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Title: Iron Dome Foils 90 Percent of Missiles
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URL Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153623
Published: Mar 11, 2012
Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Post Date: 2012-03-11 09:59:22 by A K A Stone
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The Iron Dome system has intercepted 90 percent of missile attacks on urban centers during the latest rocket bombardment from Gaza. The expensive systems were inaugurated last year amid controversy over its worth. A primitive Kassam rocket costs terrorists only a few hundred dollars while each Iron Dome anti-missile missile costs $50,000. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated Saturday night, “We will continue to improve home front defense including by means of additional Iron Dome systems, the effectiveness of which was shown again over the weekend." The Iron Dome system intercepted about 90 percent of the rockets fired at Be’er Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon, including three on Sunday morning. Despite the rocket barrage, Israel kept open the Erez Crossing for passengers and employees of international organizations operating in Gaza. Kerem Shalom was open for the delivery of 200 truckloads to Gaza residents. Its deployment this past weekend appears to have defeated Hamas, at least for the time being. The terrorist organization has been talking with the new regime in Egypt for another ceasefire after failing to inflict mass casualties or property damage on Israel. The problem with the Iron Dome is its cost and the lack of enough systems to defend all of Israel. The United States is providing funds to Israel to buy more of the made-in-Israel systems, each one of which costs more than $100 million. The Iron Dome has been able to defend Israel’s three most populous southern cities, but if Hamas unleashes longer-range missiles that can reach Rehovot, Kiryat Gat and Kiryat Malachi, closer to metropolitan Tel Aviv, the IDF would lack enough systems to cover everyone. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday morning that expanding the system should be a national emergency project. In addition to the defensive action of deploying the Iron Dome, the IDF also has taken the offensive against terrorists. It targeted two members of the Popular Resistance Committee terror organization on Friday. The squad was responsible for planning a combined terror attack that was to take place via the Sinai Peninsula and the Israel-Egypt border. In response to the ensuing rocket and missile bombardment from Gaza, the Israel Air Force targeted several weapons manufacturing facilitates and terrorist cells preparing to launch missiles.
Poster Comment: They fire rockets into Israel to kill people. Israel maybe it is time for you to destroy your enemies. The Israelis are smart people. Maybe they should automate a system where every time a rocket is launched at them they launch 100 at the Muslim scumbags that launched them. Muslims are not compatible with life on earth.
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Why do you believe ANYTHING coming out of Israel? “They were expecting that there would be a regime change in Syria and that this would have an impact in Lebanon to change the equation in Lebanon from the outside,” he said, adding: “They didn’t get the power from the inside, nor did they get it from the outside. Just as they failed from 2005 to 2011, today they have failed in their bet on Syria and have indulged with circles outside the interest of Lebanon.” Read more: www.dailystar.com.lb/News...ebanon.ashx#ixzz1ooismmrK (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: www.dailystar.com.lb) First thing destroyed will be Dimona. Second Ras Tanura. After that, the USSA won't be getting much news from the MENA....;} And we won't be talking about Gov't going BK do to financing birth control pills either....;} " The conclusion to such views is not difficult to draw: The endless trail of Jewish collective tragedies is there to teach us that Jews always pay eventually (and heavily) for Jewish power exercises. Yet, surprisingly (and tragically) enough, Jews somehow consistently fail to internalise and learn from that very lesson.[12] More precisely, commenting on the climax of State violence directed at Jews in the 1930s, most famously by Germany, but also in most other European nations, Atzmon is clear: The remarkable fact is they don't understand why the world is beginning to stand against them in the same way they didn't understand why the Europeans stood against them in the 1930s. Instead of asking why we are hated they continue to toss accusations on others.[13]-Gilad Atzmon
...The problem with the Iron Dome is its cost and the lack of enough systems to defend all of Israel. The United States is providing funds to Israel to buy more of the made-in-Israel systems, each one of which costs more than $100 million. The Israelis will need to do more than just deploy the Iron Dome. I can fully understand why they would do so, but all that the terrorists have to do is bankrupt us. I don't know if the readers know how easy it is to make primitive rockets like the Kassams that Hamas uses. They are basically big sugar rockets. Yeah, sugar rockets! The fuel is a mixture of potassium nitrate and sugar, both of which are obviously pretty cheap and easy to acquire. Do a search on YouTube for "sugar rockets" and you'll find a bunch made by kids who make small ones for fun. Kassams are not precision military weapons, they are for terrorism. They only hurt people or property in small percentages to the amount fired, but of course for the folks affected they demand a response. The fact that we are now bankrolling $50,000 a shot missiles to defend against rockets made with scrap pipe and sugar probably has Hamas laughing their asses off at us.
Here's a vid of a sugar rocket launch made by an American hobbyist to give an idea of how cheap and easy the equivalent are for Hamas to make. www.youtube.com/watch? v=qaN8jVgmTtc Pipe, sugar, fertilizer, and a warhead if Hamas wants to make it go bang when it lands somewhere. Of course, for many of the rockets they fire, they don't even bother with a warhead -- they're terror weapons after all. If one lands near your home, you'll call the bomb squad, and more $$$ will be spent fighting defensively against extremely cheap weapons.
Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
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The expensive systems were inaugurated last year amid controversy over its worth. A primitive Kassam rocket costs terrorists only a few hundred dollars while each Iron Dome anti-missile missile costs $50,000... (snip)
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