Comment by megous

Comment by megous 3 days ago

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If it's basically a remotely controlled IED via a public communication network, then there's nothing technically interesting about that, really.

But the aspect of some supposedly civilized state staging a mass terror attack via a remotely controlled IEDs, putting suddenly thousands of people, many of them civilians (yes, Hezballah are also civilians, because they're a major political party in Lebanon) into hospital, killing ~10, critically infuring ~200, is way more interesting.

You can generate many questions about that aspect. Like the whole why on both strategic and tactical levels? How does this fit with the international law? Why are people kinda chill about this?

Re the response below: No proof of specific targeting of combatants, yet. No proof of any attempt to not affect bystanders, etc. Yet, there are videos of bombs exploding while people are shopping with children around, etc. Pretty much indiscriminate.

Definitely not battery burnings: https://t.me/hamza20300/293409 these are the scale/type of injuries that this caused. (Two children there just in this single scene in one hospital, so beware.)

baltimore 3 days ago

No, a mass terror attack would indiscriminately target victims. This is almost entirely opposite -- an organization widely recognized as a terrorist group (1) is narrowly targeted.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...

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  • ithkuil 3 days ago

    Also because one would have to weigh the alternative.

    Imagine Israel declared an old fashioned war against Lebanon as response to the missile strikes originated from its territory.

    I think the number of civilian casualties of a conventional "legal" war would be much much higher than the collateral damage of this operation.

    Now, does that make it "right"? To me war is horror and is to avoid at all cost. Is a smaller horror a cost one's willing to pay to avoid a bigger horror? Hard to say. But I think it's still important to at least try to see things in a broader context otherwise we may never understand why people on the ground make the choices they do.

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  • bjourne 3 days ago

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wing-_-nuts 3 days ago

>Hezballah are also civilians, because they're a major political party in Lebanon

That's an interesting take. Are you saying hamas are also civilians because they're the major political party in gaza?

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  • ChocolateGod 3 days ago

    I would argue that Hamas has gone from being an organised terrorist group to being an idea.

    Gaza has a very young population growing up with the current war, some (not all) will be radicalized by what they experienced growing up.

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  • solarpunk 3 days ago

    hamas is the governing body of gaza, so any government workers would technically be hamas.

    don't confuse post office workers for military personnel just cuz they work for the government.

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