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The point was that the US government regularly accepts civilian casualties in trageted strikes, so it would be hypocritical for the US government to complain no

• insane_dreamer 2y ago
  > this doesn't apply to anyone who hasn't supported such strikes in the war against terror or to any US ally; the hypocrisy has been around for a long time already if 20 Mossad agents had been assassinated in Israel _in the same way_, we'd be hearing the story told in a whole different way
  • colordrops 2y ago
    20 Mossad agents with 2700 civilians injured, 200 close to death, to include all the details. Many civilians were doctors with pagers. Edit: my comment is 100% factual and unopinionated. I'm just quoting an NPR report. To downvote this is to be a propaganda agent.
    • rocqua 2y ago
      Your comment is unsubstantiated, and I haven't been able to find any source that confirms. The downvotes seem reasonable to me.
      • colordrops 2y ago
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    • charbroiled 2y ago
      What NPR report says thousands of civilians were injured? None of these do: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23452/hezbollah-pagers-explode-across-lebanon-causing-nearly-3-000-casualties https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23452/hezbollah-pagers-e... https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbollah-fighters-wounded-following-pager-blasts https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbolla...
      • colordrops 2y ago
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        • charbroiled 2y ago
          It says thousands were injured, not that the thousands injured were civilians. In fact, it’s likely that most casualties were Hezbollah operatives. From the first link: “Reports from Lebanon said Hezbollah recently received a new batch of imported pagers, which were being used to share information about possible Israeli drone strikes and other attacks.” From the second link: “The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said the pagers belonged to the group’s officials and blamed Israel for orchestrating what appeared to be an unusual synchronized attack on Hezbollah’s communications system.” Based on that, and the limited effective range of the blast (as visible in videos and the fact that the injuries are consistent with a pager in a hand or a pocket), it’s likely that the majority of injuries were of Hezbollah personnel. > Are you a bot? No.
          • colordrops 2y ago
            Please explain to me how exactly Mossad got these pagers into only Hezbollah hands. It was just a shipment of pagers that was interfered with while in transit. There were absolutely non Hezbollah that had these things. Also please explain to me how nearby innocents were protected. That's right, they weren't.
            • dredmorbius 2y ago
              The pagers, which Hezbollah had ordered from Gold Apollo in Taiwan, had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon, according to some of the officials. Most were the company’s AR924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment. <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-pagers-explosives.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-h...> Ordered by, and delivered to, Hezbollah.
• colordrops 2y ago
  The US would call this terrorism if it occurred in the exact same fashion to itself or allies. The hypocrisy is blindingly clear. It's hypocrisy because they don't complain. Your logic is completely backward.