(OPINION) What we just witnessed in the Middle East shocked the entire globe. Sadly, a lot more death and destruction is coming. Whether they are both willing to admit it or not, the truth is that Israel and Hezbollah are at war.
It is just a limited war for now, but it is only a matter of time before it escalates into an “all-out war” that kills vast numbers of people on both sides. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out how this ends.
When there is an existential conflict that involves two parties which absolutely refuse to back down, only one party is ultimately going to survive. Unfortunately, most people have absolutely no idea what is coming.
It appears that we may have already reached a point of no return. After the attack that occurred on Tuesday, Hezbollah will be more determined to wipe out Israel than ever before…
At about 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, pagers started heating up and then exploding in the pockets and hands of those carrying them — particularly in a southern Beirut suburb and the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon where Hezbollah has a strong presence, and in Damascus, where several Hezbollah members were wounded, Lebanese security officials and a Hezbollah official said.
The Hezbollah official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. When I first heard about this, it sounded like something out of a science fiction movie.
Apparently the pagers that exploded had been recently purchased by Hezbollah….
The pagers that exploded had been newly acquired by Hezbollah after the group’s leader ordered members to stop using cell phones, warning they could be tracked by Israeli intelligence. A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the pagers were a new brand the group had not used before.
So how in the world did Israel pull this off? As I write this article, there are two main theories that are being floated…
It’s not currently clear exactly how the explosions happened. Two main theories are being bandied about by security experts. Some believe Israel, through its shadow Mossad intelligence agency, managed to send out a mass cyberattack that overheated the lithium ion batteries of the pagers.
Others believe Mossad was able to slip into Hezbollah’s supply chain, sneaking explosive material into the pagers as they were manufactured, which would later be triggered by a mass message to the devices.
It seems unlikely that simply overheating the lithium ion batteries of the pagers could have caused the immense devastation that we witnessed.
At least one news source is claiming that the Mossad was somehow able to implant explosive material inside the devices before they were delivered to Hezbollah…
Sky News Arabia quotes sources saying that today’s large-scale pager attack in Lebanon was possible because the Mossad spy agency got hold of Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terror group. (READ MORE)
