Luckily they hit the parts of Israel they usually hit. Open desert. Nobody hurt. Nothing damaged.
It's still a good news bad news story though.
The good news of course is that nobody was hurt and nothing was damaged.
The bad news is that the vaunted "Iron Dome" defense system only got one of the incoming barrage.
The Iron Dome has cost well over two hundred million US dollars to put in place. Then again we can find some good news; when we say US dollars we mean it's the US taxpayer who's paying for this crap.
One of the criticisms of Iron Dome is that it's too expensive. Costs on average over one hundred thousand dollars to fire an anti-missle missle. Those guys in Gaza are putting together a home-made Qassam for under a thousand bucks. When you're only hitting one in six, that's over half a million spent on shooting down one home-made rocket that was just going to fall in the desert anyway.
Thank God it's the American and not the Israeli taxpayer footing the bill for this. Otherwise Hamas would soon be rocketeering Israel into bankruptcy.
It does lead to some disturbing questions though. How is Iron Dome going to work in the next round with those Shiites across the northern border?
The stuff they'll be firing won't be home-made.
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