Oh. I misunderstood. There's a very long list of bombings during war that kill 10 or so combatants, and seriously injure a few hundred more combatants, while generally avoiding noncombatant casualties. So long that it would be impossible to exhaustively compile. Do you want one example at random?
Police action is essentially violent because any attempt to resist the police generates a violent response. The violence doesn't go away just because most people cooperate. The violence is in the service of the state so it is essentially political. Anyway, this is a bit of a digression.
Use of traps attached to certain kinds of people or in certain kinds of places is a war crime. Since the pagers are moving around, picked up by kids or placed next to them, taken into various protected places, this could never really have been IHL compliant. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
Pogrom is the correct word (or a correct word anyway) for what Republicans are trying to do. We should be using it more often.
i wrote about the anatomy of a pogrom -- how it starts with blood libel and escalates -- and what we're seeing now in springfield, OH: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Members of Blood Tribe outside City Hall in Springfield, OH How does ethnic violence start, and how does it spread? Who uses it, and for what purpose? The...
Yeah. Some of this can be achieved simply by the discovery of the bombs rather than by their detonation, which can be treated as as lesser benefit weighed against the greater diplomatic costs of committing an action likely to sit poorly with international partners in a new arena of conflict.
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According to this definition virtually all police action and certainly all judicial action resulting in confinement is terrorism. While I certainly have some radical colleagues who would support this conclusion, I don't think it suggests a helpful set of analytical boundaries.
The existence of precision weapons is often framed as a tool allowing for reduction of civilian casualties but that's a sort of backwards logic and convenient misrepresentation, fostered in no small part by a decade of drone war emphasizing "targeted strikes."
Israel is already at war with Hizbullah.
My thought is maybe they triggered by accident, since there's no attempt to exploit the blow to H's comms and command&control. There's minimal strategic benefit here on its own.