One day, in the middle of Israel’s war against Hamas in the South, the news spread rapidly that Israel had pulled off what seemed like a most stunning achievement. In one fell swoop, Israel seemed to have decapitated nearly the entire leadership of the Hizbullah, Israel’s massive threat from the North. This was accomplished through years and years of clandestine activities in Europe and Lebanon. Fake companies were created, and Israel was basically tracking the leadership of the Hizbullah for years, while retaining the option to create havoc within the Hizbullah at the push of a button.
150,000 rockets were facing Israel from Lebanon. Hizbullah basically had a state within a state, for the express reason of attacking Israel. Israelis all knew that at some point, Israel would have to face an enormous barrage from the North. Every new building in Israel, built over the last few decades, has a bomb room that is made of solid thick cement in order to handle the expected barrage.
Nobody could have imagined that without a massive invasion, Israel would be able to largely debilitate and weaken the Hizbullah into becoming a shell of its own self. But that is exactly what Israel did. Using a James Bond like techniques, Israel used a trojan horse style attack. The Hizbullah was largely destroyed from within. But even more impressively, the impact of the beeper attack on the Hizbullah has left thousands of Hizbullah operatives with large blemishes that will label them for the rest of their life as Hizbullah terrorists. It was indeed an historic attack that has changed the trajectory of war and peace in the Middle East.