Israel to deploy Iron Dome system on Egyptian border

[King_David]

Israel said on Wednesday it would deploy a battery of Iron Dome rocket interceptors at a southern frontier town opposite Egypt, a move that follows cross-border attacks in the area.

Israeli media reported that it was the first time the interceptors, which have been used against Palestinian rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, were being set up at Eilat, near Israel's borders with Egypt and Jordan.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the battery "will be placed near Eilat as part of an operational deployment program which includes changing the locations of the batteries from time to time."

An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the interceptors were set up near Eilat on Monday.

Iron Dome, a system produced locally with U.S. funding, uses radar-guided missiles to blow up Katyusha-style rockets with ranges of 5-70 km (3-45 miles) and mortar bombs in mid-air.


http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-deploy-iron-dome-system-on-egyptian-border-1.450517

[Purveyor]

1. Open your checkbooks US taxpayer, certainly we will have to 'subsidize' this too. eom

[PufPuf23]

2. Using military posture in response to terrorist attacks is provocation and escalation.

In a sane World, Israel would have worked country to country with Egypt, through the UN, and through major allies (USA, NATO) to address terrorism by individuals or cells.

There would be discovery to see if the terrorism was state-sponsored (eg Egypt complicit) that would change the calculus.

The World and region would be so much better off if the regional players were to forgive and forget and go back to the original 1947(8?) UN partition and Jerusalem an international zone.

Turn the armies into social justice (in lieu of plows) and remove nukes from Israel.

The West, particularly UK, France, and the USA, have much to do with the instability in the Middle East. In hindsight, the Ottoman Empire had much less volatile and much more egalitarian model for centuries. Read A Peace to End All Peace for a factual narrative of WWI in the region and the carving of the region into unstable fiefdoms.

[Swede]

3. One million Armenians might disagree.

nt

[PufPuf23]

4. I truly truly did not mean to go to the Armenian Genocide here or ever really.

The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 couped the last Sultan, ended the Ottoman Empire, brought the former Ottoman Empire into the wrong side of WWI, and conducted the Armenian Genocide.

The Young Turks effectively destroyed and broke up what had been a mercantile, culturally diverse, largely peaceful, post expansion, and ethnically autonomous Ottoman Empire during their brief time in power.

The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is quoted on the front page of the August 1, 1926 The Los Angeles Examiner as saying:

"These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule ... They have hitherto lived on plunder, robbery and bribery and become inimical to any idea, or suggestion to enlist in useful labor and earn their living by the honest sweat of their brow ... Under the cloak of the opposition party, this element, who forced our country into the Great War against the will of the people, who caused the shedding of rivers of blood of the Turkish youth to satisfy the criminal ambition of Enver Pasha, has, in a cowardly fashion, intrigued against my life, as well as the lives of the members of my cabinet."

About 1/3 the leadership of the Young Turks were Donmeh (all the Beys) from Salonika (birthplace of the Young Turk movement) or Sephardic Jews. Most of the Young Turk leadership was killed in battle or were hung for war crimes by the post WWI (and then new) Turkish nation.

IMHO these obscure bits of history are likelywhy Turkey does not want to own the the truly horrendous Armenian Genocide and the root of the controversy that that continues to present.

I am 4th to 9th generation western European American (Swede, Dutch, French, English, Irish, and Scotch-Irish by genetics and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish by religion) so have no real bias except from readings of academic history.

I may well be wearing my ass for a hat. Peace.