No, it would not stop people disliking or distrusting each other, but it would be fairer and more just. South Africa.
No, not that it is relevant. See South Africa in 1994 yet again. No comparable country in the region.
Right so, because this was just appalling and resulted in the deaths of innocent children, and not in fact much worse, like an act of genocide, we are supposed to think this is okay?
I rather suspect anyone using a pager to receive updates from militants might check it in, but if it makes you feel better that it couldn't happen in Britain and it only killed innocent Lebanese people alongside some militants that's up to you.
No, you are dodging the fact you're excusing the act in Lebanon - and in fact justifying it and providing moral relevance to it - when you would not if it happened here. Were you outraged by the Russian radiation incident in Salisbury? If not, you should have been, for its reckless nature in that civilians got harmed and could have been killed. Britain is conducting conflicts against multiple actors and states, and if any of them were to try to retaliate by blowing up key individuals in public spaces in Britain, ending up killing British children as collateral, you'd be outraged. You probably feel sickened at things like the Warrington bomb, where the IRA waged its war on Britain with little regard for the people it would kill, regardless of how "clean" their aims might have been. You know you would be disgusted by it, and you want to avoid feeling unclean about your comfort that it was just Lebanese children killed by hoping to avoid the comparison.
That's because that side is being aided and abetted in its genocide by our government and you are expected by our media and the state to think it's okay for Israel to do that, and in fact will go so far as to provide moral equivocation for their war aims. A more principled stand is to call out both aggressors but concentrate on maintaining pressure on our own responsibilities in bringing the genocide to an end.
Definitely a relief!
Somebody was...
Hezbollah are not amateurs, I’m sure they scanned the equipment before they used it.
The same people cheering this atrocity are the same people who were outraged when the IRA bombed the Conservative Party conference.
I rather suspect that, with sufficient rescources, it is possible to encapsulate and then decontaminate small amounts of explosives so that there is no detectable residue. Can't comment on modern CT scanners.
I don't read X but it's the only topic I've heard from her for the past hour....I find this post rather disturbing; do you really want to (be seen to) condone this terrorist attack, by an aggressive occupying state? If so, I find it disappointing.
Indeed; it's very much a case of double standards. However, some people who support the far-right Israeli government claim it is "racism" to call out Israel's illegal occupation, terrorist actions and oppression towards civilians, which I think scares politicians and the media. It's utterly absurd.
Gosh, I’d forgotten she’d actually died. Thought she was one of the ones simply taken ill.
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These really are despicable terrorist acts; this is the sort of disgraceful act you might expect from a lowlife terrorist organisation, not an actual state (albeit one run by a far-right regime).
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It also serves to divert attention from settlement activity in the West Bank.
I have been trying to find a definition of terrorism. I got this one from Wikipedia.Walkie-talkie explosions spark fresh day of chaos in Lebanon
A second wave of communication device explosions killed at least 20 people, Lebanese officials say.
These really are despicable terrorist acts;
I think we'll find that the lithium ion batteries used to power most mobile devices from pagers, walkie-talkies, phones through laptops to cars, are the main source of the explosion. Once ignited these batteries are difficult to extinguish until all the stored energy is used up. If provided with the right "trigger" something can cause these batteries to dangerously overheat quickly and thus "explode".
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Surely that was the whole point of using exploding pagers issued to Hezbollah to avoid/minimize civilian casualties?
Are you trying to be disingenuous?
Devices exploding in supermarkets, and at funerals counts as going for combatants, does it?
Most news outlets here in the USA and commentators have made the point that it was a good attempt at minimizing civilian casualties. It will almost certainly have the effect of severely disrupting communications between the terrorists. From that point of view and since it is a war, I suggest it was very successful indeed.
If civilian casualties are kept to a minimum, the location does not matter too much.
I wouldn't trust the USA media outlets to be totally unbiased in their reporting of matters pertaining to Israel. It is well recognised internationally that the level of US support for Israel is dubious at best.
So your argument is that it's okay to have explosive devices detonating at supermarkets, funerals etc?
I have skin in the game.
Indeed; the far-right Israeli terrorist regime do indeed have a slogan along the lines that 'between the river and the sea, there will only be Israeli sovereignty'
I can understand why you are biased, because of family, but that in no way makes you right. Indeed someone who is biased should, ideally, be stepping back from the arguments, in recognition of their lack of ability to detatch their own emotions from the reality of the situation.
It may seem crazy, but it seems that the left/liberal outlets in the USA are more supportive of the Israel side than the conservative outlet.
Well, if you believe what you are posting, there is clearly an issue with the reporting in the USA. But it doesn't take much research to realise that what you posted was, at the very least, overly simplistic and incomplete.
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You talk about your family, and appear to admit to taking a pro-Israeli regime view on that basis, but if you had relatives in Lebanon who were victims of these terrorist acts by the Israeli regime, would you then take a different view?
Quite possibly - probably even. That is why there needs to be a lasting peace settlement. I hate war. There are no winners really - or if you "win" it comes at a horrendous price.
Again, this is an argument that simply wouldn’t fly if it was some British children and British innocents that got caught up and killed in an attack like this. If the IRA had bombed a soldier while he was standing in the supermarket and killed a child too in the process it would have been rightly regarded as repellent, as well as uninterested in civilian carnage. It would also have been rightly regarded as terrorism.
