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Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384512/stronger-israel-victor-davis-hanson
Iran Watches Israel Knock Down Hamas Missiles
(National Review) Victor Davis Hanson - In the current war, Israel has found a method of inflicting as much damage on Hamas as it finds politically and strategically useful without suffering intolerable losses. And because the war is seen as existential - aiming rockets at a civilian population will do that - Israeli public opinion will largely support the effort to retaliate. The more the world sees of the elaborate tunnels and vast missile arsenals that an impoverished Hamas had built with other people's money, and the more these military assets proved entirely futile in actual war, the more Hamas appears not just foolish but incompetent. Iran is watching the war, and its surrogate is not doing well. There is no particular reason why an Israeli anti-missile system could not knock down an Iranian missile. The writer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.