Israel deploys a new weapons system in Gaza
Gordon Duff | NEO
Reports, including photographic evidence reveal that Israel is using an energy weapon to attack targets in Gaza.
The destructive beam, thought to be a
high energy laser, is emitted from a plane identified as a Boeing KC707
“Re’em,” originally configured for Electronic Warfare.
Those observing the attacks cite a beam
from a 4 engine jet hitting a target which immediately turns “white
hot.” After these attacks, the target area is then hit with either bombs
or artillery to destroy evidence of the use of an American designed and
built energy weapon illegally given to Israel.
BACKGROUND
The weapon used is identified as part of
the YAL 1 system, a COIL laser (chemical, oxygen/iodine laser),
originally intended as an aircraft mounted system to shoot down ICBMs.
Boeing approached the Department of Defense in 2002 and by 2004 had
mounted its first system on a 747/400 previously flown by Air India.
Boeing had convinced Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld that this system, mounted on as many as 7
aircraft, could fly 24 hours a day around Iran and defend “the free
world” against nuclear tipped ICBMs that Rumsfeld believed Iran was
planning to use. Please note that it was Rumsfeld that told television
audiences that Afghanistan was “peppered” with underground cities
serviced by rail links that supported division sized Al Qaeda units
that, after ten years, no one was able to locate.
Boeing tested the system in 2007. The
Department of Defense claimed the system could shoot down low earth
orbit satellites and that in tests conducted in 2010, destroyed multiple
test missiles. There is no reliable confirmation of this other than a
press release from then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
CANCELLATION AND MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
The Center for Strategic Studies, in an interview with then Defense Secretary Gates published the following:
“I don’t know anybody at the Department
of Defense who thinks that this program should, or would, ever be
operationally deployed. The reality is that you would need a laser
something like 20 to 30 times more powerful than the chemical laser in
the plane right now to be able to get any distance from the launch site
to fire.”
So, right now the ABL would have to
orbit inside the borders of Iran in order to be able to try and use its
laser to shoot down that missile in the boost phase. And if you were to
operationalize this you would be looking at 10 to 20 747s, at a billion
and a half dollars apiece, and $100 million a year to operate. And
there’s nobody in uniform that I know who believes that this is a
workable concept.”
After $5 billion was spent, the
functioning prototype only capable of being fired directly at nearby
targets, a system very capable of acquisition and destruction of ground
targets with no air defense protection only, was said to have been flown
to a scrap yard.
The plane itself is still there, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, with other failed dreams and nightmares.
However, the weapons system disappeared,
only to reappear in Israel as a “missile defense” project, an adjunct
to the “Iron Dome” system. Israel’s Rafael Defense had been trying to
develop laser weapons on its own to intercept rockets being fired from
Gaza. It was never able to neither deploy a laser powerful enough nor
develop a radar system able to be effective.
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TREASON AND DECEPTION
“Friends of Israel,” within the US
defense community were convinced by Israel that the system could be
finished and deployed to protect Israel against a purported “missile
onslaught” from Tehran.
In truth, there was no such intention.
Instead, as in the film “Real Genius,” the laser system was always
intended to be deployed against ground targets, for terrorism and
assassinations. The “delivery system,” a Boeing airliner configured for
AWAC, electronic warfare or refueling, could easily be modified to
“clone” commercial air traffic and attack targets thousands of miles
away or as close as Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or Iraq with total impunity.
OUTSIDE IMAGINATION
McLeod and Rogers, in The Law of War,
examine the history of prohibition of incendiary weapons. Israel’s use
of white phosphorous, intended as a “smoke market” as a corrosive
anti-personnel weapon against civilian populations in Lebanon and Gaza
skirts initial language, as cited below, in the St. Petersburg
Declaration of 1868, but falls well short of evading later prohibition
on the use of chemical agents.
“The first treaty to deal with weapons
was the St Petersburg Declaration of 1868. Here states were concerned
about the development of explosive or incendiary bullets for use against
the wagon trains of enemy forces. It was felt that these bullets might
be used against enemy personnel15 and cause unnecessary injury.
The Contracting Parties agreed ‘mutually
to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the employment by their
military or naval troops of any projectile of a weight below 400
grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or
inflammable substances’.
The declaration does not seem to have
affected the practice of states in using tracer for range finding, even
mixed with normal ammunition, nor the use of small explosive projectiles
for anti-aircraft and anti-material uses. It did not prevent states
from using four pound, thermite-based incendiary bombs during the Second
World War. These, obviously, were more than 400 grammes in weight.
Furthermore it could be argued that they were not ‘projectiles’, a term
that certainly would not include illuminating flares or smoke
canisters.”
The use of energy weapons for
assassinations and terrorism had, prior to only a few short days ago,
been subject of speculative fiction only. No one had imagined that a
failed American weapons system would be pirated for deployment in acts
of terrorism by a rogue state.
A greater question arises, if this
“failed system” costing many billions has been shipped off “in the dark
of night” without public knowledge or official authorization for use in a
criminal manner, what other systems may have been similarly pirated?
There is conclusive evidence that
W54/Davy Crocket nuclear weapons made their way to Israel after 1991
after an accident at Dimona is reputed to have made that facility
useless for weapons development.
Similarly, when the Ukraine retired its
“fleet” of SS21 tactical nuclear missiles, Israel took possession of the
warheads, servicing their deuterium booster gas all these years to keep
them ready for deployment. Intercepted communications between the Kiev
junta and Israel now indicate that Israel is ready to “repatriate” some
of these nuclear weapons to the Ukraine for use against pro-Russian
separatists. Ukrainian leaders have spoken of the intent to deploy and
use these nuclear weapons publicly on several recent occasions. From USA
Today:
“KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine may have to arm
itself with nuclear weapons if the United States and other world powers
refuse to enforce a security pact that obligates them to reverse the
Moscow-backed takeover of Crimea, a member of the Ukraine parliament
told USA TODAY.
‘We gave up nuclear weapons because of
this agreement,’ said Rizanenko, a member of the Udar Party headed by
Vitali Klitschko, a candidate for president. ‘Now there’s a strong
sentiment in Ukraine that we made a big mistake.’”
THE PATTERN IS CLEAR
With the recent bombing of a UN refugee
facility in Gaza, with the use of chemical and now energy weapons, with
Israel’s planned sale of nuclear warheads to Ukraine, there is little
more that could be done to establish Israel, not only as a rogue state,
but as a “clear and present danger” to not only regional but global
security as well.
As Jim W. Dean of Veterans Today recently stated, “Their fingerprints are at every crime scene.”
Gordon
Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on
veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments
challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the
board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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