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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
The title of Kitty's post is, "How long has it been since a rocket hit Israel." What the website shows is how many rockets are "launched" at Israel.
One of the positives here is that not many of those launched actually hit. Israel has an outstanding rocket defense system called the "Iron Dome" which prevents the vast majority of these rockets from reaching their targets.
Sadly, some of them do get through and kill innocent people.
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True. Here's An op Ed piece with statistics on the Rockets the antimissile dome and the costs involved. The author believes the dome has perpetuated Hamas because Israel has avoided wholesale slaughter and survived on being defensive more so than offensive
Should Israel and the U.S. rethink Iron Dome's usefulness? - LA Times