An Iron Dome battery deployed Near Ashkelon in Israel. (IDF via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0) By As’ad AbuKhalil / Consortium News By all accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t U.S. ‘shock and awe’ but it was massive, sophisticated and dazzlingly theatrical. It is too early to assess the damage caused by its combination of missiles and drones. Israel, like the U.S., does not reveal, at least not immediately, the extent of any damage it suffers at the hands of enemies.