Kuala Lampur, Sept. 26 -- Benjamin Netanyahu went to the United Nations to explain why Israel is fighting on seven fronts, why its army is the most moral in the world, why its critics are cowards, and why the people walking out of the room are the real problem.

Then he held up a pager.

"Remember the beepers?" he asked, smiling like a man producing the rabbit at the end of a magic trick.

The trick, of course, was that the rabbit had been wired with explosives.

In September 2024, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon and Syria in an operation widely attributed to Israel. At least 37 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured. Children were among the dead. So were civilians. The blasts tore through homes, sho...