Tag: Iron Dome

What a travesty! Iron Dome Subsidy

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25 September 2021 — Global Justice in the 21st Century

by Richard Falk

For the United States to pay the bill for replenishing missiles in the Israel’s Iron Dome defense system used during the Gaza attack in May is a travesty of law and justice. And for such an initiative to gain support for such a measure by a vote of 420-9 in an otherwise hopelessly divided U.S. House of Representatives should be an embarrassment rather than the occasion for restoring this questionable Special Relationship no matter how adverse its unconditional maintenance is for the wellbeing of the people of the Middle East and the strategic rationality of American foreign policy.
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“Iron Dome is a Bluff”, Says Israeli Defense Expert Moti Shefer By Chris Carlson

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15 July 2014 — International Middle East Media Center 

irondomePrize winning Israeli defense and aerospace engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer stated, during a recent interview with Radio 103, that the infamous Israeli “Iron Dome” security system was one of the biggest bluffs that he’d ever seen.

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How to Read Stories About Israel in the NY Times (Hint: Very Carefully) By Peter Hart

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21 March 2013 — FAIR Blog

Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot–not always in ways you might expect.

Today (3/21/13) a story by Mark Landlerand Rick Gladstone about allegations of chemical weapons in Syria includes something you see often–anonymous government sources. That can often be a bad thing; but today it’s pretty useful: Continue reading →

VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 19 November 2012: VIDEO – U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls for Global Protection of Gaza Civilians from U.S.-Backed Israeli Assault

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19 November 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Another family killed by Israeli airstrike Monday evening
IMEMC – After airstrikes both Saturday and Sunday that killed whole families including parents, grandparents and small children, another airstrike on a home in northern Gaza Monday evening killed a mother, father and their two children. …

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Towards a Full Scale War on Gaza: The Red Line Israel Brazenly Crossed By Dr. Ismail Salami

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17 November 2012 — Global Research

Reports indicate that Israel is reportedly setting the stage for a full-scale war on Gaza. According to Israeli media, 16,000 reservists are being briefed on a full-scale war on the Gaza Strip while Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered 75,000 military reservists drafted.

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 March 2012: 7 Palestinians, Including a Child, Killed and 24 Others Wounded

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11 March 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Ashrawi: “Israel Is Committing Extrajudicial Executions
IMEMC – Offensive Continues – Child, Elderly Man Killed, 18 Since Friday Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stated Saturday that Israel is committing crimes and extrajudicial assassinations against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is seeking further provocation in order to destabilize the region, and to provoke the Palestinians into further retaliation. …

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US Troops going to Israel

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2 January, 2012 — Whiteout Press

Jerusalem: In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel. It took forever to find a second source for confirmation of this story and both relatively mainstream media outlets are in Israel. With one source saying the military deployment and corresponding exercises are to occur in January, the source providing most of the details suggests it will occur later this spring.

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Israel halts missile shield deployment (it don’t work)

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9 November, 2010 — Spacewar by Staff Writers Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 9, 2010

Israel’s military says it will put its much-touted Iron Dome air-defense system in storage and deploy it only if Hezbollah or Hamas unleash major rocket bombardments.

On the face of it, that suggests that the weapon built by state-run Rafael Advanced Defense Systems may not be all that it’s been made out to be, as some Israeli critics have claimed for some time.

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MEDIA LENS ALERT: PROJECTILE DYSFUNCTION – IRON DOME, ISRAEL, TRIDENT, AND THE MEDIA

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20 May, 2010 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

Last week, the BBC reported Barack Obama’s request to Congress for $200 million in military aid to assist Israel’s construction of a short-range rocket defence system, Iron Dome. The funding will be in addition to the $3 billion in military aid the US annually sends to Israel. A BBC online article explained:

“The system is designed to shoot down mortars and rockets from Gaza or Southern Lebanon with guided missiles.” (news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8681919.stm)

Details were provided:

“Iron Dome was conceived and developed in Israel following the Lebanon war of 2006, during which Hezbollah launched about 4,000 rockets into northern Israel. Southern Israel has also come under fire, with thousands of rockets and mortars fired by Palestinian militants.”

The BBC failed to mention that during the 2006 war Lebanon was subjected to 12,000 Israeli bombing raids, 2,500 navy shells, 100,000 army shells and 4.6 million cluster bombs. (Jane’s Defence Weekly, ‘The war in numbers,’ August 23, 2006 and www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/02/17/israel-s-use-cluster-bombs-shows-need-global-ban)

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