Don’t mess with Israel, especially with its spy agency – Mossad. If you attack Israel or worse – raping, murdering, and destroying Israeli people – like how Hamas terrorists did on Oct 7, 2023, Israel will definitely retaliate. They don’t play poker and they don’t bluff like the Americans. Even the ISIS understood this, hence the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) dared not attack Israel.

 

When Hamas leaders like Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh attacked the Jewish state, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping more than 250, including soldiers, women, children and elderly, thousands of ignorant Palestinians were dancing and celebrating on the street as if they had won a major battle. But the war had just begun, and they had no idea what was about to hit them.

 

As far back as November, 2023, war cabinet minister Benny Gantz already announced that Israel will hunt down Hamas leaders “in Gaza and around the world.” Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had declared – “Every Hamas member is a dead man.“Israel had given enough warnings. Yet, Iranian’s ring of arrogant proxies did not get the message.

 

 

Pro-Palestinian around the world were chanting and singing “from the river to the sea”, mostly had no idea what it meant, as the Israeli forces retaliated with relentless bombing of Gaza to flush out Hamas terrorists who were cowardly hiding under the tunnel and used innocent Palestinians as human shield. Many so-called analysts did not think Israel could win the war, let alone kill Sinwar.  

 

Yet, today, Sinwar, Haniyeh and every Hamas top commander is dead. Two-thirds of Gaza’s buildings have been either damaged or destroyed, leaving behind 42 million tonnes of rubble. Having sent Gaza back to the Stone Age, Israel shifted focus to Lebanon. From its ground invasion of southern Lebanon on the night of 30 September 2024, it would take only about 2 months for Isreal to defeat Hezbollah.

 

Defeated, terrorist organization Hezbollah – the crown jewel of Iran’s network – was begging for a ceasefire, something unthinkable just a few months ago. The killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah who initially thought to be invincible, was the ultimate game changer that will change “the balance of power in the region”. The proof – Assad lost power without firing a single shot.

But the destruction of Iranian’s “Ring of Fire” around the tiny nation of Israel actually started on September 17, after the Israeli spy agency Mossad launched one of the most daring and sophisticated deceptions in the history of counterintelligence – the pager plot, a modern day version of the Trojan horse. Mossad created a bomb in a pocket – and tricked Hezbollah fighters into unwittingly wearing these devices on their bodies.

 

This has nothing to do with pro-Jewish or anti-Palestine, but rather the real game of the big boys at the “High Table”. It’s not a coincidence that Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who had foolishly promoted himself as the best friend of Haniyeh and Hamas, is now being protected with a security guard equipped with a gigantic wireless device jammer wherever Anwar goes after the exploding pagers and walkie-talkies 3 months ago.

 

The burning question is how did Mossad pull off the incredible plot? In an interview with CBS “60 Minutes”, two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents shared new details about the deadly operation, which started 10 years ago, designed to target Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria. Below was the interview by journalist Lesley Stahl with Michael and Gabriel (not their real name).

Lesley Stahl: You were something called a case officer. What exactly is a case officer?

Michael: A case officer spearheads the operation. He is the commander of the operation. The operation started 10 years ago. Not with pagers, but with weaponizing walkie-talkies. A walkie-talkie was a weapon just like a bullet or a missile or a mortar.

Lesley Stahl: So a walkie-talkie bomb?

Michael: A walkie-talkie bomb. Inside the battery, there is an explosive device.

Lesley Stahl: And that was the invention? To put an explosive device that couldn’t be detected into the battery?

Michael: Correct. Made in Israel.

Lesley Stahl: At Mossad?

Michael: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: As I understand it, these walkie-talkies went into a tactical vest that a soldier would put on, and then this would go in the pocket.

Michael: Correct.

Lesley Stahl: Near the heart.

Michael: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: So Israel sold this device to Hezbollah. Hezbollah paid for this weapon that was to be used against them.

Michael: They got a good price. A “good price” that couldn’t be too low or they’d be suspicious. In the end, Hezbollah bought over 16,000 of these exploding walkie-talkies that Israel then didn’t activate for 10 years, until three months ago.

Lesley Stahl: How did you convince Hezbollah to buy this?

Michael: Well obviously they didn’t know that they were buying it from Israel.

Lesley Stahl: Who did they buy it from or think they were buying it from?

Michael: We have an incredible array of possibilities of creating foreign companies that have no way of being traced back to Israel. Shell companies over shell companies to affect the supply chain to our favour. We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors, and the world is our stage.

 

But walkie-talkies are only worn in battle, so Mossad began developing a new device that Hezbollah fighters would have in their pockets all the time – a pager. In 2022, Gabriel (not his real name) and his team started developing the second phase of the operation – the booby-trapped pagers. He found out that Hezbollah was buying pagers from this company in Taiwan, called Gold Apollo

 

Gabriel: A pager is almost obsolete around the world, but Hezbollah still using it.

Lesley Stahl: This is the pager that Hezbollah was using so it’s very sleek. It’s very shiny. And it certainly can fit in a pocket. So what did you do to change this to make it into a bomb?

Gabriel: So to make it into a bomb, we have to enlarge it a little bit in order to put explosives inside. But not too much. Using dummies, Mossad conducted tests with the pager in a padded glove to calibrate the grams of explosive needed to be just enough to hurt the fighter – but not the person next to him.

Gabriel: If we push the button the only one that will get injured is the terrorist himself. Even if his wife or his daughter will be just next to him, he’s the only one that’s going to be harmed.

Lesley Stahl: Did you test for that?

Gabriel: Yes. We test everything triple, double, multiple times in order to make sure there is minimum damage.

Lesley Stahl: Could you use it as a tracking device? Did it have intelligence capability?

Gabriel: Oh, no. This is a very stupid device by nature. This is the reason they’re using it. There’s almost no way how to tap it. It’s only receiving messages and – several grams of explosive.

Mossad also tested numerous ring tones to find one that sounded urgent enough to make someone pull the pager out of their pocket. And they tested how long it takes a person to answer a pager – on average seven seconds. But how did Mossad convince Hezbollah to switch to this bulkier pager? Apparently, they used false ads on YouTube to promote the devices as dustproof, waterproof, long battery life and more marketing gimmick.

Gabriel: I remember the day that I came to our director and put it on the table. And he was furious, he was telling us, “There is no chance that anyone will buy such a big device. It’s not comfortable in their pocket. It’s heavy.”

Lesley Stahl: Very heavy.

Gabriel: “Very heavy. It’s no good, go back and bring me something else.” It took me two weeks to convince him that although it’s ugly, it has character. Character meaning added features, which they touted in fake ads on YouTube – Robust. Dustproof. Waterproof. Long battery life.

Gabriel: We make advertising movies and brochures, and we put it on internet. And it becomes the best product in the beeper area in the world.

Lesley Stahl: Did people other than Hezbollah want to buy this based on what was being said about it online?

Gabriel: Yes. We received several request from regular potential customer. Obviously we didn’t send to anyone. We just quote them with expensive price. Mossad wanted to use the name “Gold Apollo” on its pager. So it set up shell companies, including one in this building in Hungary, to dupe the Taiwanese into partnering with them.

Lesley Stahl: So the company in Taiwan, Gold Apollo, did they know that they were working with people from Mossad?

Gabriel: Gold Apollo had zero clue that they are working with the Mossad. And neither did Hezbollah. When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad. We make like “Truman Show,” everything is controlled by us behind the scene. In their experience, everything is normal. Everything was 100% kosher including businessman, marketing, engineers, showroom, everything.

The Truman Show was a 1998 American psychological drama film about an insurance salesman (Jim Carrey) who has no clue that he is living in a false world and his family and friends are actors paid to keep up the illusion. As the show approaches its thirtieth anniversary, he starts noticing unusual things and uncovers the truth, so he decides to escape, which was celebrated by viewers around the world.

 

To make the plot more convincing, Mossad hired the Gold Apollo saleswoman Hezbollah was used to working with before. She offered them the first batch of pagers as an upgrade “free of charge.” The plan worked like a charm. By September 2024, Hezbollah had 5,000 pagers in their pockets. The question for Israel – when to activate the sleeping bombs? There were hints Hezbollah might be getting suspicious of the devices.

 

Faced with the decision to either “use it or lose it”, Mossad head Dadi Barnea ultimately gave the green light to trigger the attack, which shocked people around the world, especially the Iranians, as it seemed more like a spy movie than reality. The attacks using low-tech device such as the pager would send a powerful message to Iran and its proxies – don’t mess with Israel.

At approximately 3:25 p.m. Tuesday (Sept 17), a pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, belonging to one of two members of Hezbollah who were having lunch suddenly exploded. Severely injured, he was bleeding from the arms and eyes. Five minutes later (3:30 p.m.), hundreds of pagers all over Lebanon started exploding. It would be the end of the terrorist group.

Lesley Stahl: As I understand it, people with this pager got a message that said, “You have an encrypted message.” In order to access it, you have to push the two buttons. Meaning that it would explode in their hands.

Gabriel: That was the whole point.

Lesley Stahl: So if someone did not push the two buttons, what happened?

Gabriel: It’s the same effect. It gonna explode anyway.

Lesley Stahl: The explosive was triggered in Israel?

Gabriel: Yes.

What ensued was a complete mayhem and panic to Hezbollah. Terrorists with pagers were blown up on the street, on motorcycles, hospitals filling up with the wounded – limbs, fingers torn off, bloodied, blinded, holes in stomachs and whatnot. The very next day, Mossad finally activated the walkie-talkies that had been dormant for 10 years, some going off at the funerals of those killed by the pagers.

 

Gabriel: The aim was not to kill Hezbollah terrorists. If he just dead, so he’s dead. But if he’s wounded, you have to take him to the hospital, take care of him. You need to invest money and efforts. And those people without hands and eyes are living proof, walking in Lebanon, of “don’t mess with us.” They are walking proof of our superiority all around the Middle East.

 

Two days after the pager attack, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, known for his fiery oratory, gave a subdued speech. But he was a broken, terrified man who wished he could retire at that moment to some nice vacation place like Hawaii, but had to put up a brave face to rally his army of demoralized and dejected militants.

Gabriel: If you look at his eyes, he was defeated. He already lose the war. And his soldier look at him during that speech. And they saw a broken leader. And this was the tipping point of the war. I don’t know if you know that Nasrallah, when we operate the beeper operation, just next to him in the bunker, several people had a beeper receiving the message. And in his in own eyes, he saw them collapsing.

 

Lesley Stahl: How do you know that?

Gabriel: It’s a strong rumour.

 

In the following days, the Israeli air force hit targets all across Lebanon, killing thousands. On September 27, Hezbollah’s glorified leader – Hassan Nasrallah – was assassinated when Israel dropped bombs on his bunker. Two months later, after more Israeli strikes over Lebanon, the war between Israel and Hezbollah ended with a ceasefire. It was game over for Hezbollah.

The killing of Nasrallah came with a bonus. General Abbas Nilforoushan, deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps too was killed at the Dahiyeh headquarters in Beirut. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was rushed to a secure location with heightened security measure after Netanyahu warned – “There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach.”

Lesley Stahl: Did you completely destroy and crush Hezbollah?

 

Gabriel: I think it’s a big question. And I think the honest answer will be no. But I think after this tipping point of the beeper operation and the walkie-talkie and then IDF attack, put Hezbollah in a very, very difficult situation, no chain of command, no spirit in their soldiers, asking, begging, for a ceasefire.

 

Lesley Stahl: So you restore your sense of superiority, but what about your moral reputation? Don’t you think Israel has to worry about its reputation?

Gabriel: Definitely. But there is a prioritization. First, you have to defend your people, not being killed by the thousands. And then only the priority is the reputation.

Lesley Stahl: How does that affect the situation with Hamas?

Michael: The wind was taken out of Hezbollah’s fight after the pager operation. And I’m hoping that it will have an effect also on the Hamas and hostage situation, because they’re looking at their sides and they’re seeing no one next to them. They are completely isolated now.

Lesley Stahl: In terms of the kind of warfare that was conducted with the walkie-talkies and the pagers, would you call it a psychological war?

 

Michael: The day after the pagers exploded, people were afraid to turn on the air conditioners in Lebanon because they were afraid that they would explode. So there is real fear.

Lesley Stahl: Was that an intention?

Michael: We want them to feel vulnerable, which they are. We can’t use the pagers again because we already did that. We’ve already moved on to the next thing. And they’ll have to keep on trying to guess what the next thing is.

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