This Israeli attack may prove to be a fatal mistake.

Right, so following the attack on Lebanon by Israel through the use of pagers, walkie talkies and allegedly other electronic equipment as well, the question of how safe are the rest of us around the world if Israel have infiltrated the global electronic supply chain has been a question many people are asking. It might be more justified than first thought however thanks to an investigation conducted by ABC News, who have had it confirmed to them by a US intelligence source that Israel was indeed behind these pager attacks, but not only that, and arguably far more disturbing for people elsewhere around the world, that same source has claimed that Israel have been conducting what the source has referred to as a supply chain interdiction operation for the past 15 years. This attacks via exploding electronics has been 15 years in the making. 15 years we’ve known nothing about it until this strike came and so the question left hanging in the air therefore, is how much further has the global electronics supply chain been interfered with by the Israeli state and need we be worried about it too, as global attitudes towards Israel continue to sour as their genocide and beastly tactics with scant regard for innocent lives continues?
Right, so this story just keeps on getting more and more disturbing the more information ends up uncovered and whilst Israel maintains official silence in regards to either confirming or denying that they were responsible for the pager and walkie talkie attacks we’ve seen in Lebanon this past week, that hasn’t stopped others investigating and it is an investigation by US based ABC News that has caught my eye, because it seems not only did the CIA know about what Israel were doing, they themselves have the same capability, however they had chosen to shelve such tactics, due to the high risk of innocents being caught up in such actions and clearly we have seen that come to pass over those explosions in Lebanon as pagers and walkie talkies blew up in people’s faces, 37 lives having been lost and thousands injured as a result of them, the youngest fatality a 10 year child who died when her father’s pager exploded, very much proving the point, but lives appear to be cheap as far as Israel is concerned, they did go ahead with this action themselves and this according to ABC has been confirmed to them by a US intelligence source. Here’s an excerpt from their coverage of the investigation:
‘Israel had a hand in the manufacturing of pagers that exploded on Hezbollah operatives this week, with this type of "supply chain interdiction" operation having been planned for at least 15 years, a U.S. intelligence source confirmed to ABC News.
The CIA has long been reluctant to employ this tactic because the risk to innocents was too high, the source said.
Planning for the attack involved shell companies, with multiple layers of Israeli intelligence officers and their assets fronting a legitimate company that produced the pagers, the source confirmed to ABC News, with at least some of those doing the work unaware of who they were actually working for.
Israel's hand in the manufacturing was first reported by The New York Times.
One to two ounces of explosives and a remote trigger switch to set off the blast were planted in the pagers, according to the sources.
The last two days of explosions in Lebanon, triggered remotely with explosives inside pagers or walkie-talkies, have killed at least 37 people and wounded 2,931, according to Lebanese Health Minister Firass Al-Abyad.’
For 15 years Israel have been infiltrating electronics supply chains, setting up shell companies run by Israeli intelligence as the front, to all intents and purposes giving the impression they were legitimate companies not just distributing pagers licenced by other companies, but manufacturing them too, to the point they were taking on employees to do the work, not knowing necessarily what they were doing or who they were really working for. The same goes for those who, like Gold Apollo in Taiwan, who licensed the pagers to the, as it turns out, Hungarian shell company BAC Consulting KFT, not realising this was just a front for Israeli intelligence. No way of knowing that their pagers were being turned into weapons possibly?
But of course this then begs the question of how much more could Israel have waiting in the wings if they have been actively planning to weaponise electronic devices and been doing so via shell companies – companies plural so say ABC News, so there must be others – and who potentially could they be targeting and therefore can any of us consider ourselves safe any more if we use such devices ourselves and who would put it past Israel to target other nations too? Perhaps individuals they deem problematic from government level to journalists. They certainly haven’t worried about journalists being killed during their reporting of Israeli actions in Gaza, they don’t want the world to know about it, they’ve now just forcibly shut down Al-Jazeera not just in Israel itself, but now in Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank as well, this is Palestinian Authority territory showing how much Israel cares about such matters in pursuit of it’s own interests too.
Aside from that, they’ve infiltrated Lebanon this time with their electronics, but we know Israel want a wider war, so could others in nearby Middle Eastern nations also unbeknownst to them be carrying around devices ready to be weaponised in some future conflict and actually this doesn’t just come down to the Middle East, literally anywhere in the world could be affected if Israel have been involved in this sort of subterfuge for 15 years now. This is as some have commented on a new form of warfare, never before have innocent everyday objects been weaponised as has happened here, but it is a completely indiscriminate form of it as well and so surely it in and of itself should not be legal, but being new, the first thing you have to ask yourself is how do we classify it in terms of a criminal act? Should this be considered a war crime or an act of terrorism, because it matters should anyone eventually face prosecution for this, or if the state of Israel eventually will be at the ICJ for instance?
Actually that’s an issue that fundamentally comes back to the legal standpoint of where things are right now between Lebanon and Israel. Do we already consider the two nations to be at war or are they not quite there yet?
If they are at war, or are later deemed to be at this moment in time to be at war, then Israel violated Article 51 of Additional Protocol I and Article 85 of the Geneva Conventions by targeting non combatants. Article 51 prohibits indiscriminate attacks on civilians, of which this clearly was an indiscriminate attack and Article 85 states that attacks on non combatants like civilians amount to a war crime, a combatant for reference, strictly speaking in the wording of the convention, being anyone under military command, wearing a distinguishable uniform and openly carrying weapons. Under international law anyone not fitting those markers is a non combatant.
But if Lebanon and Israel are not formally at war yet, and neither have declared it so, this attack was a terror attack. It was terrorism. Here’s an excerpt from the Cradle detailing what this means:
‘According to the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (1997), Israel’s actions can be categorized as a "terrorist bombing." The use of civilian devices, like pagers, in non-military zones with the intent to spread fear aligns with the convention’s definition of terrorism, which criminalizes the unlawful use of explosives to target civilians or infrastructure with the intent to intimidate populations or coerce governments.
The UN General Assembly Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism (1994) defines terrorism as any act aimed at causing death or serious bodily harm to civilians for the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or international organization to act. Accordingly, the pager bombings were intended to intimidate the Lebanese and the resistance or force them to make concessions, which is consistent with the definition of terrorism under customary international law.
Yesterday, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter condemned the "massive terrorist attack" in Lebanon and Syria, while Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, wrote in a statement that the attack "violates international human rights law, and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law."’
There is however, a very good reason, other than the obvious criminality of their actions, for Israel to not repeat this. It’s been a massive economic own goal for them.
Consider their tech industry for one, particularly the cybersecurity industry. This has been in recent years a massive success story for Israel economically, high tech exports accounting for over half of all Israeli exports and accounting for a fifth of Israel’s GDP, but who the hell wants to buy Israeli electronics now? Who would trust them? Who would want them? It wouldn’t any longer necessarily be a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions issue here, more a wonder if such electronics supplied wouldn’t be implanted with explosives, or be rigged to blow however Israel have managed to make other devices as has been alleged detonate too? Israel’s economy has already been hammered hard, it’s tech industry lost a massive multi billion dollar deal with Intel in light of what they have done in Gaza and even if it isn’t explosives being put in their exports, what about spyware or backdoor access being planted in it instead? How can anyone consider buying Israeli tech after this really not knowing what may be inside it. They spent 15 years infiltrating the industry and it’s supply chains after all.
But it goes further than that and again it comes back to another threat Israel now represents even if the tech we do buy is ostensibly safe as it should be, because if Israel are not reined in, are not brought to book for what they’ve done here and they continue as they would no doubt do if left to be able to do so, continue to interfere in electronics and communication devices so that we all end up feeling and possibly quite justifiably, that no communication device or electronic gadget or the electronic global industry, it’s supply chains and infrastructure is not secure from potential Israeli interference and sabotage? The entire global tech industry has been undermined therefore has it not?
Poses an intriguing notion given all the western countries that are so inherently wedded to supporting Israel also happen to be major capitalist governments, because big tech business and Israel have now basically clashed haven’t they? Which matters more to these governments now I wonder, or will this all be swept under the carpet and tried to be forgotten or played down? We can't afford to let that happen surely?
Speaking of backfiring attacks however, the UK may have just become embroiled legally speaking in Israel’s recent attacks on Beirut by virtue of the fact Israel used a F-35 jet to level two residential blocks and well, we won’t cancel those F-35 arms sales licences will we? Another fine mess Starmer and Co have gotten us into. Find out all the details of that story here as your recommended next watch and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.