Israel’s attack on Hezbollah

How to measure attack?

It was clearly a brilliantly executed plan to disrupt Hezbollah’s operations by Israel. Was it worth it? The numbers killed and injured are insignificant compared to the numbers of operatives at Hezbollah’s command.

Undoubtedly, the attack would have embarrassed the leadership, but at the same time it proved that the use of pagers and radios were effective enough in restricting external access to the group’s operations that the need for the attack was necessary.

Now all that Hezbollah has to do is check all remaining pagers and radios and source future ones from random sup pliers and they are back in business.

Robert Burns, St Kilda

This is clever?

We appear to have reached a point where a method of killing, and its users, are actually lauded for being so clever and the deaths caused are rationalised by saying that not all the victims were innocent.

Mark Morrison, Kew

This was terrorism

I was shocked to read columnist Rodger Shanahan (Comment, 20/9) describe an attack that killed children and injured innocent others as an “astounding success” and “brilliant in its execution”. How could he label the “sheer randomness of victims” as merely a psychological strategy – as if it were all just a game of wits – when in other conflicts such an indifferent mode of targeting would be described as a hallmark of terrorism?

Rowan McNaught, Brunswick

Appeal to humanity

What a powerful appeal to our shared humanity by Louise Adler (Comment, 21/9). This she achieves, against the back drop of her personal journey, by raising questions – some awk ward, some fraught, and some suppressed in the Jewish world. Yet some so obvious but neglected in our public discourse on Israel. Our national decision-makers must read it, and reflect.

Ken Blackman, Inverloch