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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/us-senate-approves-225m-iron-dome-legislation

US Senate unanimously approves $225m funding for Israel's Iron Dome

Lawmakers reached an agreement overnight to pass the missile defence system funding measure

Reuters in Washington
theguardian.com, Friday 1 August 2014

The US Senate unanimously passed legislation on Friday to provide $225m in emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

An earlier version of the funding plan had failed on Thursday when Senate Republicans blocked a broader spending bill that was largely intended to provide money to handle the current immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border.

But lawmakers reached an agreement overnight to pass the missile funding measure.

To become law, the funding plan must still pass the House of Representatives and be signed by President Barack Obama. Given US lawmakers’ traditionally strong support for Israel, it is not expected to encounter significant resistance in the House.

Israel’s Iron Dome missile interceptor system, which was partly funded by the United States, has shot down most of the rockets fired at its cities by militants in Gaza during the current three-week conflict.

People have very short memories - or are just willfully ignorant and believe everything they're told by the T.V. They forget that during Operation Cast Lead 2008-2009 (Ancient history?) - Israel's last full-scale massacre of Palestinian civilians - just three Israeli civilians were killed. There was no Iron Dome in place then.
But now we nod like obedient sheep and accept that without Iron Dome the Israeli's would be suffering a second holocaust by way of Hamas' rockets.