You’re assuming it’s not a front for secret services (Mossad, CIA). The NYT is claiming it was likely such. Which is what secret services do. People might find it messy, but what’s the alternative? Let Hezbollah continue to kill Israelis? If a group targets a nation as these terror groups, no other nation would not resort to such infiltration strategies, yet it’s evil when Israel do it.
Military operations inside Lebanon to target Hezbollah would draw ire, since it would involve a high number of civilian casualties. Now discriminate attacks targeting pagers belonging to Hezbollah members is bad because, by and large, terrorists get maimed or front groups* have to face consequences. Never mind that all this is caused by Hezbollah firing missiles willy nilly, that inconvenience can be ignored.
*And if not, why would they be selling to prohibited terrorist groups and proxies of Iran, who want to spread their version of Islamism across the Middle East?
