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Israel is finalizing test runs with the U.S. European Command in preparation for deployment of David’s Sling and Arrow-3, a new missile defense system considered among the top in the world.

Israel’s multibillion dollar advanced rocket and missile air defense system will surpass any others in the Middle East, and much of the world at large. The developers include U.S. defense contractors Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which boast the new system will be superior in speed and targeting accuracy to any in Europe and even the United States.

The highly militarized Israel possesses the fourth largest army in the world and the largest in the Middle East. Of course, the Israel Defense Forces and all its tactical innovation would be impossible without huge subsidies from the United States. America provides Israel with $3.1 billion worth of military aid per year, yet in November prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded of President Obama an increase to $5 billion annually.

According to the Washington Post, the U.S. invested more than $3.3 billion in the air defense system over the last decade alone.

Aside from the US government, Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are some of the worst offenders when it comes to subjugation of the Palestinian people, as their military technologies are deployed across Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Israel waged its summer 2014 assault on Gaza primarily with F-16 fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin. Operation Protective Edge as it is known in Israel left over 2,000 Palestinian civilians dead; approximately 5 Israeli civilians were killed during the 51 day war.

The companies are targets of the nonviolent Palestinian civil society led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that seeks to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, among other things like the right of return for refugees.

Officials belonging to the Israeli defense ministry and the US-partnered establishment seek to protect Israel from short range missiles launched by Hamas from the Gaza strip, midrange missiles launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon and long range, possibly chemical, warheads launched by Iran.

Hamas is militarily equipped almost entirely on the blackmarket in Gaza, as the decade long air, land and sea blockade by Israel and Egypt prevents even basic necessities from reaching Gazans, therefore obtaining advanced weaponry is a near impossible venture.

David’s Sling is intended to stop short and mid range missile attacks and Arrow-3 long range attacks. Both systems will deploy alongside Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system and Arrow-2 in the coming months.

Israel’s leaders called David’s Sling “the world’s most revolutionary innovation in the family of interceptor systems,” maintaining the narrative that Israel is the “startup nation.”

But its increasing status as a pariah state has Israel’s leaders feeling isolated—a position that it seeks to combat with military might. The decades old occupation and military rule over the Palestinians coupled with the U.S.’s reopening of relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, not to mention international isolation as a result of BDS, all point in the direction of a skittish and rightwing Jewish nationalist state. Its paranoia will likely be reinforced by military budget bloat.

Brigadier General Zvika Haimovich, commander of the IAF’s Aerial Defense Division, indicated as much when he warned “there is no hermetic defense or total security that will intercept everything fired at Israel. In the next real war, rockets will fall on Israel.”