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Commentary;
The Olmert, Barak, Ramon regime will stop at nothing; sanctions, short-range missile interception systems, etc. in order to avoid doing what needs to be done — to eliminate the weapons smuggling, manufacture and the army which launches the missiles in the first place.
Former defense minister Moshe Arens writes (excerpt of full article below);
One does not have to be a rocket scientist or nuclear physicist to understand that the shorter the range of the ballistic missile to be intercepted, the more difficult interception becomes. When our defense minister announces that within two and a half years we will have an operational interception system against Kassam rockets – rockets which have a range of only a few kilometers – one should wonder whether this is a reasonable time scale and whether the Defense Ministry’s estimates on how much this will cost are correct. read more