Israel, through its armed cybertentacles, Mossad and Unit 8200, has inaugurated a new form of war of terror that no science-fiction writer had ever imagined. First stage: 3,000 beepers/pagers exploding at the same time throughout Lebanon and Syria. Second stage: hundreds of walkie-talkies exploding in their turn. The holders of these devices and the people close to them were shredded, crippled, blinded and burned. An overheated lithium battery can reach apocalyptic temperatures of a1,000°F (537°C).
Let's get one thing straight right away: no, Mossad did not hijack a stockpile of 5,000 devices intended for Hezbollah in order to insert an explosive charge (some say 3 grams, others 30 grams). He simply hacked the pagers and caused their batteries to overheat explosively. As they brought the device close to their eyes to read the message, the people targeted were often burned in the face, had their eyes gouged out and suffered other grim tragedies.
Why has the fable of explosive charges inserted into batteries been circulated so widely? It's obvious: the industry producing all kinds of devices powered by lithium batteries found itself faced with the prospect of a global catastrophe in a matter of minutes. If you can blow up a pager or a walkie-talkie by hacking into them, you can blow up any connected device: telephone, computer, car, household robot, power station, electric bicycle [I've heard reports of bicycles exploding in garages in Argentina] and...electronic cigarette [as the Ukrainians did with Russian soldiers] etc. etc. etc.
Panic at Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese producer of A924 pagers, but also at all the other manufacturers, from Foxconn (iPhones) to Elon Musk (Tesla). Gold Apollo could think of nothing better than to accuse a poor [well, less poor than me] Sicilian consultant based in Budapest, where she runs a consultancy business (notably for UNESCO), of having manufactured the A924s in question under licence. This was false: the woman, Cristiana Arcidiacono-Borsany, from Catania and a graduate of the London School of Economics, had at most acted as an intermediary between the Taiwanese and the subcontractor, who has not yet been identified.
So, no, Mossad did not hijack the shipment of A924s en route to Lebanon in the middle of the sea between Budapest and Beirut in order to trap 5,000 pagers, put them back in their packaging, put everything back in the container and transport it to Beirut (and by what means?). It simply carried out a relatively simple operation to hack into the devices. Previously, he had engaged in a deception campaign aimed at sowing paranoia in the ranks of the Lebanese fighters, by making them believe that it had taken control of all their telephones, to get them to favour pagers.
The main aim of these acts of war is to strike, mutilate, kill and terrorise, under the skin, in their most intimate part, people and their loved ones, parents, companions and neighbours. The aim is obvious: to crush the Lebanese resistance and send a serious warning to all the components of the Axis of Resistance, in Iran, Iraq and Yemen, and to all those who might be tempted to join it, from Morocco to the Philippines, via Pakistan and India. As for the Palestinians, they had already learnt from their experience and Yahya Sinwar and his companions have not used any connected devices for some time now.
But the ‘Orientals’ are not the only ones being targeted in this apocalyptic piracy operation. “Westerner”s are being targeted too, and not just ordinary people like you and me, but the Big, the Fat, the Powerful, from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, the Drahi's, the Kretinskys and the Chinese-Taiwanese millionaires, the great family of lithium addicts. Israel's message is clear: ‘If you don't do what we tell you to do, we'll blow you up’.
Curtis LeMay, the Yankee air force general who burnt two-thirds of Japanese cities to the ground during the Second World War and who was disappointed by Kennedy's refusal to let him do the same in Cuba, suggested in his 1968 memoirs, that instead of negotiating with Hanoi, the US should ‘take them back to the Stone Age by bombing them’, destroying factories, ports and bridges ‘until we have destroyed all the works of man in North Vietnam’. This is what the Zionihilists are threatening us with today: ‘Us or chaos’.
So it's time, whoever we are, to think seriously about how to get rid of the lithium devices and find (back) other ways of communicating: some suggest telepathy, others the smoke signals of the Sioux. I for one would opt for good old carrier pigeons. Any other suggestions are welcome.
