Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Coming under fire from the left for the glaring contradiction of providing military assistance to a state that is perpetrating an active genocide, AOC issued a statement claiming her vote was about protecting civilians. AOC’s statement is absolute crap. The Iron Dome is not used for defending, it’s used to facilitate constant attacks. In an article for Jewish Currents titled “Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System,” Dylan Saba explains:

“‘In theory, a weapon like Iron Dome could be used only defensively. But in practice it doesn’t work that way,’ analyst Nathan Thrall told Jewish Currents. ‘Iron Dome facilitates greater Israeli offensive measures, because it lowers the perceived cost to Israel of escalating or extending or initiating attacks.’ In other words, while the Iron Dome may prevent the deaths of Israeli non-combatants, it has made it easier for Israel to engage in deadly operations that take Palestinian lives.”

The Iron Dome isn’t for protecting civilians, it’s for protecting the Israeli regime from deterrence. We see this in the comfort the regime displays in waging constant military violence on its neighbors knowing they can’t retaliate. That’s why Israel cut a ceasefire deal with Iran so fast.

Iran’s advanced missiles can’t be reliably stopped by the Iron Dome, so Iran was able to smash Israel and force it to cease its unprovoked aggressions. If Israel had had a missile defense system which could casually swat those missiles out of the sky at a high rate of success, Israel would still be bombing Iran today, and would continue doing so until Tehran looked like Gaza. Israel’s war-horny population would have supported this, because they’d have no skin in the game.

  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Meh, look at op. They’ve spammed this crap everywhere.

    It’ll be OK though because their conscience will be clear while the genocide rages harder and a shit ton else gets worse because no one passed their purity test.

    And progressives wonder why they can’t ever get shit done. Exhibit a.

    • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      It’s incredibly easy to do, too. All you have to do is cast across the length and breadth of every single thing any particular leftist person has ever done, pick the one that can be interpreted the worst, and spin it up into the entirety of their being.

      Putin killed a million Russian soldiers and God knows how many Ukrainians, bombed a bunch of cities on purpose, and all the rest of it? Well… it’s complicated. Let’s make sure we look at the whole picture. Here, I’ve got a pamphlet.

      AOC voted against one doomed amendment from Marjorie Taylor Greene which was (to all appearances) actually accidentally a good idea because it was defunding Israel, and then had a pretty unconvincing explanation as to why? Literal genocider. Fuck her forever, she’s the enemy now and nothing else matters.