Israel's Iron Dome has successfully blocked more than 90 percent of the Hamas rockets aimed at Israel. Now the U.S. Congress is prepared to improve on that figure with an even stronger Iron Dome.
There is, of course, no Iron Dome funding for the Palestinians in Gaza.
Will this military asymmetric difference be noticed by congressional committee members who continue to fund Israel's Iron Dome?
The problem for Washington's elected officials is that they live under their own self-imposed ethical shield that keeps them focused on the mantra, "is it good for Israel?"
Neither the American public nor its elected leaders are likely to be exposed to an interview like the one which ran on London's Channel 4 after the deaths of the four boys on the beach.
The interviewer is Channel 4 host Jon Snow. He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev. To view the interview, click here. It runs for nine minutes.
Snow begins with a hard question: How does Israel defend the killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach as a way to "defend Israeli citizens." Regev has no answer.
What he did have is the "cease fire rejection by Hamas" segment of Israel's narrative which he utilized in his interview with Snow. Revisit the interview above and note how Regev plays the "cease fire" failure card.
Israel and the U.S. attempted to create a narrative of a "cease fire" which Hamas was told to sign on without having been a party to any "cease fire" conservations.
Hamas refused, of course. Jonathan Cook writes on why the refusal was Hamas' only option. Here is the opening of Cook's report:
"We now have confirmation from the Israeli daily Haaretz of what we should have suspected: that the idea for the so-called Egyptian 'ceasefire proposal' was actually hatched in Washington, the messenger boy was arch-war criminal Tony Blair, and the terms were drafted by Israel.
"The intention was either to corner Hamas into surrendering -- and thereby keep the savage blockade of Gaza in place -- or force Hamas to reject the proposal and confirm the Israeli narrative that it is a terrorist organisation with which Israel cannot make peace.
"According to Haaretz, Blair secretly initiated his 'ceasefire' activity after 'coordinating' with US Secretary of State John Kerry. On Saturday he headed off to Cairo to meet with the US-backed Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to persuade him to put his name to the proposal."
And just as the U.S. and Israel wanted, Hamas' rejection of a "cease fire" Israeli-drafted proposal, becomes the official narrative for all future discussions of this summer's brutal attack on Gaza. It was an obvious fraud from the start but it served its purpose.
Meanwhile, back in Israel's motherland, the U.S, the decision by a U.S. congressional committee to add even more money to Israel's Iron Dome funding, was reported by Kate Brannen on the Foreign Policy web page July 15. She writes, in part:
"Congress seems poised to give Israel, and one of the United States' largest defense contractors, a jolt of good news: $175 million in new American aid that will help fund an expansion of the program.
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