If we had paid just a little bit more attention in math class, we could have expressed it in a nice formula, but things are what they are, and so a kind of rule of thumb must suffice to describe the reactions to the exploding Hezbollah pagers: those who showed zero empathy for the victims in Israel after October 7 spent the past week mainly trying to reclassify Hezbollah terrorists as innocent civilians.
Which, of course, was not particularly surprising when you think about it, since the Hamas and Houthi terrorists had already been declared to be completely innocent victims of sinister Zionists.
What was interesting was how and where the question raised by a user on X (formerly Twitter) that looked very much like a Russian propaganda account, about what would have happened if a Hezbollah pager owner had been traveling on a crowded airplane and the thing had exploded, spread.
And so everything went according to plan after the tweet, the anti-Israel international was extremely outraged, but as always, it took a whole day for this outrage to spread to the trolls.
But after a year of constant trivialization of terrorism, the ladies and gentlemen in question seem to have run out of steam in terms of arguments, or perhaps the online translation programs were simply overwhelmed. The only interesting thing was how and where the question raised by a user on X (formerly Twitter) that looked very much like a Russian propaganda account, about what would have happened if a Hezbollah pager owner had been traveling in a crowded airplane and the thing had exploded, spread.
Ignorance of facts on television
A few hours later, an employee of the Heinrich Böll Foundation brought it up quite by chance in an interview with Phoenix. Nothing would have happened, was the quick answer from people who know the subject matter to the aircraft question, but as we all know, ignorance of the facts is nothing that should stop you from appearing on television.
Otherwise, there is a break from the columns for now. With a bit of luck, nothing will happen until the deadline for the French edition, and then we can finally talk about the basics of X (formerly Twitter).
