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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
State terrorism, Israel had no way of knowing who would be near the pagers, like Gaza the objective was to spread fear and cause killing regardless of who is being killed
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I think this claim would come down to if Israel put the maximum amount of explosive in the phone they could or not. Watching the video in the fruit stand made it seem reasonable. It’s tragic that a child died because they were sitting on their father. I don’t think that satisfies the definition of terrorism on its own.
This was an attack on the military members of a country they are at war with.
I’d also argue this was designed to identify Hezbolah members and to spread fear in Hezbolah rather than in the general civilian population.
If Israel wants to spread fear in Lebanon you just follow the Gaza playbook. Bomb areas into submission tell people to go to safe zones than bomb the safe zones.
I think Israel fighting in Gaza like they do in Iran and Lebonon would represent significant progress.