For the sake of clarity, let's put aside anything about the debt ceiling and note:
1) Israel's Iron Dome is a defensive anti-rocket system that saves innocent lives by SHOOTING WAR CRIMES OUT OF THE AIR.
1) Israel's Iron Dome is a defensive anti-rocket system that saves innocent lives by SHOOTING WAR CRIMES OUT OF THE AIR.
2) As a bonus, the ability to shoot down Hamas's indiscriminate rockets often lessens the need for, or intensity of, an Israeli response to those attacks. The calculations are very different if a random rocket gets shot down vs if a Hamas rocket lands kills a family.
3) This part is mind-reading, but I'll do it: Those certain House "progressives" who made news today in relation to the Iron Dome are opposed to Israel having that ability. If they could push a button and make the Iron Dome systems disappear, they would. That's gross and immoral
4) What he said.
https://twitter.com/RepRitchie/status/1440376513799417868
6) An important point:
https://twitter.com/paulrubens/status/1440385674843021323
Answering
a) In some cases that's indeed driven by antisemitism. But I understand @paulrubens as saying that the strategic goal of this kind of grandstanding is to alienate and intimidate American Jews into silence. Let me elaborate…
https://twitter.com/SowDana/status/1440393930843975683:
a) In some cases that's indeed driven by antisemitism. But I understand @paulrubens as saying that the strategic goal of this kind of grandstanding is to alienate and intimidate American Jews into silence. Let me elaborate…
b) In a world where too many are too indifferent about threats to Jews—including threats to Jewish lives in Israel, where most Jews are concentrated—American Jews tend to have relatively more empathy for Israelis and more understanding about the place of Israel in Jewish history.
c) That support for Israel—not support for every single policy (duh) but certainly for its existence and right to self-defense—among American Jews of all ages politics is an inconvenience, maybe a fly in the ointment, of those seeking to demonize and delegitimize the country.
d) To loudly treat anything related to Israel as abominable and illiberal (see @RepSlotkin above), won't stop Israel from getting interceptors. More likely is that it will push Jews out of the tent of respectability, unless they abandon their principles and sense of peoplehood.
(@paulrubens can of course correct me if I'm misrepresenting the point he's making. At any rate, I guess that's the point I'm now making.)
This is much more concise:
https://twitter.com/paulrubens/status/1440392734968213514
(Though I disagree that it's a mistake to note facts about the Iron Dome. That's an important part of making the case that their point is little more than to say, with no regard to actual morality, that Israel is evil.)
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