Ed wrote about the news earlier today about Israel managing to pull off one of the most impressive covert attacks on a terrorist organization in history. 

Injuries from today’s Pager Attack on Hezbollah Members in Lebanon and Syria have now risen to just under 4,000.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 17, 2024

The Mossad--we assume, because nobody has taken credit--managed to literally neuter a large number of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, injuring or killing somewhere north of a thousand. The numbers are vague and all over the place; I have seen as few as 300 and as many as multiple thousands injured or killed. 

According to Agence France-Presse over 2,750 Hezbollah members have been injured, and 8 of them are dead in blasts all across Lebanon today as their special messaging pagers blew up in an unprecedented cyberattack. pic.twitter.com/C3mcUhHhiN

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 17, 2024

Who knows? We will eventually get a good accounting of the damage, but for now, all we know is that LOTS of Hezbollah a**holes are not able to walk around uninjured, and many likely lost their testicles. 

72 virgins pointing at your crotch, laughing. https://t.co/q8I7pbangR

— Dave Gordon 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@D_Gordzo) September 17, 2024

There are a lot of videos out there on the interwebs, so I won't share many of the hundreds floating around. You can find them yourself with a simple search. Indeed, Israel is happy that the videos are out there since it must add to the fear that terrorists feel, knowing that not only can they be harmed or killed by seemingly safe technologies but that they can be humiliated in the bargain. 

Breaking News: Large numbers of “wireless devices” simultaneously exploded across Lebanon, according to the country's health ministry, a day after Israeli leaders warned that they were considering stepping up their military campaign against Hezbollah. https://t.co/fN3ReVYKFm

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 17, 2024

Getting your family jewels blown off must suck; knowing that your enemies are laughing at a video of it happening to you must hurt even more. And all those virgins will be secretly smiling, knowing that your capacity for raping them is much diminished. 

The more I think about this Israeli attack the more it seems to me it would be described as a terrorist attack if conducted by any other actor. The explosives are not lithium batteries. They are going off in markets, shops,supermarkets, buses, cars…

— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) September 17, 2024

Still, there are people on the interwebs quite angry that Israel pulled off this stunning feat, complaining that it shows Israel is indifferent to peace somehow. 

Have you not followed the news that Hezbollah has been using rockets against Israel and that the northern part of Israel has been evacuated for months? That is already war.

— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 17, 2024

Cenk Uygur, late of MSNBC and now host of the "Young Turks," is outraged that Israel committed an act of war against Hezbollah. 

That seems strange to me given that Hezbollah has been raining rockets down on Israelis and killing its citizens for months, forcing the Jewish state to evacuate much of the northern region of its country. 

The Bite of the Beeper

©Mossad 2024https://t.co/0ChTaEMCCc

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 17, 2024

Killing Jews and Israeli Arabs is just another day ending in "y," so no big deal. Israel striking back is unforgivable, apparently. 

We now live in a world where millions of leftists believe that Israelis and all Jews have a responsibility to get killed without defending themselves. Jews, you see, are "settler colonialists," while antisemites are innocents whose job it is to harass and kill Jews. This is the just and natural order we are told, and it is appalling that Jews are not cooperating. 

Hezbollah thought it was smart, and switched from smartphones to communicating with old pagers and flip-phones. That didn’t work out so well, as Israel figured out how to cause the batteries to explode remotely, like a mini-Stuxnet. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/udEwRxOtEr

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) September 17, 2024

Ironically, I believe that for many Western leftists, this attitude is an expression of implicit racism. Jews are, not universally but for the most part, white or white-adjacent in their eyes, and antisemites are in large numbers browner than they. Leftists believe that violence and hatred are just part of their culture, while Jews should behave better than they do. 

I've been told this by a liberal to my face. "That's just their culture. We should be better than that."

It's a weird form of racism in which uncivilized people are excused if they are not white, while white people are proving racist because they don't tolerate getting robbed or killed. 

If violence is just "their culture," then it is time to reject the culture. That doesn't mean rejecting individuals of any race or creed, but I happen to believe that the color of one's skin does NOT determine character or behavior. People of all races or religions can be good, bad, civilized, or uncivilized. 

So, I don't see the terrorists of Hezbollah as victims. They are targets because they are terrorists. 

It's pretty simple. Judge people by the content of their character, not their race. Terrorists should get what they deserve, regardless of race or religion.