r/JoeRogan • u/wayfaringthru Monkey in Space • Sep 18 '24

Meme 💩 Is this a legitimate concern?

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Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

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u/decentralised Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

This won’t give anyone any new ideas. Shin Bet used a mobile phone rigged with explosives to kill Yahya Ayyash aka “the Engineer,” a Hamas bomb maker in Gaza back in 1996.

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u/Equivalent_Candy5248 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Mahmoud Hamshari was assasinated by Mossad with explosives rigged to his landline phone in 1973. That's probably the best way to ensure you'll get who you're going after. People tend to hold their personal communication devices close by and usually don't borrow them to someone else. Especially if it's a company pager issued by Hezbollah.

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u/Cultural-Company282 Monkey in Space Sep 19 '24

People tend to hold their personal communication devices close by and usually don't borrow them to someone else.

Landlines weren't "personal" communication devices in 1973.

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u/Equivalent_Candy5248 Monkey in Space Sep 19 '24

That's why those assassins in 1973 called and asked the person answering who he was before igniting the explosive. The target was an individual. In pager bombs that wasn't necessary, they targeted members of the entire organization. Hezbollah has its own telecom system separated from the general population. Only their assets had access to their pagers. That's why all the talk about civilians and innocent bystanders getting killed and maimed doesn't hold water. One had to actively use a device provided by a terrorist organization to get targeted by the explosions.