a lot of people claim "we will strike fear in the hearts of our enemies".

Israel makes them quietly shit their pants instead.

They did certainly not make them shit their pants, what a childish idea.

They'll cause a big backlash. And the best they have are again suicide bombers in Israeli cities

eh, they were launching rockets into Israel daily, and now they walk with a limp and will freeze every time something beeps. I count that as a win.

no, there won't be suicide bombers in Israel again. they've gotten much better at finding the rats - see original article.

I fail really to see the difference between Hezbollah lunching rockets into Israel and Israel's pager bombs. Except the latter are pretty well targeted.

Frankly I believe that the people complaining pagers wouldn't if Hezbollah had managed to do the same to Israel. They'd celebrate it. So really they're just unhappy that the team they're emotionally invested in is getting shellacked.

There is nothing unique or special about Israel in that respect…

I love that your comment says this kind of striking terror in the enemy is completely unremarkable while the other says no such thing happened!

It’s not unremarkable, or even very common. But lots of countries do this besides Israel (targeted strikes to eliminate targets and remind would-be targets that it’s hard to get out of reach). It’s true that they tend to be on the high-tech side compared to say Iran, and that democracies most of the time at least try to make it look legal.

I disagree with the other post you mention, FWIW.