By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Israel has repositioned one of the batteries on the supper effective anti-rocket system ... called the Iron Dome.
The Israelis moved a set of Iron Dome anti-rocket rockets to a site just outside the city of Safed.
The Iron Dome is the system that, without a doubt, saved hundreds if not thousands of lives during Operation Pillar of Defense that took place late last year. The land-to-air system locks on to incoming rockets, triangulates and then shoots. As it travels at extremely high speeds the Iron Dome re-triangulates and then destroys the incoming rockets mid-air so that they do not hit their targets.
The Iron Dome was created to combat against Hamas in Gaza and the incessant launching of rockets into Israel.
So why has an Iron Dome battery been moved all the way up north to be near the near the city if Safed?
The answer is Hezbollah. There is real fear in Israel that Hezbollah will again start to lob rockets into Israel- maybe even gas filled rockets. Repositioning the Iron Dome serves both to protect and to intimidate.
It is to let Hezbollah know that Israel will shoot down any foreign object entering their air space.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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