Daily review 18/09/2024

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    I heard the Hezbollah pagers were shipped from Taiwan. Is it safe to assume Taiwan has now entered the Middle East conflict?

    Risky. Let’s see if it pays off.

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          18 September 2024 at 8:28 pm

          • Israel's Mossad spy agency placed explosives in thousands of Hezbollah pagers before they detonated across Lebanon, multiple reports say
          • A senior Lebanese security source tells Reuters the pagers were brought into the country months ago
          • Separately, Israeli and US sources say Israel detonated the pagers earlier than planned, fearing that Hezbollah had become aware of the plan
          • The pagers seemed to carry a Taiwanese brand – but Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo denies any involvement, saying the pagers were made by a Hungarian firm it signed a deal with.

          https://www.bbc.com/news

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          Some other fella…

          "For Israel to embed an explosive trigger within the new batch of pagers, they would have likely needed access to the supply chain of these devices," said Brussels-based military and security analyst Elijah Magnier.

          "Israeli intelligence has infiltrated the production process, adding an explosive component and remote triggering mechanism into the pagers without raising suspicion," he said, raising the prospect the third party which sold the devices could have been an "intelligence front" set up by Israel for the purpose.

          https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/09/israeli-supply-chain-infiltration-likely-behind-hezbollah-pager-blasts-analysts

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            From your link:

            French defence expert Pierre Servent said the latest action against Hezbollah would help Israeli intelligence services restore their reputation, which was badly dented by the October 7 attack.

            "The series of operations conducted over the past few months marks their big comeback, with a desire for deterrence and a message: 'we messed up but we're not dead,'" he told AFP.

            So, Mossad had the pip because Hamas attacked the West bank killed 1000 plus people and took 251 others hostage, so they have taken out their revenge on Hezbollah.

            A chance to re-establish their wounded reputation? Good grief.

            So:

            where to from here?

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