The Martyrs of Hamas

"Join us as we march to honour the martyrs of the past year -- and the past 76 years -- who gave everything for their land, their dignity, and their liberation."

"For Liberation. For our martyrs. For our people. For our land. For Palestine."

Palestinian Youth Movement

The Palestinian Youth Movement is planning a rally outside the Israeli consulate in Montreal on Oct. 7, the anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel. Photo by Palestinian Youth Movement / Instagram

"It is beyond disgusting that anyone would celebrate the events of October 7 and diminish the murders and injuries that happened that day and the hostages taken, some of whom are still in captivity."

Anthony Housefather, Liberal MP, Montreal Mount Royal riding

"Yet again, pro-Hamas groups are planning to celebrate the brutal massacre and terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7, this time on the anniversary of the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust."

"They aim to fill the streets with hate. This is not just a celebration of terror or antisemitism; it is an attack on democracy and our Canadian values."

"This should serve as yet another warning that the unchecked hate and incitement in our streets have gone too far. On October 7, these same groups distributed candies to celebrate murder and rape."

Eta Yudin, vice-president, Quebec chapter, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

"On October 8, 2023, students saw their peers celebrating Hamas as 'resistance fighters'."

"A year later, our community cannot even have October 7 to peacefully mourn. With protests and 'days of action' planned for October 7, 2024, students are wary of the threats posed by these agitators."

"Despite these circumstances, our community will come together in unity."

Hillel Montreal

As the time draws ever closer to the one-year mark of the horrendous events of October 7 of last year --when thousands of Palestinian terrorists flooded across the border from Gaza into Israel, led by Hamas on a mission to terrorize, threaten, pillage, destroy, rape, mutilate and slaughter Israeli citizens in a sadistic savagery unimaginable to normal decent humanity -- a time to reflect, to mourn and to find comfort in each other's sorrow within the Jewish community is once again confronted by the presence of the same maleficent hatred from a source in Canada.

Palestinians and other Muslims who have made a place for themselves in Canada -- bringing with them the venomous hatred for Jews that permeates the Middle East where Israel is a tiny enclave of Jewish life on the very ancestral geography that ancient Judea sat upon, surrounded by hostile majority-Muslim countries -- have contaminated Canada with their brand of vicious threats and intimidation. Normal human beings would blanch at the level of savagery revealed by the October 7 atrocities. Within the Muslim community in Canada it is interpreted as 'noble resistance'.

Resistance to the presence of a Jewish state sitting upon its heritage geography on land the Islamic majority feels has been consecrated to Islam through the impact of violent upheaval in the history of Islam's religiously-inspired conquest. In Montreal, a group of terrorist-supporting 'activists' have planned to honour the 'martyrs' of Hamas on the anniversary of the very day that Hamas butchered 1,200 Jews and took 250 infants, elderly, women and men hostage to Gaza.

On an Instagram post their planned triumphalist march in honour of the Hamas terrorists whose exploits in causing human suffering is quite unequalled in the annals of human depravity, calls on like-thinkers and their supporters to join them. The rally is meant to celebrate the medievalism of a culture, society, heritage and religion that calls for the faithful to engage in jihad against the enemy, encompassing all those who fail to submit to Islam.

Montreal has experienced more than its share of antisemitic events in the past year, with Jewish businesses vandalized, Jewish community centers, synagogues and parochial schools being shot at and fire-bombed. Where university students were intimidated by antisemitic mobs of pro-Hamas champions on local campuses. Jewish community leaders have appealed to provincial and federal leaders for steps to be taken to protect Canadian Jews ... and most often to no avail.

 

The Palestinian Youth Movement distinguished itself following the October 7 atrocities by organizing public 'protests' in support of Palestinians and Palestinian terror, crowding city streets across Canada with support for Hamas terrorism, a group on Canada's official terror list, calling for Intifada, chanting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!", shouting for Jews to return to Europe, and recommending a 'Final Solution', displaying their fascist sympathies.

From Montreal to Edmonton, Calgary to Vancouver, the group that calls itself "a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide", that supports the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another banned terror group in Canada, has organized loud, threatening marches, harassing Jewish neighbourhoods, planning 'protests' outside synagogues and Jewish museums, even Mount Sinai Hospital.

Their presence in Canada is that of a hostile, disruptive, threatening, racist mob of psychological terrorists, more suited to the confines of Islamic-majority countries than free Democracies like Canada. Yet the reality is that most Islamic countries have no wish to host these hate-dominated inciters to violence, even as the West tolerates their presence as a symbol of its wide acceptance of all manner of people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions and cultures.

Their objective is that of the Islamic Republic of Iran, of its proxy terrorist militias, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and the many Iran-loyal Shia militias in Syria and Iraq whose goal is the eradication of Israel and the death of Jews worldwide. Their very presence as a group force of lethal hostile intentions is a direct assault on civilizational mores. Their countries of origin will not tolerate their presence, but the generous, civilized West will, and does, and the greater their numbers gather in the West, the greater the danger to the oblivious West.

"Canada has seen far too many displays of hate, violence, and intimidation."

"This is why the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has called for amendments to Canada's anti-terror legislation to include the glorification of terrorism."

"It is time to stop the spread of hate and antisemitism."

Eta Yudin, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Poland's Holocaust Distortion

"Unfortunately, the politics of memory pursued and enforced in Poland are nowadays best described as Holocaust distortion."

"Unlike Holocaust deniers of yesteryear, states, institutions and people engaged in Holocaust distortions do not deny the factuality of the Jewish catastrophe. They freely admit that the Germans murdered six million European Jews."

"What they refuse to acknowledge, however, is that their people, their nation, had something to do with the vent. That their ancestors took part in the German genocidal project."

"They're using them [Auschwitz and Treblinka] as platforms of Polish martyrdom. And I find that obscene."

Jan Grabowski, professor of Holocaust history, University of Ottawa

A group of Jewish Poles surrender to German soldiers after the collapse of resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Photograph: anonymous/AP

 

"Whitewash: Poland and the Jews", published in The Jewish Quarterly publication recently, authored by Professor Grabowski, is a strong argument for replacing the government of Poland as curator of the Auschwitz site as a memorial to the Holocaust, to avoid further "distortion" through Polish nationalism of the site and the history it reflects. The complicity of individual Poles in the slaughter of Jews during the Holocaust has seen the light of day through Professor Grabowski's previous publications.

His focus is the complicity of many Poles during the Holocaust in the mass killing of Jews. Of the six million Jews that perished during the Second World War in the Nazis' diabolical plot to destroy world Jewry, the vast majority of the deaths happened to have taken place in Poland. The government of Poland a few years back ferociously fought against the commonplace linking of Poland with the death camps of Nazi Germany. To call them 'Polish death camps', the Polish government raged, defied  history and reality; they were 'German death camps located in Poland'.

Guilty Germany, innocent Poland. The world has since acquiesced largely, although Israel's government was not comfortable with that distinction. It was Poland's way to clear itself completely of any hint of complicity in the Nazi Germany death machinery. Although, like France's Vichy period, official Poland under like German occupation, reacted similarly, since Polish officials, like those in France, found it expedient and perhaps not entirely fully foreign to their own beliefs and traditions that Jews were expendable.

Six extermination camps were established by the Nazi SS in Poland; they were -- Auschwitz, Treblinka, Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdanek and Belzec -- five of the six million European Jews murdered during the Holocaust years met their death in those six camps. All but a fraction of Poland's prewar Jewish community perished; just over three million. Infamously, when some Polish survivors attempted to return to their post-war villages to reclaim their property, they were met with violent hostility, threatened and some were killed.

Professor Grabowski is of the considered opinion that the very fact of Poland having hosted those death camps, the site of the vast majority of Jewish annihilation, imposes on the country "a unique obligation of memory"; a duty to care for those places commemorating the Holocaust. Unfortunately Auschwitz and Treblinka, he charges, are being used by Holocaust distortionists in valorizing Polish gentiles who did help Jews, at the same time preferring to be oblivious of those who were helpful in assisting the Germans to wipe out Poland's Jewish population.

Blame has been shifted in its entirety to Nazi Germany. Those same distortionists conflate Polish prisoners of war and those Poles used for slave labour, as equal in number and outcome with those of the Jewish internees slated for immediate death. The extermination camps were exclusive to Jews in Auschwitz II and Treblinka II. The slave labour camps were primarily the destination of Poles who had the opportunity of outliving their onerous labour conditions and confinement.

According to Professor Grabowski's historical investigations and reckoning, about 200,000 Jews were killed as a result of direct or indirect actions of their Polish, gentile neighbours. Polish nationalists loathe this historian of the Holocaust. The Polish League Against Defamation views him as their favourite target. Airing the complicity of some Poles in the slaughter of Jews insults Poland and diminishes its gallant wartime history and its people's suffering.

The good professor was introduced to his professional life's work as a Holocaust historian entirely by chance, following his unrelated search of Polish archives, discovering a cache of German wartime records revealing new issues on the Jewish experience in Poland. Yad Vashem awarded the professor its International Book Prize for his 2014 book, Hunt for Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.

As a co-editor of the publication Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland, he and his co-author Barbara Engelking were ordered by a Warsaw court ruling to apologize for writing that a Polish villager gave up the village's Jews to the Nazis. That was a decision that failed to withstand the test of time; overturned on appeal.

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"Nowhere else in Europe was the Holocaust so complete, so total; nowhere else did the destruction of the Jewish people proceed with such nightmarish perfection."

"Given the apparent unwillingness of the Polish authorities to act as honest custodians of the memory of the Holocaust, perhaps the time has come to place these sites under European, United Nations or other international jurisdictions."

"Auschwitz and Treblinka could become places in which humanity can reflect unhindered on one of the greatest catastrophes in history, on its own tragic heritage, and its own moral condition, past and present."

Jan Grabowski

Disentitling Israel at the International Level

"Given the current circumstances on the ground, we believe that this resolution is not a step in the right direction, as it risks potentially sowing further divisions."

"[The resolution] fails to address the immense security challenges Israel faces, including Hamas's use of the Gaza Strip as a launching pad for its rampage of killing of Israelis, while systematically using the Palestinian civilians as human shields."

"[This] assembly has once again failed to acknowledge this issue with today's vote."

Czech Republic Ambassador to the UN Jakub Kulhanek

The final result of a vote during the emergency session on the legal consequences of Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territories is shown at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Sept 18, 2024. (PHOTO / AFP)

Israel, that tiny sliver of land that the world community gave its permission to allow Jews to call its homeland, representing a fraction of its historical ancestral land base and which has been forced by its neighbours -- furious at its presence in land they claim is consecrated to a divine entity of a much later entry to the pantheon of the world's religions -- to militarily respond whenever a neighbouring country or irregular terrorist militia feels impelled to challenge its presence, suffers the ongoing indignity of UN accusations of human rights abuses.

 

It has been made manifestly evident that any time Israel responds to the never-ending violent assaults from its neighbours by militarily protecting itself and its citizens from their deadly force, the international community takes umbrage at the most technologically sophisticated, moral armed force in the world daring to project its determination to foil every such attack's purpose; its destruction. Israel's drubbing of its enemies when it has been provoked beyond endurance is never applauded as just, but consequentially condemned as 'just too much'. 

Israel, unique enough as the homeland of the world's great dispersal of Jews throughout history, and a modern giant of technology and innovation whose inventiveness in every sphere of human endeavour gifts itself and the world at large with forward looking human enterprise -- enriching science, medicine, agriculture, technology and education -- still becomes an object of accusatory slander; that classic syndrome of doing everything right, interpreted as disproportionately engaged in defending itself.

The United Nations General Assembly saw fit to pass 14 resolutions in condemnation of the Jewish state, fully double the entire number of condemnations of all other countries combined, in 2023 alone. Global human rights violators barely register for a chiding by the UN. Rather, countries like Iran, Venezuela, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Syria are either entirely bypassed for censure for their human rights violations, or face a single resolution of condemnation in an entire year.

There were 140 resolutions raised against Israel between 2015 and 2022 where the General Assembly focused on Israel; a number more than double passed against all other countries in the world combined. That states committing human rights violations barely risk a nod from the UN is commonplace. For the second time in the year that is moving toward the anniversary date of October 7 reflecting a sadistically savage pogrom by Islamist terrorists against Israel, 124 countries of the General Assembly voted in favour of the latest resolution, with 14 against and 43 abstaining.

The call was for Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza in its pursuit of the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered over a thousand Israeli civilians, raped and mutilated Israeli girls and women before murdering them relentlessly, destroyed farming villages, setting homes on fire with entire families burning to death, and taking 240 infants, elderly, women, men, soldiers hostage back to Gaza. Many of the hostages were tortured, many murdered, and all have been kept in inhumane conditions and subjected to violations of humanity.

At no time has a resolution been tabled before the General Assembly demanding the dismantling of Palestinian terrorist groups, requiring their weapons to be set aside, that the hostages be released back to Israel, and that hostilities on the part of the terrorists cease and desist. Israel only, in its resolve to destroy the death cult that continues to ravage Israel with the clear intention of murdering as many Jews as possible -- anywhere, is held to account and judged inadequate in its response to the nonsensical and obviously biased opinion of the UN. A UN which would never impose retaliatory restrictions on any other country that had suffered such a massive loss.

Conflicts of massive offence are treated as inconvenient incidents, but Israel's right of self-defense is placed under the microscope of special 'contexts'. Terrorist entities calling openly for the destruction of Israel and the concurrent death of Jews are given no notice; it is Israel which must withdraw and make reparations. Countries like Canada which at one time could be relied upon to vote against such unjust resolutions now prefer to withhold their vote as though a national morality of 'neutrality' reigned.

Whereas a handful of courageous and morally decisive countries like the Czech Republic, clearly understanding the level of deception and hypocrisy involved will have none of it, and hold the United Nations and its anti-Israel cliques to account for their jaundiced hateful interpretation of a situation they cannot bring themselves to condemn, to the point of supporting the right of existence of a member nation which has endured the unendurable by those who wish it ill.

 

"In my speech at the General Assembly, I condemned the hypocrisy and bias in the United Nations, which since October 7 has passed two resolutions that failed to mention Hamas and its responsibility for the massacre last October."

"I reiterated that anyone who supports this circus is a collaborator. Every vote you cast in support of this circus fuels the violence."

"This empty show is not just an insult to the victims of October 7. It is an insult to the hostages."

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon

Enforcing Neutrality In Countering Antisemitism

"Today's targeting of Hezbollah operatives was brilliant. It struck a major blow against a terror group that has fired thousands of rockets against civilians all while the useless UN mission in Lebanon stands by. There is a price to pay #Hezbollah #FAFO."

"There has been significant misunderstanding of my use of the word 'brilliant'. The loss of innocent lives in any conflict is abhorrent & must be avoided. As a retired national security & intel leader, my use of that word was about the complexity & sophistication of an operation."

"With the rise in hate, prejudice and exclusion, we need to address the specific challenges Jewish students, faculty and staff face."

Artur Wilczynsky, University of Ottawa special adviser on antisemitism

 

"His mandate includes studying antisemitism and advising the university's senior leadership on strategies to combat it and other forms of racism, discrimination and harassment to promote a safer campus for all."

"The special adviser's role includes serving as a liaison between members of the Jewish community and the university administration, and providing his vast expertise as a resource to faculty, students and staff."

University of Ottawa President Jacques Fremont

Artur Wilczynski was appointed antisemitism adviser at the University of Ottawa June 25, 2024, and resigned from the position on Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by University of Ottawa/Handout

 

In response to the news on Tuesday that thousands of communications devices in the use of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon and into Syria, wounding thousands and killing a handful of Hezbollah operatives, along with a few unfortunate civilians, the University of Ottawa's appointed antisemitism adviser spoke of his personal reaction to the event, informed by his professional identity as a man involved for years in national intelligence. A reaction which alluded to the technical achievement of pagers suddenly morphing into surprise IEDs. With subsequent results.

 

Posting on X in the immediacy of the news of exploding pagers reducing the numbers of terrorist operatives that Hezbollah could count upon in its war against Israeli civilians forced to relocate in their tens of thousands as a result of hundreds of rockets raining down on Northern Israel in a concerted effort to aid another Canada-listed terror group, Hamas in Gaza, which was reaping the consequences of its deadly savage pogrom in southern Israel, his admiration at the technical initiative proficiency of Israelis was expressed as "brilliant".

That comment on the exploding pagers: "Today's targeting of Hezbollah operatives was brilliant. It struck a major blow against a terror group that has fired thousands of rockets against civilians all while the useless UN mission Lebanon stands by" triggered a predicable backlash. An observation that is in and of itself a reflection of reality. But one that sat poorly in the estimation of those who find it in themselves to have a special place reserved in their hearts for terrorist murderers as long as it is Jews/Israelis that are in their sights. A social-media backlash was ignited.

And thus, the perfect antisemitism adviser to the university came under the death-of-a-thousand-cuts lashing of public criticism, emanating from very specific sources reeking with antisemitism and from those whose progressive-woke sensibilities were tweaked in outrage. Leading this longtime public servant, former ambassador to Norway, with his unique background in foreign policy, intelligence, security and defence, to apologize gracefully, and to resign from his advisory position with the University of Ottawa. 

"I believe in accountability."

"My posts on the Hezbollah/Israel war caused harm & affected my ability to help combat antisemitism at U[university] of Ottawa."

"My intent in sharing is irrelevant when it is clear many were hurt by them. I apologize." 

"Because unlike you people [his critics], I don't believe in re-writing history [by removing the offending post]. I did write it and it should be part of the record. It's called transparency."

Artur Wilczynsky

With his master's degree in international relations and conflict studies, Wilczynski became the first federal government-wide executive champion for the Jewish Public Servants Network. His family had arrived in Canada in 1969 as refugees from Communist Poland. According to the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship, Mr. Wilczynski is the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors. As a federal public servant in  Canada he was director general of international affairs and order policy at Public Safety Canada.

He was, as well, assistant deputy minister for equity diversity and inclusion at the Communications Security Establishment. And it is the equity, diversity and inclusion component that is partly responsible for the avalanche of criticism his post on the 'brilliance' of the Israeli plot to neutralize the terrorist effectiveness of a death cult-group in the Middle East occasioned. 

His more latterly role from which he has now removed himself was to advise senior university authorities on strategies to combat antisemitism and other forms of racism at the university. A position for which his experience, studies, and professionalism made him the perfect candidate. During which time he overlooked the necessity/expectation that he understand spontaneous utterances readily construed as condemnation of terrorists and admiration for spectacular successes in eliminating their threats could not be countenanced.

 

He will surely be missed.

"In his short time in the role, Artur Wilczynski made a large impact, and we're thankful for his service to the Jewish and university communities."

"Unfortunately, reflecting the problem, there is a large cohort who will attack and smear anyone who defends the Jewish community, and journalists and politicians across Canada are beginning to experience this themselves."

"The role of adviser on antisemitism is critical to fighting hate at the university. Our message to the university is, find a replacement as soon as possible."

David Sachs, community relations and antisemitism specialist, Jewish Federation of Ottawa

Academic Disapprobation : Calling it Like It Is

"It's symbolic. To me it's a mark of great distinction. I was very proud to get the honorary degree. The fact I'm willing to give it back to signify my discomfort with the university indicates how much my discomfort is."

"The participation of many faculty members in the encampment in defiance of university policy coupled with the lack of consequences has been, in my view, shameful. I am profoundly disappointed in my university."

"I no longer wish to have the distinction of holding a University of Toronto honorary degree."

"I do not take this action lightly since I know that since the first honorary degree was granted by the University of Toronto in 1950, an honorary degree granted by it has never been returned."

Dr. Arnold Aberman, former dean of Medicine, University of Toronto

Then-Governor General David Johnston, right, awards the Order of Canada to Arnold Aberman at Rideau Hall on Nov. 4, 2011. Photo by Chris Roussakis /QMI Agency

 

Dr. Arnold Aberman, professor emeritus, former dean, faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

In protest against the University of Toronto's handling of the anti-Israel protest encampment, the former medical school dean of the U. of T. took the unprecedented path of returning his honorary degree. His "profound disappointment" that the university administration issued no clear statement that "what's going on is unacceptable", led him to take that determined moral decision.

The enforced exclusion of "Zionists" from the encampment set up on the school's central lawn was an obvious term meant to identify "Jews", and he pointed to that in particular. "You saw the signs, anti-Zionist signs, denying entry. There's no right to stop people." 

It was "too late" after the university obtained a legal injunction against the protest several weeks into the occupation when the court-ordered deadline was imminent. "It's never too late to do the right thing. I think they should have done it earlier." Which led to his decision to return  his honorary Doctor of Laws, in his possession since 2015, in recognition of outstanding service to the university.

Serving as dean of the University of Toronto's faculty of medicine, as well as promoting relations with health-care institutions in the administration, he was, as well, a key creator of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University in Sudbury, Ontario. According to his Order of Canada citation, Dr. Aberman "contributed to the advancement of medicine for more than 30 years."

He faulted the university in his letter returning the honour, to University of Toronto President Meric Gertler for its "failure of the school to protect its Jewish and non-Jewish students". The final straw arrived for Professor Aberman when he saw a recently published online list of students and faculty identified at the encampment protest by an activist group. "I consider them antisemites", he stated.

Dr. Arnold Aberman, Convocation, 2015 Honourary U.of T. Degree  U.of T

Panic in Lebanon, Syria, Iran

"We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians."

"Anyone who has a device take out the battery now!"

"Turn off your phones, switch it to airplane mode."

"Israel will get its just punishment."

Hezbollah

Lebanese army soldiers stand guard near a hospital in Beirut on Sept. 17. Photo: Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images

 

The 'enemy' got fed up with terrorist Hezbollah sending hundreds of rockets into northern Israel. Since October 8, the day following the Hamas terrorists' infiltration of southern Israel and the following pogrom of mass rape, torture, mutilation, slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians, in sympathy with Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets into Israel. Necessitating the evacuation of tens of thousands of Israelis. And burning acres after acres of Israeli farmland and forests. 

If that is not a declaration of war, what is? Hoping to squeeze Israel in a pincer grip, north and south, with the Islamic Republic of Iran, working its puppetry strings on its terrorist proxies, the Israeli military has been forced to fight and root out Hamas terrorists throughout Gaza, hiding in their labyrinth of tunnels while leaving ordinary Gazans to hope they will not become civilian casualties of a war their government launched on their neighbour.

For its part Hamas has realized an amazing victory in gaining the support not only of Arab/Muslim expatriates living in the West, but that of non-Arab/Muslims portraying Israel as the aggressor, forcing death on innocent Palestinians. Since the United Nations General Assembly promulgates that impression it is hardly surprising that members of the general public internationally, deep in the theology of Critical Race Theory are complacent about visualizing Jews/Israel as 'settler/colonialists' and the Palestinians innocent bystanders fighting for a 'state' of their own.

Hours following the Israeli internal security agency foiling an effort by Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior Israeli security office with the use of a planted explosive device, remotely detonated, a wave of explosions rocked Lebanon. New/old technology pagers that had been distributed to Hezbollah operatives were triggered from a wide distance to simultaneously explode. Wherever they were, in operatives' backpacks or their trouser pockets. With credibly unfortunate results.

Hezbollah fumed about 'war crimes' as it announced 2,750 of its terrorist operatives wounded, some critically, as hospitals were swamped with urgent admissions. A handful of Hezbollah terrorists were killed. And, unfortunately, as so often happens when war disrupts life for ordinary civilians, a handful of those too, were impacted. Emergency rooms were looking after patients with chunks blown off their legs, or missing hands.

Messing with Israel will do that. After all, it is the most technologically advanced country in the region; likely in the world. Necessity is the mother of invention. Anticipating a war in the near future with Hezbollah, Israeli technicians were able to develop communication devices - pagers and walkie-talkies - that could share battery space with a few grams of explosives, that would be triggered by a remote-location electrical current.

Guardian graphic. Source: Gold Apollo, Guardian research