rockets since. For 10 months, over 60,000 civilians have been forced to flee from their homes in the North and live in hotels in central Israel, displaced and unfortunate casualties, as Israel worked to crush Hamas in Gaza. //
In the middle of a slow Tuesday, just weeks after Israel thwarted a massive and deadly rocket attack minutes before it was set to happen, thousands of beepers began blowing up throughout Lebanon. Incredibly, Israel appears to have learned of Hezbollah’s attempts to use low-tech forms of contact and entered the supply chain that the terror organization used to obtain its illicit communication devices. Then they waited for Hezbollah to distribute the pagers to the terrorists and incapacitated their ability to harm Israel. The next day, they repeated the operation, this time with walkie-talkies. And when the leadership of Hezbollah met days later to discuss their plans to invade Northern Israel, the IDF struck and eliminated essentially all of the terror organization’s leaders, evil people who were responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds of Americans. In the days since, Israel has struck thousands of military targets and dealt a significant blow to Hezbollah’s ability to terrorize the world.
But Israel wasn’t finished. On Friday, minutes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finished addressing the United Nations General Assembly — to a hall voluntarily emptied of the world’s worst actors, who had wandered out of the room in a show of support for Hamas and Hezbollah — Israel destroyed the headquarters of Hezbollah, in Beirut. The operation successfully eliminated terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, the mastermind and architect of the murder of thousands of innocent Jews, Christians, and Muslims in countries around the world. //
This is not a war between Israel and the Lebanese people. Rather, it is a war between Israel and a heavily armed terrorist group that has hijacked Lebanon and is acting on orders from a different authority: the mullahs sitting pensively in Tehran.
In the pursuit of their master’s goals to destroy Israel and ultimately the United States, Hezbollah has provoked and attacked Israel for months, which stoically did not respond. Israel warned dozens of times for Hezbollah to stop and retreat to the Litani River in accordance with the United Nations resolution agreed to in 2006, which would allow the citizens of Northern Israel to return home.
Instead, Hezbollah decided to destroy Lebanon. They planted weaponry inside population centers, determined to exploit the Lebanese people as human shields, and escalated tensions into a full-blown war with Israel that the people of Lebanon overwhelmingly rejected. Their constant and deadly indiscriminate attacks have killed and injured dozens, most tragically seen by the massacre of 12 Druze children playing soccer in Majdal Shams in July.
Israel’s relative restraint in the face of Hezbollah’s ongoing aggression can largely be attributed to the miraculous protective capabilities of the Iron Dome. This advanced defense system, while reducing the immediate human toll of rocket attacks, has inadvertently created a perception internationally that Israel can absorb such violence indefinitely. The world, witnessing Israel’s ability to intercept most incoming threats, has grown accustomed to this scenario, often ignoring the deeper implications of allowing sustained aggression to persist unchallenged. This dynamic has led to a dangerous normalization of terrorism, where Israel is expected to continually endure hostilities without any response, which has only emboldened its many adversaries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, much maligned on the international stage as dangerous extremists, have displayed a consistent and conciliatory tone in the face of Hezbollah’s war of attrition. For a year now, they have repeatedly attempted to tone down the conflict, even as Hezbollah leadership promised to continue to escalate and broaden the conflict.
Fateh Sherif was, supposedly, an educator — the principal of Deir Yassin Secondary School. He was also an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA.) Sherif also moonlighted as a Hamas leader, responsible for coordinating Hamas actions with Hezbollah, including recruiting and logistics operations.
Now he's been shuffled off the mortal coil by the Israeli Air Force after an air strike eliminated him, and the UNRWA is finally admitting he was one of theirs.
Israel has taken the gloves off and sent in the exterminators, and the rats are running for cover. One of the rats is Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has reportedly been moved to a "secure location" within Iran:
The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed the death of Lebanese Hezbollah leader and all-around terrorist Hassan Nasrallah Saturday following a massive Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah command bunker Friday. //
Nasrallah died as he lived, cowering behind a shield of women and children.
If you were expecting outrage in the region, you need to think again.
Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas
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Syrians are handing out sweets and celebrating the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (his death is not officially confirmed)
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4:27 PM · Sep 27, 2024 //
These people who suffered from Hezbollah's thuggishness and the perpetual war it created are not sad to see Nasrallah and his ilk destroyed.
It is too early to draw definitive lessons from Israel's post-October 7th campaign against institutional terrorism in the Middle East, but I think there are reasons to be hopeful.
When the much-maligned Jared Kushner undertook his mission to rearrange the strategic map of the Middle East, he intuited that attempting to negotiate with the "Palestinian" leadership was a dead end for the simple reason that those people knew the only way they could stay in power was by promoting victimhood and refusing to negotiate. When the farcical "two state solution" was abandoned, Israel was able to achieve normalized, or at least non-hostile relations with historic foes such as Saudi Arabia. //
If that strategic void is filled by anyone other than Iran's stooges, then the region's security structure could be reordered. I would argue the region is tired of fighting and would really like to do something else, and absent the Iranian-grafted cancer that is Hezbollah, change is possible.
Just two final points. First, Netanyahu's speech at the UN spelled out the issue in no uncertain terms. The region can stagger on in a state of poverty, terrorism, and warfare, or it can pull the plug on the old way of doing business and work together to lift up all nations in the region.
This is not hyperbole; this is a crossroads.
Second, the idea that warfare is an exercise in proportionality has been permanently discredited. I'm a Catholic, and before that, I was an ardent student of military history. I understand "Just War" theory, and I also understand why it is wrong. A proportionate response is guaranteed to prolong conflicts and increase casualties on both sides. As a Southerner, I think the South was much better off for Sherman's March to the Sea and Phil Sheridan's rampage up the Shenandoah Valley than it would have been if the war had extended for another two or three years as the Army of the Potomac ground its way through Virginia and North Carolina. Proportionality is a sop to the conscience; it is nothing more than virtue signaling. Israel's response to the October 7 Massacre is showing the very real possibility of ending the so-called "cycle of violence." //
Which brings me to my last point. Overwhelming violence works. While we may all prefer negotiations to violence, there are times when there is nothing to talk about. Slaughtering 1,200 Israelis brings about such a time. A lot of my friends during the early days of the Iraq War were fond of saying, "you can't kill your way out of a problem." That is false. There may be reasons you don't want to do that, or you may suffer from a lack of ambition or motivation, but to say you can't kill enough people to make the problem go away is fatuous nonsense.
Friday's attack occurred as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations - with Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati in the audience.
Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ @Ostrov_A
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Regardless whether Nasrallah is dead, what a glorious fu*k you that was by the tiny Jewish state to the rest of the world!
They all wanted us to stop, to appease these jihadi bastards. But Netanyahu went to UN, slammed that cesspool, then got off podium & calmly gave the order.… Show more
2:56 PM · Sep 27, 2024
In an impassioned speech before the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spelled out to the world that Israel is done with international efforts to placate or excuse Hamas and Hezbollah. He declared there would be no peace until the terrorist organizations dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the eradication of Israel are themselves eradicated.
Netanyahu started his speech by stating he originally had zero interest in attending the UN meeting this year, but felt compelled to do so in order to combat the lies of those claiming Israel was unjustifiably aggressive in combating terror. //
Netanyahu stated to those gathered that Iran was and is a threat to not only Israel but the civilized world as a whole.
And that is the choice we face today: the curse of Iran’s unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew. In the days that followed that speech, the blessing I spoke of came into sharper focus.
Netanyahu reminded the UN that before the Hamas-committed obscene atrocities of October 7, 2023, the Middle East was close to enjoying genuine peace as it has ever been since Israel’s formation in 1948. //
I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran: If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place—there is no place in Iran—that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East. //
This is the map I presented here last year. It’s a map of a blessing.
It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, and fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of 2 billion people.
He next displayed a map of the present reality.It’s a map of a curse. It’s a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
It cuts off trade, it destroys nations from within, and inflicts misery on millions. On the one hand, a bright blessing—a future of hope. On the other hand, a dark future of despair. And if you think this dark map is only a curse for Israel, then you should think again.
Because Iran’s aggression, if it’s not checked, will endanger every single country in the Middle East, and many, many countries in the rest of the world, because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East.
That’s why it funds terror networks on five continents. That’s why it builds ballistic missiles for nuclear warheads to threaten the entire world. For too long, the world has appeased Iran. It turned a blind eye to its internal repression. It turned a blind eye to its external aggression. Well, that appeasement must end. And that appeasement must end now. //
And now I have a question, and I pose that question to you: What choice will you make? Will your nation stand with Israel? Will you stand with democracy and peace? Or will you stand with Iran, a brutal dictatorship that subjugates its own people and exports terrorism across the globe //
I have a message for you: Israel will win this battle. We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice.
After generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorselessly butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense, we now have a state. We now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves.
As the book of Samuel says in the Bible:
“נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר”
“The eternity of Israel will not falter”.
In the Jewish people’s epic journey from antiquity, in our odyssey through the tempest and upheavals of modern times, that ancient promise has always been kept and it will hold true for all time.
To borrow a great poet’s phrase: Israel will not go gently into that good night. We will never need to rage against the dying of the light because the torch of Israel will forever shine bright.
To the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel, I say: Be strong and of good courage.
“חִזְק֣וּ וְאִמְצ֔וּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֥וּ וְאַל־תַּעַרְצ֖וּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ה’ אֱלֹקיךָ ה֚וּא הַהֹלֵ֣ךְ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹ֥א יַרְפְּךָ֖ וְלֹ֥א יַעַזְבֶֽךּ”
עם ישראל חי
The people of Israel live now, tomorrow, forever”.
Israel reportedly intercepted a missile launched at Tel Aviv by Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah early on Wednesday morning.
This marks a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which intensified when Israel launched a preemptive strike on the Lebanon-based terrorist group to stop a planned October 7-style attack. //
The terrorist group claims its attack was directed at the Mossad, claiming retaliation for the assassinations of several key Hezbollah leaders. //
Laocoön of Troy
9 hours ago
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
RAF Air Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris (Jun 1942)
Panetta was and has always been a political hack. A “yes man” who ended up heading the CIA, not because of years of experience at Langley or bringing some unique skills to the Agency, Panetta was appointed to head the CIA because of politics. Barack Obama put him in that position because he helped Democrats get elected, and he was the chief of staff for Clinton.
In 2011, after the Bin Laden raid, Panetta reveled in the success of the mission. Panetta addressed a throng of people at a CIA Headquarters event – which was to honor the people connected to the raid. At that event, Panetta disclosed classified information — in fact, "Secret" and "Top Secret" information regarding the personnel who found Bin Laden and who conducted it. He fingered the SEAL team (DevGru) and fingered the ground commander. Panetta also revealed more Top Secret information during the speech that was attended by 1,300, many of whom had NO clearance at all. //
In October 2020, Panetta and a group of 50 other former senior intelligence officials signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop controversy had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation" because it contained potentially damaging information to the Biden campaign.
We knew then — and even the New York Times has admitted now — that Hunter's laptop being "Russian disinfo" was utter nonsense propagated by unserious political hacks, not the least of whom was Leon Panetta. //
Mark A
17 hours ago
He can call it whatever he wants. I call it a supremely superb tactical move in a war that Israel didn’t create.
NavyVet Mark A
17 hours ago
So what if it was terrorism? It did more than scare the pants off the terrorists.
Since when is fighting fire with fire a bad thing? What goes around, comes around.
It seems to me it was effective at taking out bad guys with little or no collateral damage.
Mildred's Oldest Son
3 hours ago
Of course he's incommunicado, he's probably afraid to turn on a table lamp, much less use any electronic devices. Tin cans and string have a limited range.
anon-eoij Mildred's Oldest Son
39 minutes ago
No more free hotel ball point pens… //
Noggindog
an hour ago
Oh, they shouldn't be talking about this! They should have just generated some deep-fakes of Sinwar saying and doing things Israeli's would like to see, things that discredit HAMAS. If he is still alive, he would have to surface! (giving Israel another shot at him!) And if he's dead, Israel could keep generating deep-fakes for quite a while!
Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal
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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.
11:19 AM · Sep 20, 2024 //
Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid
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🚨 Breaking: According to a leaked document from Hezbollah intelligence, 879 died in pager explosions, out of which 291 senior commanders. 509 were blinded, and 1735 “injured in their reproductive organs”, out of which 906 “total damage” and 613 “permanent function damage” 👇
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3:01 AM · Sep 20, 2024 //
I guarantee you this episode will be in every spy thriller novel for 20 years forever.
Reports have since emerged that Hezbollah was planning an "October 7-like" attack on Israel codenamed "Conquer the Galilee." October 7, 2023, was, of course, the day that Hamas terrorists from Gaza conducted a merciless assault on Israel, resulting in the barbarous murders of thousands of Israelis and the kidnappings of hundreds more — many of whom are still being held hostage nearly a year later.
Following the latest action by Israel, the IDF revealed what they believe Hezbollah was planning:
'Hezbollah intended to infiltrate Israeli communities and kidnap and murder innocent civilians in a similar manner to the October 7 Massacre,' the IDF said.
'The IDF will continue to remove the threat of Hezbollah's capabilities and will continue to operate in all arenas to protect Israeli civilians.' //
Alpinealan
8 hours ago edited
If the Israelis "crossed all lines", why is the Iranian Embassy in Beirut still standing??
I applaud what the Israelis are now doing. With the feckless BribeMe Administration rendered even more impotent now that it is lame duck, it is a good time for settling scores.
However, the Israelis really need to come to terms with human nature and reality. The death penalty for heinous murderers such as Yahwa Sinwar would have prevented him being used as a pawn in ridiculous "hostage negotiations" trading a single soldier for approximately two infantry battalions of hardened criminals who certainly have added themselves to Hamas' order of battle. How many IDF soldiers have died in the past year because the feckless Israeli state put the life of that one hostage above that of soldiers who have to confront them once again on the battlefield? While loudmouthed hostage families pressure Bibi into committing national suicide to save their hostage son (who ended up with a bullet to the back of his head regardless...), Israelis soldiers are bleeding and dying fighting this criminal enterprise. Being serious about the death penalty...broadly supported in the Hebrew scriptures...would do much to staunch the dumbassery that is going on with hostages.
And if every citizen has mandatory military service, how the hell did the citizens face the Oct. 7th terrorists unarmed...discovering that when seconds count, the IDF is hours away? It isn't like citizens don't know how to safely handle weapons, is it? How incredibly stupid.
Liberal lunacy always gets mugged by reality. But then again, how many American Jews will vote for the Laughingstock?
Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom
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40 years ago to the day, Ibrahim Aqil helped direct a Hezbollah suicide bombing that targeted the American embassy in Beirut.
Today, Israel eliminated him with a surgical airstrike in Beirut.
Justice is served.
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10:43 AM · Sep 20, 2024
anon-62kn
8 hours ago
Honestly, I would rather there not be an inside story of how Israel pulled this off. Yes it was stunning and brilliant, but better to have remained mysterious. But of course, the NYT knows this hence the story.
UpChuck.Liberals anon-62kn
5 hours ago
It's to so called 'intelligence' idiots that had to open their mouths, OR it's part of the plan to make the terrorist even more paranoid and of course their masters in Iran. //
Texas Zombie
9 hours ago
It’s disgusting that all these anonymous sources are leaking sensitive information. Israel would be wise to not share anything sensitive with US intelligence officials who obviously can’t be trusted to keep their mouths shut.
DonH-Texas Texas Zombie
9 hours ago
I think it's all part of the plan. The psychological impact of this information "leak" on every terrorist group in the middle east is going to be huge and long-lasting. Fear and paranoia are potent weapons. //
stickdude90 Texas Zombie
8 hours ago
Until Mossad confirms it (and they won't), this could just be another cover story designed to make Hezbollah even more paranoid.
“We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” IDF Chief of Staff Halevi warns Hezbollah. //
While Lebanon reported only 32 deaths from two days of pager and walkie-talkie explosions, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group was hiding the actual death toll, media reports suggest.
Consecutive waves of exploding devices have incurred heavy losses on Hezbollah’s leadership and terrorist fighting forces. The command structure of Hezbollah’s elite terrorist Radwan force has been ‘decimated’ by the well-coordinate strike, Israeli sources confirm.
Officially, around 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists were wounded in Tuesday’s pager explosions. The walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday reportedly injured 450 terror operatives. The actual figures are much higher, reports suggest.
“According to Israeli reports, the pager attack alone would have caused “dozens of deaths, if not more” among Hezbollah members,” Israel’s i24NEWS TV reported. “Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force is reported to have suffered significant losses, losing “a large part of its command structure” that was either killed or maimed.”
The coordinated strike on Hezbollah is perhaps the most precise counter-terrorist operation in military history. The Israeli government and armed forces did not comment on the incident.
The Israeli news website YNET reported the actual damage caused by the apparent anti-terror strike:
According to the official updates from Lebanon, 12 people were killed when thousands of pagers exploded on Tuesday and 20 in the walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday, but in Israel officials believe that the announced dead and injured from the pager explosions is significantly lower than reality. It is estimated that there are many dozens of dead, if not more.
Significant damage was inflicted on Hezbollah’s special operation forces unit Radwan force, which lost large parts of its command structure. At least 450 were injured in the explosion of the hand-held walkie-talkie radios throughout Lebanon, and these join the more than 3,000 Hezbollah operatives who were injured by the pager blasts. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday, in his first public remarks since the series of explosions in Lebanon.
The Iran-backed terrorist group is in disarray following the strike. Twice bitten, the Hezbollah terrorists were now scared of touching electronic devices and electric switches, social media posts show.
The Lebanese terrorist group apparently paid an Israeli shell company to acquire explosive-laden communication devices.
Israel did not intercept the Hezbollah shipment or tamper with the devices but exclusively manufactured them after securing an order from the terrorist group. “The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. //
By all appearances, B.A.C. Consulting was a Hungary-based company that was under contract to produce the devices on behalf of a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo. In fact, it was part of an Israeli front, according to three intelligence officers briefed on the operation. They said at least two other shell companies were created as well to mask the real identities of the people creating the pagers: Israeli intelligence officers. //
B.A.C. did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers. But the only client that really mattered was Hezbollah, and its pagers were far from ordinary. Produced separately, they contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN, according to the three intelligence officers.//
“We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” Lt. Gen. Halevi assured Wednesday. “Every time we work on a certain stage, the next two stages are already ready to advance. At each stage, the price for Hezbollah must be high,” he warned.
It's important to note that while this was an operation intended to kill or injure some Hezbollah operatives, it also yielded fringe benefits. First, it's interesting that Iran's ambassador to Lebanon had one of these pagers. That (as if we didn't already know it) nails down the fact that Hezbollah is a proxy for Iran — there's no other reason for the Iranian ambassador to have one of these devices. Second, it was a very effective psychological operation; as noted above, Hezbollah goblins now no longer trust their technology.
All in all, a successful operation.
The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post.
About 2,800 people were injured and nine others — including a child — were killed Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria — with the vast majority of victims appearing to be military-age men. //
An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.
“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.
A second wave of blasts rocked Hezbollah on Wednesday as thousands of radios and other devices used by the terror group were detonated across Lebanon, security sources and witnesses said. //
The AR-924 pagers that were detonated on Tuesday were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah five months ago and allegedly manufactured in Budapest, according to a statement released by Gold Apollo — a Taiwanese firm that authorized the use of its brand on the pagers. //
Hungarian officials however, deny the allegations, saying it has no such manufacturing facility in the country.
“Authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said in a statement.