A British journalist said that the US funding of the Israeli missile defense system, known as Iron Dome, comes as part of a larger effort to strengthen a military system for global domination.

Journalist Jonathan Cook added in

an article

on the

Middle East Eye website that a lot of controversy and gossip arose in the wake of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan recently, that Washington is working to reduce its role in the world.

take over the world

However, he believes that such a statement is far from the truth, as the United States is ultimately seeking to control the world on its own through a combination of long-range military force, cyber wars, the use of robots and artificial intelligence, in the hope of liberation from the restrictions incurred as a result of The loss of American lives and the internal opposition.

And battles erupted again in the corridors of Congress earlier this week, blocking the approval of additional military funding of one billion dollars for Israel for a short period.

In Cook's assessment, the obstruction indicates that the talk about US financial aid to Israel has nothing to do with reality.

A small group of progressives belonging to the Democratic Party in the US House of Representatives succeeded within 48 hours last month in blocking a measure requiring Washington to bear the costs of renewing the Iron Dome project, which was developed by Israel with “generous” financial support from successive US administrations after the war launched by Tel Aviv in 2006 on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

It appears

The British journalist believes that Iron Dome is apparently working to protect Israel from short-range and largely primitive shells that are fired from the Gaza Strip from time to time.

He pointed out that the equipment for Iron Dome missiles - each costing at least $50,000 - was exhausted last May when Israel sparked large-scale confrontations with the Palestinians after it intensified its settlement efforts in Palestinian neighborhoods near the city. The Old City of Jerusalem and its violent storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A group of Progressive Democrats known as "The Squad" thwarted an initial attempt by their party's leaders in Congress to include the $1 billion in aid to Israel in US budget legislation.


Inserted again

However, the amount allocated to Iron Dome was soon inserted again as a separate, stand-alone bill, as it was approved by an overwhelming majority and only 9 deputies objected to it. vote.

It should be noted that last month Cortez proposed an amendment to the annual defense spending bill of the United States to prevent the sale of precision-guided munitions to Israel.

Her office announced at the time that the proposed amendment related to Israel aims to "prevent the transfer of weapons used by Israel" in a raid that claimed the lives of 44 Palestinian residents of Gaza in one night, due to the collapse of the building in which they were living.

More complex legislative process

The uproar moved this week from the House of Representatives to the Senate when Rand Paul, a Republican fiercely critical of US foreign aid, refused to pass the bill and thus gave it unanimous approval.

So the project will now need to go through a more complex legislative process.

According to the article, the faction's main achievement in blocking the passage of legislation for a short period is the public unveiling of the fact that the United States bears the costs of the Israeli missile arsenal.

The Israel lobby, like leaders of the US House of Representatives, hoped that the funds would be secretly transferred without attracting attention.

Why support Israel?

A few analysts questioned the reason for Washington to provide Israel with missiles, even though it is "one of the richest countries in the world", and in the midst of a pandemic that has severely damaged the American economy.


But the Israel lobby quickly quelled a "critical" debate about whether the United States should urge Israel to use Iron Dome under any circumstances.

Instead, says Jonathan Cook, US funding for the interceptor system has been portrayed as being only intended to save people's lives.

Criticizing Senator Rand Paul's blocking of the bill, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) stated that his actions would cause the loss of "innocent lives, increase the likelihood of war, and encourage Iran-backed terrorists." .

critical situation

Perhaps the claim that the Iron Dome is defensive is what put Representative Ocasio-Cortez in an awkward position, which led her to abstain from voting.

Pictures taken from the House floor showed Cortez shedding tears following the vote on the bill.

The author of the article believes that the Iron Dome, "which is far from being defensive, is just another weapon in the Israeli arsenal to subjugate, impoverish and encircle the Palestinians."

For those who claim to want peace in Israel and Palestine, Iron Dome funding has made the possibility of that remote a possibility, “and as long as the goal may be to push the Palestinians toward a slow death in silence, with the rest of the world ignoring their plight, Israel will have a free hand to seize the More lands, occupying more of what was supposed to become a Palestinian state in the future."