At this point, it’s impossible for outsiders to know either the operational details of the exploding devices or their short, medium, or long-term implications. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
Falling on its own sword must be a worry for both Israel and the U.S.
It’s incredibly hard to decipher the recent events in Lebanon. First, it was pagers exploding and then more recently walkie talkies with now 20 dead and over 500 wounded. Although Israel doesn’t admit the operation, it is clear their fingermarks are all over the operations and so it would be easy to assume that this was a huge success for Netanyahu. It has shocked Hezbollah and knocked out its communications, albeit temporarily, and showed both the Lebanese and the world that Israel is ahead of the Iranian-backed proxy. It was cunning, original and ingenious in its simplicity and its effectiveness. And such an attack has captured the imagination of the west’s media who went overboard on its coverage.
Of course, media experts and the commentators they turn to can’t tell what happens next. Many though are speculating that this is a prelude to an attack, an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah which is fought in southern Lebanon. The effeminate and self-obsessed Tom Fletcher, who used to be the UK ambassador in Lebanon previously offered no prescience or insight but just repeated the old clichés on BBC radio. Jeremy Bowen, a seasoned BBC Middle East hack offered more. Bowen warns that the rhetoric from Israel has been cranked up in recent days with even more military hardware moved to the Lebanese border – indicating that an invasion is imminent. He also warns though that Israel has a history of invading Lebanon and always leaving with a bloody nose, coining the cliché of going over the top of the abyss.
Indeed, falling on its own sword must be a worry for both Israel and the U.S.
Bowen is also careful to cover himself and add that the gadgets attack may well be part of an intimidation strategy which does not include a full-on invasion. No one really knows. A land invasion at least up to the Litani river must be on Netanyahu’s mind though. One more time to break the curse, he might be thinking. His generals will also be keen on such a venture, which would explain the gadgets attack as many Hezbollah fighters were left blinded or partially blinded.
No invasion?
While pagers are blowing up would be a perfect time to invade.
Then again they haven’t corralled Gaza and that prime oceanfront property, oil/gas deposits offshore, in almost a year.
Trump’s son-in-law plans to make big shekels off the Gaza property for sale or worldlings gonna worldling.
The time of Satanic Marxist Materialism is chock full of EVIL.
‘It has shocked Hezbollah and knocked out its communications, albeit temporarily,..”
“It was cunning, original and ingenious..”
The central facet of all Neocon thought, is that it fails to consider or to take into account any collateral consequences that will later emerge, assuming that its own primary actors will be immune anyway..
If you go back to Korea and Vietnam with the Neolib globalists finding draft-able ‘project 100,000’ victims to fuel the original Neolib perma wars, or the Maddie Albright crossover Neolib/Neocon hybrids gushing that it was ‘worth it’ to murder half a million Iraqi children, to the Neocon PNAC govt overthrows all geared to serve Israeli security interests, to the Nuland hybrid Neolibs/Neocons starting a war with the worlds largest nuclear power and overthrowing foreign govt while the president himself is setup to receive cash kickbacks to his grandchildren…
these are a scale of evil and corruption that is only outpaced by the utter incompetence and lack of depth in any of these murderous factions / schemes.
I ordered a few blow molded holsters from Israel over the years, basically because the IMI designs have a button release instead of friction. I have since used domestic made carbon fiber friction almost exclusively because its slimmer, not due to any political reasons..
however it immediately occurs to me that the world market for any product not only produced in Israel, but in any way handled / sourced / in cooperation with any such business interest or Sayanim is going to now find zero interested buyers. This is a state that has no real option now beyond total subsidization by unwilling US taxpayers whose own currency has been looted, even if the political class remains subservient.
Couple this reality with the fact that even in a last ditch environment where you were going to do something that will make your own business community a complete global pariah, you would not want to waste all the damage you will inflict on your own domestic manufactures unless this coincided with shutting down comms IMMEDIATELY preceding an actual invasion.. when it could have offered an advantage. They have to all have access to ebay motorola PTT backups or borrowing the same Afghan war ‘long-range cordless telephones’, and all the personnel are replaceable, so the long term effect is really only massive damage to their own domestic manufactures.
Anyone using comms run on an android, apple or even a symbian platform that runs over ss2 is 100% exploitable at this point. Get a Chinese (mainland) telecom manufacture product that uses proprietary OS, or one of the older US flip phones that uses its own proprietary OS, as a daily driver, and realize the limitations of what this can offer you.
In a revision similar to the Neocons failed prediction that “the Iraqis will welcome US occupation with flowers in the barrels of their guns”, the actual outcome here will be that the Israelis gave the biggest gift they could have to their opponents, because they drew massive attention to their industrial communications intrusions that most people were unaware of, there will be no market for their tech/exports, and anyone with a free govt will seek to discontinue their telecoms contracting.
Enjoy Pollard, though.