Thursday, February 06, 2025
Elder of ZiyonDuring his recent visit to the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a rather bizarre gift: a pair of pagers. One of the pagers was reportedly gold, while the other was a normal one. The gift appears to have been a reference to the recent Israeli operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies rigged with explosives that Israel claimed were targeted at operatives of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.The “pager attack” killed 42 people, including two children and two healthcare workers, while wounding another 2,800 people. The attacks targeted public areas, including cars, streets, and supermarkets, and many of the wounded suffered eye, hand, and brain injuries. Many survivors needed surgery, and some victims went blind or had to have their limbs amputated. One of the attacks killed an 11-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, along with a nurse. At a funeral for some victims, another electronic device attack was carried out by Israel, wounding more people. It’s unknown how many Hezbollah operatives the attack actually killed.
These are outrageous lies. The pager attack killed 12 people and the following walkie-talkie attack killed 30. The only people who owned the pagers are radios were Hezbollah. None of the pagers killed more than one person, and certainly no single explosion killed two children and a healthcare worker.
The vast majority of dead and wounded were Hezbollah members. Most estimates say over 3,000 Hezbollah members were injured. 500 Hezbollah members were sent to Iran alone for surgery and two teams of Iranian doctors flew to Lebanon to treat only Hezbollah members. The pagers were distributed only to Hezbollah members.
Hezbollah didn't admit how many of its members were killed in the two waves of attacks (pagers and mobile radios.) Based on Hezbollah funeral notices, most of the victims of both attacks were Hezbollah fighters.
Months later, Hezbollah admits that the operations were the biggest single blow to its miliary capabilities. A Hezbollah Radwan Forces official interviewed by Al Arabiya said, "the biggest blow Hezbollah suffered was the pagers operation that struck the arteries of his military and logistical bodies, paralyzing its military column after disabling about 3,000 of his cadres and injuring them in their faces, eyes and hands." No conventional military attack on a terror group embedded among civilians imaginable could have been so effective with so little collateral damage.
This Gizmodo article is not about technology - it is pure anti-Israel propaganda that isn't even remotely accurate.
Later in the article, Ropek shows his bias by using the word "zionist" without capitalizing it, which is something only die-hard haters of Israel and Jews do and something that no respectable media outlet would allow. The sentence itself betrays his hate: "There has long been an alliance between the zionist movement and evangelical Christians, who believe that Israel is the holy land and an important component in ushering in the apocalypse."
The only other time Gizmodo used the word "zionist" non-capitalized was when it quoted a white supremacist.
Looking at previous articles by Ropek we see this very curious picture choice of Elon Musk:
There are thousands of wire service photos of Elon Musk, and for some reason a Gizmodo article that is highly critical of him chooses a photo from two weeks earlier, during Trump's inauguration, where he is talking with a kippah-wearing Jew. (Searching for that photo, nearly all media outlets cropped out the kippah because it was obviously irrelevant to the stories. But not Gizmodo.)
It hardly seems like a random choice. And it makes the pager story look like it is motivated by something more than just anti-Zionism.
I would consider that pretty funny of it wasn't for the other things the article said.
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