Israel’s Coup! “Holy Testicle Tuesday!” (Ace Ventura movie quote). By Gene W. Edwards.

At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday — and Wednesday — in Beirut, Lebanon 5,000 pagers, two-radio radios, etc., blew up! They belonged to Hezbollah “terrorists.” Over 20 of them died and thousands were injured, many critically, including their private parts. Each “device” was loaded with 20 grams (less than an ounce) of explosives by Israel, its Mossad intelligence arm — as retribution for the attack from Gaza on Israel on 10/7/2023. A signal from “Israel” set them off, most of them at once.

This is one Buster Keaton missed, or Abbott and Costello. It looked like slapstick and had an eerie “Gotcha!” feel to it. This is the strangest, most impossible, war story I’ve ever encountered in my 80 years!

Comedian Susan B. and I once put three little, gag, dynamite charges in a cigarette that fellow comedian Roseanne Barr tried to smoke. Each charge pissed her off more until nothing was left of the cigarette but the filter. (She finally forgave me.) Lebanon is probably not happy. Of course there will be new retaliations, ad infinitum. That’s the Middle East for you. Rockets will arrive in Israel armed with Whoopi Cushions?

What amazes me is that no one caught on. No kid or repairman took an explosive gadget apart to repair it or disassemble and reassemble it by its components. No device blew up on its own.

The attack was not against Iran, the bigger culprit. And for now, Hezbollah communication to retaliate is…