An indiscriminate attack

Claims that Israel's exploding pagers broke the laws of war say rather more about those levelling such charges

Hezbollah rocket attack on Kiryat Shmonah, northern Israel

Since Hezbollah’s exploding pagers and two-way radios killed a number of its operatives and seriously wounded and maimed hundreds of others, the usual Free-Israel-from-the-Jews mob have been screaming complaints about the “indiscriminate” nature of this precisely targeted Israeli attack. 

Let’s park for the moment the obvious fact that, with Hezbollah firing hundreds of missiles over increasingly large areas of Israel over the past few days with the express purpose of killing as many civilians as possible, those hollering “indiscriminate” about the astoundingly precise attacks on Hezbollah have been totally silent about the totally indiscriminate attacks by Hezbollah. As have virtually all western media and politicians about virtually all the thousands of indiscriminate rocket, missile and drone attacks that Hezbollah has been mounting against northern Israel every single day since October 8.

Let’s look instead at the nature of the complaint about Israel’s audacious communications onslaught against this Iran-backed military force  — that it was not only “indiscriminate” but also broke the laws of war — in order to grasp quite how perverse this is. Then let’s look at the background and antecedents of some of those invited by Britain’s Hamas Broadcasting Corporation to put the boot into Israel over it. And then let’s consider the malignancy of both the aforementioned BBC and the stage army of Israel demonisers that it calls upon to stick it to the Jews.