At this stage it’s likely that Hezbollah terrorists – the ones who can still walk, that is – are more than a little bit shy of picking up the phone or opening the mail. In fact, they’re probably checking the carrier pigeons for explosives hidden up their jacksies.
For now, surely, it’s strictly face-to-face communications – in very squeaky voices.
The very day after some 3000 Hezbollah terrorists’ pagers simultaneously exploded, yet more electronic devices – walkie-talkies and solar panels – owned by members of the terror group also exploded. To date, the astonishing James Bond-like operation has resulted in at least 20 deaths, and thousands of injuries, including, it is claimed, castration from explosive pagers carried in pockets.
Hezbollah might be on track to be the first eunuch army since the Ming dynasty.
One thing’s for sure, the outcome of the attacks goes way beyond killing and crippling thousands of terrorists.
Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah was one of the most astonishing and devastating intelligence attacks in history, not only dealing a savage blow to the militant group but also sending a chilling message to the terror puppet master Iran.
In conjunction with the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a luxury guesthouse run and protected by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, the message from each exploding pager and solar panel was clear: there’s nowhere beyond Mossad’s reach.
From Israel’s perspective, the attack appears to have been Mossad’s finest hour. The Israeli intelligence service appears to have secretly intercepted a new batch of pagers ordered by Hezbollah and inserted explosives into each one, to be detonated remotely and en masse.
Ironically, the pagers were only ordered because Hezbollah deemed mobile phones to be too easily compromised by Mossad.
The genius of such an attack, from Israel’s perspective, was that because the pagers were only handed out to Hezbollah members, the vast majority of those injured by the exploding pagers were directly linked to the terror group, with minimal innocent lives lost.
As such, the pager attack is likely to do more damage to Hezbollah than anything we have seen previously because it has disabled thousands of its fighters while destroying the ability of the group to communicate and plot new attacks.
For months, villages in northern Israel have been evacuated due to daily missile and drone attacks by Hezbollah, from southern Lebanon. The resort to such a cowardly proxy war, even as Israel is heavily invested in a ground war in Gaza, shows just how terrified of Israel the Islamic world, for all its bluster and chest-beating, really is.
The pager and walkie-talkie attack is hardly like to make Israel’s enemies sleep any easier.
After all, who knows if the alarm clock won’t blow up, next?
So will the pager attack, which has injured as many as 3000 Hezbollah-connected people, many of them seriously, persuade Hezbollah’s leadership to end their proxy war with Israel?
That is unknown but the attack has severely embarrassed the terror group which, despite vowing revenge, has now been weakened […]
If Hezbollah does not stop its low-scale harassment, it is likely that Israel will step up its military offensive against Hezbollah, up to and including sending ground troops into southern Lebanon.
The pager attack was a huge shot across the bow of Hezbollah at a critical time. It won’t guarantee an outbreak of peace but it will strengthen, rather than weaken, Israel’s hand in its ongoing tussle with the terror group.
And at a time when Israel’s so-called ‘allies’, not to mention the corrupt, grotesque, UN, are holding the other arm twisted behind its back.
