NOURNEWS- Names are not chosen by chance, especially when they are supposed to carry the semantic weight of a symbol in addition to denoting a specific concept or function, so the choice of the word “dome” for the defense and anti-missile system raised over the occupied Palestinian territories cannot be easily overturned. The anti-missile, anti-rocket, and anti-artillery dome that Israel and its allies have named as “Iron Dome”, thanks to its advanced defense systems, can detect, intercept, and destroy missiles, rockets, and other aerial threats, like an umbrella made out of iron, impenetrable and invisible.
Although the Iron Dome is an important part of the arsenal of the Zionist regime, it has been tried for more than a decade to be used as one of the identifying elements of a society that is “illegitimate” and what better interpretation than “Iron Dome” could purify this fake identity under a religious interpretation and image, i.e., a dome over the promised land to protect the “chosen people”?
But the importance of the suffix of this phrase, iron, was calculated as much as the original word itself. Although “iron” is no longer a symbol of hardness and impenetrability like in previous centuries, it is still the most common word with which one can depict having a strong body or mythological immortality, which is the same privileged feature that Achilles, Esfandiyār, and Siegfried were associated with in myths. Heroes or mythological legends have considered that their bodies are safe from harm and no bullet can penetrate them, but “being immortal” is a dream that even in myths does not have a chance to be realized; therefore, every soul has a weak and vulnerable point, such as the “heel” of Achilles, Esfandiyār's “eye” and the distance between Siegfried's shoulders.
Since 2011, millions of dollars have been spent on building and upgrading the Iron Dome defense system to keep the Israeli skies safe and secure. The extensive visual and extensive news covering the subject of missiles destroyed over Israel was part of a puzzle that wanted to draw the Zionist regime into a protected and enclosed interior.
Although the infiltration of Israel's defense, intelligence, and security system and its allies and supporters inflicted one of the heaviest casualties and defeats upon Tel Aviv, the biggest damage was the collapse of the idea of invincibility of the security and impregnable roof known as the Iron Dome.
Accordingly, the attack and bloodbath that the Zionist regime launched in Gaza in the days following the al-Aqsa storm operation is more of an “iron fist” and spiteful retaliation to hide the Iron Dome scandal, whose rusty iron collapsed with a flicker. But the reality is that that roof and all its artificial nature have collapsed, and no color, not even the blood of innocent children and women in Gaza, will erase this disgrace.
BY: Mohammad Ghaderi
NOURNEWS