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Doubts Fail to Dent Confidence in Israel's Iron Dome

(BBC News) Kevin Connolly - The U.S. is preparing to increase its investment in Iron Dome, the missile defense system said by Israel to have shot down nearly 90% of the rockets fired at it from Gaza last November - the clearest possible indication that the U.S. government has not been troubled by recent attempts to cast doubt on how well the system works. Uzi Rubin, a rocket scientist and former head of the national missile defense program, said, "You can't fool all the people all the time....This is not the first time that Iron Dome is working, it's the sixth time out. And every time it's working, losses go down, damage goes down and it's obvious for everyone to see....It's working and people feel safe and rightly so." Defense writer Amos Harel, no tame mouthpiece for Israel's military establishment, is inclined to side with the government against its critics. "I think these people [the critics] are mostly against the idea of interceptive rocket systems and they're trying to find an argument after it's already been proved that the system is working," he says. "It reminds me of those people who argue NASA never landed on the moon and faked the whole thing at Universal Studios."
2013-04-23 00:00:00
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