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Posted on 04/15/2026 9:23:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Israel has struck hard against Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, and this time they made it personal; they didn't go after weapons caches or logistics, instead targeting Hezbollah's members and leaders directly, in an attack that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has done more damage than the famous 2024 pager attacks.
Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist group, saw its command structure across Lebanon come under what Israeli officials described as one of the most devastating blows of the war April 8.
Nearly simultaneously, explosions tore through Beirut, Lebanon, the Beqaa Valley and southern Lebanon as roughly 50 Israeli aircraft struck more than 100 Hezbollah targets.
The targets were not rocket launchers or weapons depots, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but the nerve centers of the organization — command rooms, intelligence headquarters and offices where Hezbollah commanders planned the next stage of the fight.
Going for the leadership isn't the worst tactic in the world, especially when you consider that the leadership in organizations like this tends to be the only members with any brains to speak of; most of the run-of-the-mill jihadis are pretty much the dictionary definition of useful idiots. Also, despotic rulers tend not to like having people around who have much of anything in the way of gray matter, as your smarter goblins may harbor notions of taking over. So Israel probably got a lot of bang for their buck on this deal.
But here's the interesting statement:
The strike drew a comparison to the "beeper" operation in September 2024, when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an operation widely attributed to Israel.
The blasts killed more than 40 people and wounded roughly 4,000, according to Lebanese authorities, while Hezbollah later acknowledged that about 1,500 fighters were taken out of action. The operation shattered Hezbollah's communications network and became the benchmark in Israel for a strike that fundamentally changed the battlefield.
Now, this recent attack may have reduced more Hezbollah leaders to ambient temperature, but there can be little doubt that the pager attack had a greater psychological impact.
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Why? Here's why, and I'm going to tell you.
Consider the impact of those waves of pager explosions on your typical Hezbollah goblin. They have already been forced to give up their cellular phones, because the Israelis had demonstrated an uncanny ability in using them to track the average goblin's movements - and the movement of their leaders. So the leaders and line goblins alike switch to pagers, and then, in a long, complex, far-seeing operation, the Mossad managed to intercept shipments of pagers and pack them with explosives.
Now the Hezbollah goblins are looking at their personal electronics and seeing grenades. This isn't like a jet fighter firing missiles and dropping bombs; this is something that can go off at any time, with no warning, and when you consider where most people carry these things - the front pants pocket - they can do some real, horrifying damage. If they don't kill a guy, they may make him wish it had.
That's more than just a way to take goblins off the board. That's one of the neater pieces of psychological warfare we've seen in recent decades. Best of all, nobody in Hezbollah had any idea what was coming until pagers started exploding.
Someone in Israel has been reading their Sun Tzu:
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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I still prefer the pager trick. Showed superiority of the Israelis over the Hezbollah terrorists.
Still eliminating some of them is a small piece of good news in several days of miserable setbacks in politics and the constant badmouthing of Trump.
Me, too. And I love that it was referred to as “the grim beeper.”
That’s a great term. I missed it. Thanks.
Are you sure that wasn't the Grim Beeber?
“ Are you sure that wasn’t the Grim Beeber?”
It sure did stune them.
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Go Israel and don’t stop till the hezbollah butchers are gone.
GREAT! LOL!
Dang them Izzies again! I see a good cartoon here.
It sure did stune them.
Ezekiel 38:22-23:
“22 And I will judge against him [Gog] with pestilence and with blood, and rain bringing floods, and upon the many peoples that are with him.
23 And I will reveal Myself in My greatness and in My holiness and will be recognized in the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am the Lord.“
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“…and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone will I rain down upon him and upon his hordes….” Indeed.
Correction:
Ezekiel 38:22-23:
“22 And I will judge against him [Gog] with pestilence and with blood, and rain bringing floods, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone will I rain down upon him and upon his hordes and upon the many peoples that are with him.
23 And I will reveal Myself in My greatness and in My holiness and will be recognized in the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am the Lord.“
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“…and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone will I rain down upon him and upon his hordes….” Indeed.
And here I’m still wondering how 10/7 was allowed to occur.
That so messed up
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