Bush to give Israel X-band radar
Well, here's some good news for a Saturday night. During his visit here this week, President Bush plans to give Israel x-band radar, a new missile defense system that is capable of tracking a baseball from 2900 miles away.It would let Israel's Arrow missile defenses engage a Shahab-3 ballistic missile about halfway through what would be its 11-minute flight to Israel from Iran, or six times sooner than Israel's "Green Pine" Radar is currently capable of doing, [Representative Mark] Kirk [R-Ill.] said on Friday.I'm happy to have the radar, but I'm not sure why Kirk thinks that Iran won't attack us anyway.
"This is the best thing to lower tensions between Israel and Iran" because Iran presumably would be less likely to attack under such circumstances, Kirk said.
An Israeli defense official said Israel had discussed a range of "parting gifts" from Bush, who leaves office on Jan. 20, including military pacts and technologies.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:44 PM
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After what that little troll in Teheran said the other day, nothing Iran is doing in the Western Levant portends good for Israel. Yet we have the spectacle of an Israeli Prime Minister consumed with saving his worthless rear end than doing what is right for Israel's future.
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