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MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures

Lasrick (2629253) writes In a controversial article last week, MIT physicist Ted Postol again questioned whether Israel's vaunted Iron Dome rocket defense system actually works. This week, he comes back with evidence in the form of diagrams, photos of Iron Dome intercepts and contrails, and evidence on the ground to show that Iron Dome in fact is effective only about 5% of the time. Postol believes the real reason there are so few Israeli casualties is that Hamas rockets have very small warheads (only 10 to 20 pounds), and also Israel's outstanding civil defense system, which includes a vast system of shelters and an incredibly sophisticated rocket attack warning system (delivered through smart phones, among other ways).

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  1. Re:Here we go... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here it comes, all the genocidal Zionist support posts...

    No one seems so interested in the fact that Israel builds colonies for the exclusive use of Jews on territory that doesn't belong to her...

    The so-called Zionist paln of "Eretz Yisrael" gets almost no attention, tossing women, children, and old men into the streets so the area can be "Judeaized"

    Oh, but those Palestinian Terrorists , bent on pushing the Jews into the sea.

    Who has actually been cleansing the land as part of their official state policy? These are the people that want PEACE?

  2. Re:Here we go... by petman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Will Israel promise that if Hamas puts all its rocket launchers, military command and control, and military supplies neatly organised in easily identifiable military bases, Israel won't simply send a missile to figuratively cook all those eggs being put in one basket?

    Will Israel remove the embargo being imposed of Gaza so that Hamas can buy better weapons that they can use to precisely target Israel military installations rather than have to make do with using cheap mortar and rockets that is just as likely to hit civillian targets as Israeli military installations?

    If Israel is not willing to do the above, then don't complain when Hamas have to improvise just to have a fighting chance of defending themselves.

  3. yuo Fail It? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're tokld. It's

  4. Re:Here we go... by l0ungeb0y · · Score: -1, Troll

    Considering that the Jews are gleefully committing Genocide of Canaan 2.0, I don't get how anyone can say that those willing to fight back against the Jews rather than just lying down and dying are "aggressors" The racist Jews who spit on Christians, drive non-jews from their lands and want to bury all Palestinians into the ground to have their "Promised Land" all for themselves are the aggressors.

  5. Re: Here we go... by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, if Hamas didn't use hospitals, mosques, and playgrounds as rocket launch sites then there might be less to complain about when Israel bombs their rocket launch sites.

    http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/IDF-shows-photos-of-alleged-Hamas-rocket-sites-dug-into-hospital-mosques-368307

    But then Hamas wouldn't have all those photos of dead and injured children to propagandize via the world's newsmedia.