Stephen Lendman Weblog | Aug 15, 2014 | by Stephen Lendman Call it a billion dollar + scam. Add another congressionally funded $225 million tax dollars. Expect millions more on request. In April 2002, noted MIT physicist Theodore Postol headlined his Technology Review article “Why Missile Defense Won’t Work.” The notion is more hoax than […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | United States Senate Blocks Iron Dome Funding
Friday August 01, 2014 10:34 by Chris Carlson – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group | Follow @imemcnews Republican representatives in the US Senate have blocked a Democratic party proposal of a multi-million dollar defense aid package to Israel. Al Ray archive photo The $2.7 billion border aid package would have […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | Chinese hackers obtained info on Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system – report
Russia Today | Published time: July 29, 2014 03:07 | Edited time: July 29, 2014 03:37 Get short URL An Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor rocket in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod July 9, 2014. (Reuters/Baz Ratner) In a raid seeking information related to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, Chinese hackers infiltrated […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | Israeli defense expert: Iron Dome is a bluff
Al Ray Agencies | 16:16 – 14 July 2014 Gaza, Al Ray – ‘Israel’ Defense Prize winner and aerospace engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer told Radio 103 in an interview last Thursday that that Iron Dome was one of the biggest bluffs ever seen. Palestinian rockets, though defenseless, are believed to be a desparate […]
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Pumping up the incitement: Netanyahu says Israel deploys Iron Dome defense system
Maan news Agency | Aug 29, 2013 | 21:21 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Aug. 25. (AFP/Dan Balilty, Pool) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defense system to bolster its security as the West weighed military […]
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Israel deploys Iron Dome missile system near Haifa
Al Qassam/ Agencies | 30-06-2013,08:50 Jerusalem – Israel has deployed Iron Dome missile interceptor batteries in the north, citing the alleged tension on its northern borders. The missile system was deployed near the northern city of Haifa on Friday, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on its website. “The Iron Dome system is deployed from time […]
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New York Times: Israeli Iron Dome failed in the recent war on Gaza
[ PIC 22/03/2013 – 05:45 PM ] NEW YORK, (PIC)– The American New York Times newspaper reported that some American weapons experts started raising doubts about the efficiency of Israel’s Iron Dome system, used in the recent war on Gaza. The paper stated in a report published on Thursday that “a growing chorus of weapons […]
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Israeli general welcomes Obama with call to share Iron Dome production
Maan News Agency | March 20, 2013 By Dan Williams TEL AVIV (Reuters) — The United States should be allowed to co-produce Israel’s Iron Dome rocket interceptor so it can benefit from the money it has poured into Israel’s defense programs, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday. Israel developed Iron Dome to shoot […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | Hebrew media exposes the failure of Iron Dome
[ PIC 20/11/2012 – 01:49 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Official data announced by the Spokesperson for the occupation army show that claims by the Hebrew media about the efficiency of Iron Dome anti-missiles system in intercepting rockets fired by al-Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian resistance factions. While the Israeli journalists claimed that the Iron […]
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The American ambassador’s Twitter diplomacy
Wednesday, August 10 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine The new American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, has a Twitter account. What does he tweet? For example, a message on his visit to a missile battery (in both Hebrew and English). @AmbShapiro And here is the video of my visit to see the Iron Dome […]
Continue readingIsrael deploys air defense system ‘Iron Dome’ near Gaza
26/03/2011 – 09:13 AM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli army is to deploy the mobile air defense system the “Iron Dome” in areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a Hebrew press report said. Yediot Ahronot said the deployment of the system to start on Sunday was in anticipation of further deterioration of the […]
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