The idea that the Iron Dome is only a defensive system (strategically) is severely misguided. Israel is mostly free of consequences from its genocidal actions because the only way to hit them is through the Iron Dome, and it costs their enemies a very heavy premium to make the kinds of weapons that can get through it, even in the age of drone warfare. Countries shouldn't be immune from consequences, especially when the Palestinians don't have anything like the Iron Dome to defend them.

Honestly, I'm reaching the point where I just can't hold out any hope for a politician unless they clearly state that Israel is an illegitimate state.

AOC is to the right of Marjorie on commiting genocide.

of course, they're all equally genocidal and this was just MTG's turn to pretend not to be.

"The iron dome is a defense system"

DEFENSE FROM WHO

see, when countries do a genocide, they split all their weapons into two big piles labeled "Genocide" and "Not genocide". The latter pile is cool and we should still be adding to it but we just got to stop the genocide pile from getting bigger

Cutting iron dome funding is good and necessary. It should have been done the second it was clear israel was fully genocidal this time around. She is and always was a zionist coward

These posts really make the blueAnon contingent of Lemmy come out in full force.

You don't make tweets like this when you're on the right aide of history.

Jacobin, 2021: As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to “Self-Defense”

The idea that defensive weapons don't expand your ability to kill is so obviously false. It's disrespectful to expect people not to realize that.

The world has understand MAD for almost a century. Someone who feels safe from reprisal is more likely to engage in violence. Someone who knows they could be harmed in a fight is less likely to start one.

Fuck AOC, she's not stupid, she knows this. She just literally doesn't care about Israel committing genocide. Nazi enabler.

Her pretense and excuses suggest more of a situation where she is trying to keep the mask on even though it's obviously a mask though, right? That's a different sort of shamelessness

Members of the SPD explain their reasons for voting for war credits, 1914, colorised

To her (very small credit) at least she calls it genocide.

okay.... so why not vote for the amendment to cut off Iron Dome? or is her "worry" that with Iron Dome cut off in the bill, more of the House will vote to continue the bill which still includes munitions flow - to which she is against?

i'm being very charitable to her, but that seems to be what she's arguing?

edit: she voted no on the full bill. a lot of people are being very bad-faith in this thread.

Title and text do not match.

She says the exact opposite in this very post.

"I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza"

Uh, wtf is this title?