My charitable take: Her worry is that in the event of Iron Dome funding being cut off, Israel would run a massive propaganda campaign blaming AOC specifically for every death in Israel.
However, If she truly believes what she says, I think she’s being very naive. The Iron Dome allows Israel to confidently bomb its neighbors without having to worry about consequences. No one is attacking Israel out of the blue (yes, that includes October 7th). Event the recent “war” with Iran was started by Israel.
The best defensive measures that Israel could take:
Stop its apartheid and give every citizen equal rights
Stop committing terror in the region (i.e. blowing up entire apartment buildings to kill one target, murdering all of the top scientists in a given country in their sleep, blowing up pagers of innocent doctors and surgeons in other countries, etc.)
Surrender its current and former leadership to the ICC and allow them to face trial for their war crimes
Why would Israel only blame her specifically and not MTG and the others? Even as a charitable take it requires her to be some sort of lone warrior who is a bit unwilling to become a political martyr and yet this couldn’t be further from reality.
If anything wouldn’t that also be very good for her record e.g “Yes I single handendly voted against the genocide bill(s), yes I’m different, vote against me if you dare.” Isn’t that the whole point? Nah the point here is her complete cowardice to take an independent or even anti-dem stance.
Also goes without saying she continues to show lack of political instincts, now more than ever in July 2025 if you tell the average American “oh no the Iron Dome was cut off and some setter died” most people are likely to respond with “yeah, good. So anyway about [insert ICE or cost of living here issue here]”
My charitable take: Her worry is that in the event of Iron Dome funding being cut off, Israel would run a massive propaganda campaign blaming AOC specifically for every death in Israel.
However, If she truly believes what she says, I think she’s being very naive. The Iron Dome allows Israel to confidently bomb its neighbors without having to worry about consequences. No one is attacking Israel out of the blue (yes, that includes October 7th). Event the recent “war” with Iran was started by Israel.
The best defensive measures that Israel could take:
Why would Israel only blame her specifically and not MTG and the others? Even as a charitable take it requires her to be some sort of lone warrior who is a bit unwilling to become a political martyr and yet this couldn’t be further from reality.
If anything wouldn’t that also be very good for her record e.g “Yes I single handendly voted against the genocide bill(s), yes I’m different, vote against me if you dare.” Isn’t that the whole point? Nah the point here is her complete cowardice to take an independent or even anti-dem stance.
Also goes without saying she continues to show lack of political instincts, now more than ever in July 2025 if you tell the average American “oh no the Iron Dome was cut off and some setter died” most people are likely to respond with “yeah, good. So anyway about [insert ICE or cost of living here issue here]”