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Israel's 'red button': Device blasts hit Hezbollah at critical moment, officials say
jpost ^ | 09/23/2024 | JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Posted on 09/23/2024 7:59:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The device explosions in Lebanon last week were part of Israel's "red button" plan, designed to be activated at a critical moment for maximum impact against an adversary, current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of the pager operation told the Washington Post.

The double round of device explosions that took place last week throughout Lebanon caused a high number of Hezbollah casualties throughout the country.

According to the report, the plot was primarily part of Israel's long-term strategy to develop its "red button capability" to be prepared for critical moments.

"A ‘red button’ is a concept for something you can use when you want or need it," a former Israeli official with knowledge of the pager operation explained in the report.

However, the reasoning behind the timing of the device attack has not been fully understood.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1800eatthis; beirut; device; hezbollah; israels; lebanon; redbutton
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IDF is clever
1 posted on 09/23/2024 7:59:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wonder what/when they hit the mullahs with. They know it’s coming somehow.


2 posted on 09/23/2024 8:03:56 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Clever on stilts


3 posted on 09/23/2024 8:08:47 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This was an incredibly clever operation, including keeping US in the dark.


4 posted on 09/23/2024 8:10:00 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

I have to figure that Hezbollah didn’t issue the pagers to privates, but to NCOs and officers.


5 posted on 09/23/2024 8:15:23 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: HYPOCRACY
Next will be cups made out of an explosive plastic material with embedded electronic detonator chips.


6 posted on 09/23/2024 8:17:16 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: ComputerGuy

It never would have worked had the US known about it


7 posted on 09/23/2024 8:17:28 AM PDT by Saintgermain ( )
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To: ComputerGuy
This was an incredibly clever operation, including keeping US in the dark.

The treasonous mental midget in the white house would've announced it to the world if they hadn't kept The US in the dark. Just ask Seal Team Six how he does with sensitive information.

8 posted on 09/23/2024 8:20:20 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (President Trump saved by DIVINE INTERVENTION. GOD CONTINUES TO BLESS AMERICA!!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is a photo floating around the web showing the late Iranian president with a pager identical to the ones used in the attack. Perhaps his was detonated when he was on board the helicopter.

CC


9 posted on 09/23/2024 8:20:38 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Interesting.

Except for the one idiot “Criticizing Israel’s operation, a former US intelligence official”. He needs to shut up and go away.


10 posted on 09/23/2024 8:27:18 AM PDT by dagunk
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To: ComputerGuy

It would’ve been leaked. They’ve learned from the past.


11 posted on 09/23/2024 8:29:00 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Riddle me this batman:
How did the IDF get explosives in the pagers?
Back in the day when i had to carry a pager, one was issued and purchased by management. You then carried that same device until it became obsolete or was lost. Loading up multiple pagers with explosives for some future detonation? James Bond stuff for sure.
Hey look Achmed, they have a BOGO on pagers down at the Quikee Mart! Run down and pick up a dozen!
Thats how they did it! Offered a bargain price on multiple units with free shipping from Jerusalem!


12 posted on 09/23/2024 8:30:58 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This was more than clever.

This was cle cle!


13 posted on 09/23/2024 8:34:07 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Operation Grim Beeper (not mine, heard in radio show) but loved it.


14 posted on 09/23/2024 8:36:55 AM PDT by AlanSC (As Andrew Wilkow has said of AOC: she has the body of a lingerie mannequin and the brains to match)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IDF or Mossad?


15 posted on 09/23/2024 8:38:30 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It was ESSENTIAL that US officials be kept in the dark or else those little explosions would have gone off in baby cribs, carriages on playgrounds and in schools.


16 posted on 09/23/2024 8:38:45 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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Now THIS is what happens when your beeber gets stuned !!!


17 posted on 09/23/2024 8:41:11 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 9422WMR

“ How did the IDF get explosives in the pagers?”

They manufactured them. That’s how.

L


18 posted on 09/23/2024 8:41:26 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I wonder how many Hamas pagers and walkies were thrown into the ocean.

This is their greatest surprise since Stuxnet.

19 posted on 09/23/2024 8:47:09 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Carl Vehse

Ssh. What if that is really the plan?


20 posted on 09/23/2024 8:58:42 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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