A reader writes:
I think perhaps more important than Hamas firing a missile at a school bus is that yesterday was the first actual deployment of Israel's home-grown missile defense system, the Iron Dome. Obviously some of what we're reading in the papers is propaganda, but it appears that to some degree the thing actually worked. While it will not be effective in disabling the short-range attacks, it could be huge when Hezbollah decides to launch more sophisticated weapons from southern Lebanon (I'm presuming Hezbollah isn't stockpiling weapons for show).
More info on the Iron Dome here. The system intercepted three rockets launched at Ashkelon today. But Noah Pollak is skeptical:
Israel's missile defense uses $50,000 rockets to shoot down $100 rockets. When u look up "unsustainable" in dictionary, it says "Iron Dome."
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