Great article again Fergus. I’m learning more and more from you about military strategies. Amazingly, BBC News were exhibiting surprise that Israel hadn’t shared their intention to attack Hezbollah command via their pagers. I say amazingly, as why on earth would anyone expect Israel to tell Starmer’s boys and girls. Starmer being a mate of the “Islington Friend of Hamas”, Lammy and Starmer banning sale of some arms to Israel and Labour being stuffed to the gills with anti-semites. Sir K being a prominent one despite his wife and kids being Jewish but hey, he wouldn’t pay for private health treatment if they were desperately ill. If Israel had told the UK they may as well have cut out the middle man and told Hezbollah and Hamas directly!
Genius! Absolute genius! But, we are whining about why they didn’t tell us! Firstly, because we wouldn’t have supported it and secondly, because we have shown them, that they are ultimately on their own. Israel, I salute you!
But it IS the cost of war - and bear in mind Hezbollah STARTED this war. They're the ones who decided to fire thousands of unguided, indiscriminate rockets into Israeli towns without provocation.
OK, you don't like the way Israel chose to hit back. How would YOU have done it?
But how would you have targeted them? Cruise missiles? Guided bombs? Because it's hard to see how those would cause LESS collateral damage than what Israel actually did.
But lithium ion batteries don't contain "battery acid" and I have seen no reports of fragmentation being added. That wouldn't make any sense in a device like that.
There is nothing "disgusting" about it. It was very precisely targeted on Hezbollah's members.
"All the civilians"? Just look at some of the footage. These were tiny explosions. One video shows a device going off and two men standing within a couple of feet of the target were completely unharmed.
So you think that because pagers were popular in the 1990s, that means pagers manufactured THIS YEAR don't use modern batteries? You may want to re-evaluate some assumptions there. In any case, 1990s pagers used normal AA batteries and they aren't filled with sulphuric acid either. ICOM radios are not "90s tech" and they use Li-Ion batteries.
Great article again Fergus. I’m learning more and more from you about military strategies. Amazingly, BBC News were exhibiting surprise that Israel hadn’t shared their intention to attack Hezbollah command via their pagers. I say amazingly, as why on earth would anyone expect Israel to tell Starmer’s boys and girls. Starmer being a mate of the “Islington Friend of Hamas”, Lammy and Starmer banning sale of some arms to Israel and Labour being stuffed to the gills with anti-semites. Sir K being a prominent one despite his wife and kids being Jewish but hey, he wouldn’t pay for private health treatment if they were desperately ill. If Israel had told the UK they may as well have cut out the middle man and told Hezbollah and Hamas directly!
Genius! Absolute genius! But, we are whining about why they didn’t tell us! Firstly, because we wouldn’t have supported it and secondly, because we have shown them, that they are ultimately on their own. Israel, I salute you!
I totally agree. I wouldn’t have told us either!
They couldn’t tell us Donna as they don’t trust us. And I don’t blame them.
Oh, and I loved the nod to Brittney Spears! 😂
Loving your military insight into all this Fergus. Fascinating. Your subtle humour goes a long way too. Cheers!
If this goes on the Hezbollah members will be afraid to flush a toilet
This adds a whole new layer of meaning to the phrase “bombed into the Stone Age”.
Effective *and* hilarious!
🇮🇱 doesn’t have this reach. This isn’t just MOSSAD, this is 🇺🇸 had enough of their 💩.
I mean Iran and the Pals and Lebanon. We 🇺🇸 were trying to bring them into the fold, but their own idiot treachery and bigotry ruined them.
In your opinion, what makes it a "terrorist attack"?
But it IS the cost of war - and bear in mind Hezbollah STARTED this war. They're the ones who decided to fire thousands of unguided, indiscriminate rockets into Israeli towns without provocation.
OK, you don't like the way Israel chose to hit back. How would YOU have done it?
But how would you have targeted them? Cruise missiles? Guided bombs? Because it's hard to see how those would cause LESS collateral damage than what Israel actually did.
Kramer, you antisemite, you should just give up, Ferguson & the IDF are way smarter than you.
There are things living in the ooze at the bottom of the Pacific that are way smarter than him.
But lithium ion batteries don't contain "battery acid" and I have seen no reports of fragmentation being added. That wouldn't make any sense in a device like that.
There is nothing "disgusting" about it. It was very precisely targeted on Hezbollah's members.
"All the civilians"? Just look at some of the footage. These were tiny explosions. One video shows a device going off and two men standing within a couple of feet of the target were completely unharmed.
So you think that because pagers were popular in the 1990s, that means pagers manufactured THIS YEAR don't use modern batteries? You may want to re-evaluate some assumptions there. In any case, 1990s pagers used normal AA batteries and they aren't filled with sulphuric acid either. ICOM radios are not "90s tech" and they use Li-Ion batteries.
"The fact that the goal of it was terror."
Really? It looks to me like the goal was to take out Hezbollah's command structure.
"Israel can just blow up battery acid and birdshot"
What are you talking about? Honestly, it sounds like you could do with a nice lie down.