Right, so Israel’s deranged Minister of Defence, Israel Katz, has at last conceived a cunning plan to deal with Hezbollah’s pesky fibre-optic drones and it really is a stroke of genius, providing your level of genius is somewhere around the same level as a certain orange US President. He’s announced a six-month ban on the use of fibre-optic and cellular-phone-guided aerial vehicles in Israeli airspace! Hooray, that’ll show em! Itt will be signed on Sunday if a non-wired pen can be found, and, after months of being thwarted in every way you can fathom by Hezbollah's flying toys, Israeli soil will surely be safe! After spending billions of shekels on all manner of high-tech military hardware, and after trying everything from snipers to fishing nets, the final plan is to stick a finger in the air and wave it about a bit along the border. I mean, I’m sure Hezbollah will definitely respect their borders right, at least as much as Israel themselves do of course… And I thought this was peak desperation when I first covered this story several months ago: fishing nets versus drones, the battle of the Titans. But honestly, if the net actually catches something, it has already achieved more than most ministerial press conferences ever have. The people underneath don’t want another rousing speech while they hide under a glorified laundry hamper; they want to be safe, not to face another round of government deception. But the comedy really begins when we leave the net's magic circle. Munitions do not rain from heaven, and cars do not come out of thin air. To sustain life in southern Lebanon, you need more than lying under a net and waiting for some politician to come up and declare victory for you. The fibre-optic cable caused such difficulties because it was to be expected. In a flying machine of this type, a thin glass cable which transmits the image and the orders that control the movements unrolls itself as it flies. These things carry literal kilometres of the stuff.
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