Defense Minister Ehud Barak has hailed the new US policy on Missile Defense. Speaking in Poland on Wednesday Barak said, "We've listened very carefully to the American argumentation about the change in policy. The new approach really provides more flexibility and, in a relatively short time, a much more effective, economical way to deal effectively with the challenge of missiles from Iran."
U.S. President Barak Obama recently scrapped a plan to place anti-missile batteries in Eastern Europe to protect the region from Iranian balistic missiles. Bowing to Russian opposition, the U.S. came up with an alternative scheme to create a sea-borne anti-missile shield.