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.
The idea that the Iron Dome is only a defensive system (strategically) is severely misguided.
she knows, it’s just deflection
“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
These posts really make the blueAnon contingent of Lemmy come out in full force.
Gaza is being starved to death and genocidal american supremacists think there is nuance
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.
Not only that but it sounds like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are both (strategically) agreeing on supporting MTG on the question of Palestinian genocide.
Strange bedfellows, as they say. I don’t blame them though.
Members of the SPD explain their reasons for voting for war credits, 1914, colorised
You don’t make tweets like this when you’re on the right aide of history.
She says the exact opposite in this very post.
No she pretends to say the exact opposite. My title is completely accurate.
“I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza”
lolwut?
To her (very small credit) at least she calls it genocide.
It’s probably better to deny that Israel is committing genocide when she votes to send them weapons.
How long did it take her though?
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.
“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?
An accurate one clarifying what she actually said.
See also https://lemmy.ml/post/33371684 for context
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
Title and text do not match.
They match fully.
Jacobin, 2021: As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to “Self-Defense”
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
