If Shin Bet have any more similar exploits up their sleeve they'll have to use them all right now, before Hezbollah and/or Hamas fall back to bicycle couriers and handwritten notes on paper. (It's kind of hard to run a supply chain attack on 19th century tech.)
The moral of this story (besides Shin Bet being murderous bastards) is that your SIGSEC is always suspect if you're up against a technically advanced enemy (like Israel, with its extensive IT industry).
https://mastodon.social/@WNN7/113159185598004970
@cstross was it done by Shin Bet? I suspected one of the other two, Mossad or Aman…
@blotosmetek Shin Bet has pulled this sort of shit before but yes, it could be any other agency. It's fairly obvious *whose* agency it was, though—nobody else in the region has the competency to pull it off or the cold-blooded ruthlessness to do it.
@cstross @blotosmetek I expect your average Hezbollah fighter is cold-blooded and ruthless too towards their favoured targets of opportunity. It is a low level shooting war, after all.
@goatsarah @cstross @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Thinking about that kid yesterday who got her face blown off and how her funeral today was also attacked by bombs.
Tough shit for her, ey?
Dead brown babies mean nothing to these people, the inhumanity disgusts and enrages me
@Lazarou @goatsarah @cstross @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Well said.
Sure, Hezbollah is a scumbag death-cult, but NOTHING excuses what is in effect random terrorism.
It's beyond me how anyone can try and excuse Israel's actions.
@WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @cstross @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Was it random or was it targeted at Hezbollah fighters?
@jamiemccarthy @Lazarou @goatsarah @cstross @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Could Israeli control who would be in the blast radius of those devices? Could Israel control where those devices would be at the time of detonation?
If no, then it was random.
Stop excusing a racist, genocidal Apartheid regime.
@WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @cstross @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Is there any conceivable military response whatsoever that Israel could take against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon that you would not call “random”? (Serious question)
@jamiemccarthy @WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Sure! The assassination of Yahya Ayyash was anything but random: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash
@cstross @WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Great example but even in that case they didn’t know whether someone was standing next to him. There’s never zero risk of unintended casualties
@jamiemccarthy @cstross @WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @blotosmetek @davidbcohen and in any case as Wikipedia makes clear, net loss because caused >70 Israeli deaths as direct result of them killing one person
@jamiemccarthy @cstross @WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @blotosmetek @davidbcohen oh, the blame game. How's that working out?
@falken @cstross @WilliamNB @Lazarou @goatsarah @blotosmetek @davidbcohen Hm I thought it was a direct result of Hezbollah terrorists sending four suicide bombers to murder civilians