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Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah by orwin on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:42AM (#41858407)
Yeah, it's the definition of a terror attack.

The really bad part is how lauded the Mossad was for it's 'precision' by the western media. Geneva convention violations, random children killed because Hezbollah militant were shopping/walking nearby, really 'precise'...

On the other hand killing only 5 children for two hundred opposants, and not at least twice as much is proof that Mossad is a hundred of time more precise than tsahal. But maybe that's a low bar.

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah by tptacek on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:04PM (#41861888)
A terror attack definitionally targets civilian noncombatants, deliberately.
Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah by aspenmayer on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:05AM (#41867733)
Not necessarily. The attack on USS Cole is considered a terror attack despite its explicitly military target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah by orwin on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:06AM (#41869299)
No, a terror attack is an attack that create a fear amongst noncombatants in order to push political objectives.

Easy example: Attacking a hospital that healed an enemy combatant is a terror attack, even if you missile is very precise and only kill the combatant and people sharing his room. You didn't aim for civilians, but your goal with this attack is to coerce civilians (doctors and nurses here) into refusing to heal combatant again, using fear. That's the definition. In both the French dictionary, and britannica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism).

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:49PM (#41863104)
> it's the definition of a terror attack

No, it's not. We don't have to twist the definitions of prohibited acts of war for a war to be deplorable. Legal warfare is still horrendous.

> random children killed because Hezbollah militant were shopping/walking nearby, really 'precise'

To be clear, if those same targets were hit conventionally--by air-launched missile, for instance--that would somehow be better?

Re:Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah by orwin on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:59AM (#41869263)
Yes it is, see https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism

> terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.

They want to push the non-Chia in Lebanon against the Chia, probably hoping for an organisation like "Phalanges Libanaises" to come back and restart the civil war. If a new civil war start, it will be the second Israel deliberatly started in lebanon (yeah, the "Phalangistes" did the massacre, but the Mossad actually planned it and gave the target (mostly palestinians btw). This time it will be harder though.