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Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome air defence system was unable to intercept Iranian hypersonic missiles recently

Introduction – June 22, 2024

Although U.S. officials claim that Washington’s pledge of support doesn’t mean that the U.S. would deploy troops on the ground, there’s no guarantee it wouldn’t.

Like Vietnam it might start with the U.S. providing support and advisers; in Israel’s case this may be advanced air defence systems, because Israel’s own vaunted Iron dome system has proven unable to take on Iran’s advanced hypersonic missiles. However, it’s uncertain if the Zionist state has any trained crews to operate the latest U.S. air defence systems.

So it may only be a matter of time before trained U.S. personnel are provided to operate the air defence systems.

In other words, the U.S. air defence crews could turn out to be the proverbial ‘thin end of the wedge’. Ed.

  US said to assure Israel of its full support in the event of war with Hezbollah

Times of Israel – June 22, 2024

The US reassured Israel it will offer the Jewish state full support in the event a full-scale war with Hezbollah breaks out, CNN quotes a senior Biden administration official as saying.

The pledge was made during meetings in Washington this week between National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The official tells CNN that the Biden administration would offer Israel the security assistance it needs. However, the US would not deploy American troops to the ground in such a scenario.

The reassurances come amid a public spat between Jerusalem and Washington that was sparked by a Tuesday video statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which the premier blasted what he said were “inconceivable bottlenecks” that the Biden administration had placed in the transfer of weapons and munitions to Israel.

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