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.