by Jeff Childers
If there is someone filling in for me tomorrow, it’ll most likely be because of that headline.
I might not have gone down this road last week, but I’m in a bit of a mood after a few days of dealing with the garbage human beings on the Left and their responses to the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life.
Oh, who are we kidding — I don’t need to be in a particularly bad mood to mock anything bad that happens to terrorists. Also, it gives us a brief respite from discussing the horrid leftists and the new depths of depravity that they’re plumbing. Sort of.
In the era of smartphones that are more powerful than any of the first several computers that I owned, it’s odd to see the lowly pager making such a splash in the news. Rick wrote about the Great Pager Attack of ’24 for us:
Somebody or some nation (you get three guesses, and the first two don’t count) sent Hezbollah a gift: hundreds of brand-new, state-of-the-art pagers. At mid-morning, the devices exploded at basically the same time.
This was shared in a post at our sister site Twitchy later in the day:
Here’s what happened in Lebanon:
1. Mossad intercepted a purchase order from Hezbollah for several pagers. Pagers allow them to communicate without being tracked.
2. Mossad went to the factory and added a heat sensitive explosive to the pagers. When the pagers turned on, the…
— Julia Song (@realjuliasong) September 17, 2024
Of course, the money was on Israel all along.
Israel may have its hands full with the war against Hamas, but that doesn’t mean that the murderous jihadis at Hezbollah are just kicking back and waiting their turn. It’s one of those peculiar Israeli dilemmas that the “Free Palestine” loons in the United States never think about. Israel has pressing survival concerns that the armchair peaceniks here can’t possibly fathom.
Predictably, the latter-day Brownshirts in the U.S. were triggered by the news of the boom-boom pagers, especially one of their most prominent cheerleaders. This is from my Townhall colleague Rebecca Downs:
One person who isn’t too thrilled, though, is Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a member of the anti-Israel Squad. Tlaib herself has been particularly relentless in propagating anti-Israel falsehoods in the past and has even been censured by Congress as a result.
In a quoted repost from Al-Jazeera English’s Ali Harb, Tlaib referred to the explosion as “Disgusting.” Harb was taking issue with a joke from Ron Kampeas, the Washington Bureau Chief of Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).
There was plenty in the way of memes to keep the execrable Tlaib and her ilk upset. Social media was positively, um, exploding with them. Naturally, our colleagues at Twitchy were all over it.
One notable Democrat was not feeling sympathetic towards Hezbollah:
I fully support efforts to target and neutralize any existential threat like Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/dzcBb3UdA4
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) September 17, 2024
I have never been more happy about being wrong regarding a politician in my life. Fetterman is a reminder of what Democrats used to be like. Sadly, I don’t think many more like him will be coming along any time soon. It wouldn’t be surprising to see him go the way of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. The Dems do not like keeping their moderates around.
Love this
This is outstanding
Hezb’allah is officially a “No Nuts Organization.”
Seriously tho?
Mossad had the moxie to sabotage Hezb’allah’s entire network
One of those dead or badly injured was the Ambassador to Lebanon from IRAN.
Ya gotta love that.
He was “in the loop.”
The Bible tells about how Dinah was raped by a Hittite then he plotted to kill all her brothers when they came to their wedding, thus the Israelites would be eradicated and the Hittites would own the land.
But the Israelites got wind of the plot and insisted the Hittite males be circumcised before the wedding.
While the Hittites were incapacitated by their circumcisions the Israelis killed them all.
Dinah was vindicated and the plot failed.
This pager plot mirrors that.
It was high time that Hezb’allah stopped lobbing missiles into Northern Israel.
IF you have a pager, you would do the same thing when a message is received, that you do with your smartphone. You put it to your face to read it, and examine who sent the message and what it said. If only several thousand of those devices were issued, who receives them? Most likely, the middle range of the Hezbollah network. Cell/unit leadership, or the “NCO’s” of their network Israel (apparently) discovered a way to literally BLIND the entire Hezbollah command network.
Secondarily, while reports on the “how” of it are all over the place (i.e. one would suspect that Mossad had cover stories upon cover stories to create deniability, in both human and technological terms, as they don’t want this used against them), it appears circuit boards made of an hard explosive substance were used in the construction. The trigger had to have been via a signal (i.e. if it were simply the heat of activating the devices, they wouldn’t have triggered in mass simultaneously). If Mossad can do this, could the Red Chinese have done the same with the millions of electronic devices that THEY have sent to America in phones and embedded equipment? Talk about a national security threat! Job #1 for the DoD is to figure out how to protect America from this technological innovation.
What’s hiding in YOUR cell phone? Should you carry them on your person, let along your pants pocket or strapped to your waist? I guess the next innovation will be cell phone carrying cases made of Kevlar, you know, just in case?