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The original pager attack was triggered in the anniversary of World War II hero Folke Bernadotte assassination by Zionists, on September 17. See https://www.ind

• Modified3019 2y ago
  Most likely coincidence. From what I’ve read, Israel had to pull the trigger on the pagers early because some people (whom they were monitoring) had gotten suspicious that something was up.
  • morkalork 2y ago
    I wonder what tipped them off? The battery wasn't lasting as long? One accidentally went off early and they were investigating? A leak?
  • yieldcrv 2y ago
    That was Tuesday’s speculation It looks more likely to just be a demoralizing psyop, expose a couple thousand Hezbollah members based on hospital records and to the Lebanese public, disrupt communications and attack south Lebanon
• xenospn 2y ago
  Confidence for sure. I grew up in Israel and never heard of this anniversary.
  • Qem 2y ago
    He was assassinated one day after publishing his peace plan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte_plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte_plan
  • hedgehog 2y ago
    Countries often scrub their history books of things they're not proud of. I grew up in the US and not once was the 1921 Tulsa massacre covered in school.
    • borski 2y ago
      I grew up in NYC and definitely learned about Tulsa.
      • Larrikin 2y ago
        You are in the minority. Huge chunks of society were surprised by the Watchmen episode. My AP US History introduced the civil war section by saying despite his personal beliefs, he was teaching us to pass the exam and any discussion about the war being over slavery and not state's rights was a waste of class time as that would not get us a four or five on the test.
        • borski 2y ago
          I believe you, and I’m not happy about that. My AP history teacher in high school was black, so that may have affected it too, or perhaps it was the NYC curriculum as compared to curriculums in the South. I’m not sure, but I definitely recall hearing about and reading about Tulsa far before HS. I wish I knew when. But I totally believe you that is probably not true across wide swaths of the country.
        • deadlydose 2y ago
          Include me in that minority as well. I grew up in a small rural town and the massacre was covered in our history books. This was in HS in the mid 90s.
        • w4 2y ago
          > My AP US History introduced the civil war section by saying despite his personal beliefs, he was teaching us to pass the exam and any discussion about the war being over slavery and not state's rights was a waste of class time as that would not get us a four or five on the test. This is odd. When did you take the test? I was taught the civil war was about slavery in AP US History decades ago - including via primary sources - and got a 5 on the test.
• dredmorbius 2y ago
  I strongly suspect the birthday paradox is making an emergence. You'd be hard-pressed to find a day of the year without some plausible significance.