President Donald Trump said the U.S. needs to have a missile defense system like Israel’s Iron Dome that can protect the mainland from the most advanced missiles and drones, which analysts doubt is possible and warn that it would do nothing but create a new arms race.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored U.S. President Joe Biden and the White House continues to provide Israel with funding and weapons without hesitation.
About 67 percent of Israelis say they support a more aggressive approach against Lebanon’s Hezbollah after months of clashes on the northern border, which has displaced 60,000 Israelis from their homes in settlements in Northern Israel.
Hezbollah launched about 30 rockets toward Northern Israel on Sunday night as the Israeli military prepares for a multifront confrontation that could become a regional war.
Hezbollah flew a sophisticated drone over Israel’s Ramat David air base last week which was seen as the latest signal from the Lebanese group that it has the capacity to strike any target it wants inside Israel.
Israel announced last week that it continued to escalate its attacks in Lebanon, as analysts wrote last week that an all-out war between the two sides “is no longer a remote possibility.”