It isn’t raining rain, you know: Israel had a successful test of Iron Dome recently (even the AP has noticed it), and is set to begin deploying the anti-missile batteries in Sderot this summer. Considering the renewed rain of rockets from Gaza, it couldn’t happen soon enough. But the best part of it? The terrorists claiming that this won’t stop them from threatening Israel with kassams. Yeah, it will. If it works as advertised, it’s a game-changer. And I will put my money on the ingenuity of Israel’s Jews over the ability of Arabs to create longer-range “home-made” rockets. It won’t be perfect, but it should eliminate quite a lot of the Hamas/Hezbollah threat. And they know it. Oh, wait. No, these are the same people who believed the radio broadcasts out of Egypt that Israel’s demise was imminent. They won’t know it until their rockets stop landing in Israeli towns.
Egyptians decide that Galloway is a creep; what took them so long? This is so, so special I can barely stand it. Egypt has declared that George Galloway is persona non grata and will never be allowed into Egypt again. Awesome. The “Viva Palestina” convoy is just comedy gold every time. It looks like Georgie boy won’t be able to go to Gaza and deliver on his Cash For Terrorists program ever again, because you can be damned sure that Israel won’t let him in.
The famous Muslim religious tolerance strikes again: Four Malaysian churches were firebombed. Why? Because Malaysian Christians are now legally able to use the word “Allah.” You go, Muslims! Show the world how tolerant a religion Islam really is.
How about charging the UN for their support of terrorists? Unbelievable. Israel is going to compensate the UN for bombing UN schools in Gaza last year. And yet, UNRWA, which pays terrorist salaries all over Gaza, is not going to compensate Israel for the damages its hires cause. Hell, the UN owes Israel for over sixty years of sponsoring Palestinian terrorism.
First time “Iron Dome” knocks a Qassam out of the sky, the Palestinians will claim the intercepted rocket landed on a children’s birthday party and killed them all. They’ll even show off the bodies, and nobody will care when one of them sits up and asks for a drink of water on camera.
All that will matter is demanding that Israel destroy the Iron Dome system, just like all that mattered up till now was that Israel destroy the “aparteid wall” and “suffocating checkpoints.”
Doesn’t matter, Tat. Israel is going to deploy it, and the hell with the criticism—just like the security fence.
And God bless Israel for that.
On Iron Dome:
The problem with all anti-missile systems is that they can be defeated by using larger numbers of attacking missiles simultaneously. Each Qasssam is much cheaper than each Iron Dome missile.
But this still requires an attacker to coordinate the launchers. They have to synchronize their watches to a common signal and launch at an agreed-upon time. This additional organizational work can be countered, confused, disrupted etc. But it’s not easy.
So it is a game-changer, but not in a nice simple way.