Michael Oren who is Israel 's
ambassador to the United
States wrote a piece that was published in
the Wall Street Journal on December 7, 2012. It has the title: “The Iron Dome
Military Revolution” and the subtitle: “Historically, defensive measures lag
behind offensive capabilities. Not so with Israel 's new antimissile system.”
Right here you get the sense that he says the Iron Dome is a defensive measure
that was developed for an offensive capability that does not yet exist. And you
can't wait to see how he articulates this idea.
But after you have read the first few paragraphs in which
the idea is supposed to have been articulated, you scratch your head and ask
yourself if you missed something, or was it the author who missed something? In
fact, the historian that he fancies himself to be, Oren begins the historic
demonstration with: “Two hundred years ago...” to reach a point – a few
paragraphs later – where he says this: “But today, the attacked in Israel are now trumping
their attackers,” without ever developing the idea. And so you exclaim: where's
the beef, Michael?
There is no beef. In fact, there is not even a morsel of
meat or a bone to chew on. What there is, you begin to realize, is the ordinary
Jewish clumsy way to flatter America
and mix with the flattery a promise to save the superpower from a looming
existential threat. This would be the case because only the genius of God's
chosen children encapsulates the ability to detect an existential threat, and the
ability to “trump” it. But the Jews of Israel will do that if and only if they
get what they want from America
which is money, money, money.
Here then is the flattery: “... in the spirit of Old
Ironsides and the ironclads [American warships] Israel developed the Iron Dome
antimissile system.” This is his way to say to the Americans: We are like you.
And this is meant to suggest that “we” and “you” have a common enemy who is not
like us. Therefore, there is us versus them, and you must help us defeat them
to protect yourselves, something you can do by giving us money, money, money.
Well, if he could not show the beef, he can certainly show
the Jewish genius. Here it is: “From drawing board to development … Israel
completed the Iron Dome in a mere three years.” Get it? More than three decades
after Ronald Reagan's vision of a defensive system called Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI), the Americans could still not develop a system that worked.
By contrast, God's chosen children did it in a “mere three years.” But they
only have 6 batteries now, and they will need 7 more to defend the whole
country. This means they will need to get from America more of what is called
money, money, money.
To amaze the reader, Oren gets into the technical
description of how the system works: “Intercepting supersonic projectiles in
midflight is literally rocket science,” he says. Okay, you say: Show me how
that is. And he shows you: “Israeli engineers pulled off the feat by combining
cutting-edge tracking radar with electro-optic sensors and mounting them on
highly, all-weather air-defense systems.” What's that again? Tracking radar?
Electro-optic sensors? All-weather air-defense systems? That's electronics but
where's the rocket science he promised? Where's the beef, Michael?
There's no beef but let's look at what he says, anyway. He
says electro-optic sensors. You want to see an electro-optic sensor, my friend?
Go to the nearest elevator, and as soon as the door starts to close, try to get
in. The door will reopen so as not to crush you. What did it was an
electro-optic sensor, a technology that has been around for 6 decades or more.
He also says all-weather air-defense systems. The truth is, you need these
things to detect missiles coming above the clouds, which means coming from far
away. Gaza is not that far from Israel . And he
claims that this is what the Americans could not do since Ronald Reagan?
He goes on to say there is something even more ingenious
than that: “Most ingenious, the Iron Dome determines … whether an incoming
rocket is headed for an open space or a populated area – and saves its fire for
the latter case.” To see why this is nothing more than an exercise in spinning
hogwash, you need to know what is involved in intercepting an incoming missile,
and hitting it in midflight.
To do that, you can hit the incoming missile directly in
which case a bullet from a machine-gun or a shotgun would be enough if you're
lucky enough to hit the target dead on. But in this case, hitting the target
alone would not be enough because the missile will then fall to the ground with
a warhead that can still detonate and destroy what is below. What you need to
do is detonate a charge powerful enough at close range to destroy the missile
and detonate the warhead inside while it is still in the sky.
How do you do that when the incoming missile and the
interceptor are approaching each other at supersonic speeds, meaning at least
2,500 kilometers an hour? Even if the interceptor were so maneuverable that it
could be made to head directly toward the incoming missile, it will have only
one millisecond to come as close as a meter to it, blow itself up and damage
the missile so badly as to blow up the warhead inside. Well, the people who
worked on SDI discovered that the best way to detonate an incoming missile
carrying a nuclear warhead was to detonate a nuclear bomb not a meter away but
a few miles away. Iron Dome is not doing that.
And so, when the onlookers discovered this truth during the
last Israeli adventure, the Jewish propaganda machine spun the hogwash about
the system being able to determine where the missiles were headed. But the fact
is that the Gaza
rockets are ballistic missiles that lack a system of guidance. They were used
as flares to annoy the Israelis in response to Israel 's acts of terrorism.
During the years that the Gazans have used those flares, 85
percent of them fell in unpopulated areas without causing any damage which is
why no more than half a dozen casualties occurred in Israel . All the while, the
American-made precision guided “smart” bombs used by the Israelis killed
Palestinian mothers and their babies in their bedrooms by the thousands. Now
that's deliberate terrorism.
Having flattered the Americans and having repeated the
hogwash, Michael Oren now makes the closing argument: “Iron Dome … isn't a
game-ender … nuclear warheads would pose an existential threat … Israel
has developed the Arrow .. and we have tested David's Sling … These innovations
will … enhance security for America
and its allies world-wide … Yet no air-defense system is foolproof.”
Translation: Give us more of what is called money, money, money.
The suckers in the Congress are being nudged again, and no
one is there to protect the American taxpayers from the Oren who is there to
fleece them yet again.
It is time for money, money, money.