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After the pager attacks against Hezbollah, former Kuwaiti information minister Sami Al-Nesf wrote of the conflict’s history before the most recent and unprecedented cyber event in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Nahar, “النهار” , (The Day). He suggested Israel defeated seven Israeli armies in the 1967 Six-Day War “because it had invested a great deal of effort in scientific and technological development, thus allowing the Jewish state to extend the range of its aircraft. “Israel increased the effectiveness of their tanks and cannons and properly defined the correct tire pressure for their vehicles and the amount of water required for a soldier in a war in summer in the desert, while our troops died of thirst in the Sinai Desert than were killed by gunfire.” He also noted that Israel’s advanced technology detected and recorded a secret conversation in 1967 between then-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan’s King Hussein.
In his column for the London-based Saudi-daily Al-Sharq Al-Aswat, Arabic: الشرق الأوسط, The Middle East, Lebanese journalist Samir Attallah agreed with Al-Nesf’s statements: “From its first moments, Israel has understood that the only solution for such a small country in a sea of Arabs is technological supremacy and that lagging scientifically would mean its death. Israel would appeal to science, while we would appeal to the East (Russia, China, N.Korea). Israel would develop weapons while we gave weapons poetic names like ‘Al-Zhafar (The Victor) and “Al-Quher (The Victor).”
Attallah also commented on the pager attacks in Lebanon, in which Israel has not officially claimed responsibility: “Taiwan manufactures pagers, and Israel injects them with a few milligrams of explosives, and then it does it again, and it can do this yet again in the future, in a way that will be much more lethal and criminal. Meanwhile, Houthi missiles are landing in an open field in Tel Aviv. How did that missile find an open field in a crowded city like Tel Aviv? This is the skill of discovering what is hidden.”
Washington, DC-based Palestinian journalist Osama Abu-Irshaid chronicles that Israel cannot be defeated but only temporarily broken because of its overwhelming military and technological superiority: “Israel’s technological advancements and its military supremacy cannot be disputed by Iran or Hezbollah, Hamas or Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or even by an Arab or non-Arab country in the region.
“Israel embodies the essence of American and European qualitative supremacy in its weapons systems, technological capabilities, intelligence capabilities, and capabilities in the spheres of cyber and espionage…only an idiot or an unrealistic person could disagree.” However, Abu-Irshaid also imagined that the devious Israelis had infiltrated the countries designing the pages, and that’s how they booby-trapped the Hezbollah communications networks.
Saudi journalist Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, a former CEO of Al-Arabiya TV, contributed two articles regarding the pager attacks, one titled Israel’s Technological Supremacy Since 1967. In his commentary, he states that “Half a century ago (then-Egyptian president Gamel) Abdel Nasser would complain about Israel’s supremacy, and today this distance has doubled, making the idea of (the Arabs) changing the situation through armed conflict almost impossible, if not naive.”
Al-Rashad also pointed out that the Jewish state’s technological edge has vastly improved its economy, medicine, AI, irrigation, and agricultural technology, the latter two of which Israel has revolutionized. He contrasts that Iran’s, Hezbollah’s, and Hamas’ supremacy… “lies in its willingness to sacrifice its fighters, and of course to bring in cheap fighters from Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, and to adopt replicas of Russian and Chinese weapons….Like Al-Queda, Hezbollah relies on (its fighters) bravery and ideological willingness to sacrifice themselves.”
In his 9/25 article, the hyperbolic Al-Rashad reports that “Over 4,000 people were killed or wounded in two high-quality technological operations carried out by Israel.” But according to a September 20th BBC news release, “At least 32 people, including two children, were killed and thousands more injured, many seriously, after communications devices, some used by the armed group Hezbollah, dramatically exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday.”
Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies: How did they explode and who did it? (bbc.com)
The Saudi reporter predicted that these wars would continue with no decisive outcome because Israel depends upon developing its war capabilities “while the other side is steeped in supernatural powers (religion) and attributes no significance to the loss of human life.”
Arab Journalists React To The Lebanon Pager Attacks: Israel Has Unprecedented Technological Superiority Over Hizbullah And Iran . The world should be grateful that a stable Democracy like Israel owns this technology, and not the mad dog murderers of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. Then, and only then, would international airlines be forced to forbid cell phones aboard flights.
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Now, who will get the blame if we have pager attacks in the United States????? Will this become another crisis??????? The crisis today is the shut down of the ports. You better stock up on toilet paper.
Only a sick society would think of (and use) pager explosives to kill, maim, and cripple people who they call their enemies. When are we going to admit that one nation, just one, has gone rogue in the Middle East?
I don’t know about you, but if everyone I deal with daily is telling me I’m acting like an a**hat, I’m going to examine, re-evaluate, and change my behavior. Who is acting that way but refusing to change in the Middle East? Whose stated objective is to grab even more land from people they deem “inferior”, civilian casualties be damned?
And what country, over overwhelming disapproval from 90% of the other nations, decides they’re right and the world is wrong? Is it any wonder that those few countries that don’t see anything wrong with offering support are now facing threats themselves?
And what countries provide that support while they themselves are falling apart? Hint: There are only about five of them.
Robin,
Which country are you speaking of? I’m also curious as to why you don’t refer to this country by its name?
Whoever this country is to whom you are referring, can you please provide specific documentation of the following statement you made, specifically the “stated objective” part:
“Whose stated objective is to grab even more land from people they deem ‘inferior’, civilian casualties be damned?”
Where and when was this stated?
How about this?
Neither side knows Jesus Christ.
Neither side is indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
Both sides are filled with pride.
Pride is the root of all fighting.
This is but one of the reasons God hates pride.
Will they ever be able to forgive? To forgive and forget, as God has done with his son?
When you realize you are broken, there is only one answer.
The fruit, the results of having the Holy Spirit in your life?
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Meekness, Goodness, Self-Control.
Funny how all things, all solutions lead in one direction.
Jesus Christ.
TGBTG
Buzzzzzz. Buzzzz.
Mohammed looks at his pager.
5….4….3….2….1 💣
This is a disgusting post.
Well the real question is what exactly exploded in the pagers? If they figured out a way to trigger the Lithium batteries guess what? We’re all carrying explosive devices in our pockets.
I find this subject quite interesting. In my analysis, I believe the Jews had to be on top of technology to survive. Taking history into account and what the Nazis did to them. They have developed survival intelligence and nothing is out of bounds. The enemy surrounds them. What would you do to survive? They think out of the box. The multiuse of the pagers is something I’d never think of. It has to strike fear in the enemy that uses them. They also establish funding resources, cleverly.
It’s been mentioned by a Alex A about Lithium batteries being triggered to explode. The article relates to explosives being installed by the Israelis. Lithium batteries do ignite (spontaneous combustion) when over heated, happens in homes, vehicles and on people when carried. Believe they are not the exploding means. I fear for airplane travel when cell phones and other devices are on board at 33,000 feet. You could be carrying a loaded pager without knowing it, but I suspect people in warring areas should be more concerned. Could this be included to apply to various political parties / people / adversaries? Give your political opponent a loaded pager or cell phone.
The Israelis are clever . They also developed Drones and now they are in use by many countries. With AI, future wars probably be fought using that means. It currently uses that means in our lives and a concern is raised that it needs to be controlled, Wars will be fought by people sitting at a desk. The world is changing, put your seat belt on.
This article has interesting points. Being an engineer, I marvel at technology.
When you are surrounded on 3 sides by enemies who routinely employ rape, child/elder murder and kidnapping as acts of aggression, and have tried for 76 years to push your tiny nation into the sea, you must innovate. Israel has done more than ANY nation on the planet to minimize civilian casualties, even providing ample warning to it’s enemies about where their strikes will occur to allow non-combatants to relocate. Many Israeli families have lost loved ones who serve in the IDF due to these prior warnings. The use of these electronic devices to specifically target the operatives involved in these savage attacks was pure genius, and very few bystanders were affected. Israel’s aggressors hide in hospitals, schools and behind the skirts of women, because they benefit in the war of public opinion when civilians are harmed, because of idiot leftists who are “Iran’s useful idiots”. Even as a non-Jew, I proudly support the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, and trust them to do what they feel they need to do to minimize their exposure to these savage, uncivilized enemies. There, I said it.