Bush's parting gift to Israel
US Early-warning missile radar system Negev desert.


by Jonathan Cook

Global Research, December 21, 2008
aljazeera.com


In accepting that it must rely on a U.S. shield, Israel answered the ME’s biggest question of 2008: will it launch a go-it-alone strike against Iran?

Almost unnoticed, Israel and the White House signed a deal over the summer to station an early-warning missile radar system, staffed with U.S. military personnel, in Israel’s Negev desert. The media here described the Joint Tactical Ground Station, which brings Israel under the U.S. protective umbrella against missile attack, as a “parting giftâ€