(Strategy Page) During two periods of intense rocket attacks last April and August, Islamic terrorists in Gaza fired over 300 rockets at Israeli towns. Israel's Iron Dome air defense system detected and shot down about 90% of the missiles that were headed for inhabited areas. None of the Palestinian media will mention Iron Dome, but over the last two months Israeli intelligence has collected a lot of communications chatter in Gaza that indicates a demoralized population. Hamas had made much of how the rockets being brought into Gaza by the thousands would bring Israel to its knees, but Iron Dome has spoiled any enthusiasm for rockets destroying Israel. The rockets are now seen as a liability. The rockets can't hurt Israel much, and the Israelis shoot back, doing a lot more damage that the Palestinian rockets.
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