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Video: Keith Ellison explains his vote against Iron Dome
Hot Air ^ | 8/3/14 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 08/03/2014 4:32:45 PM PDT by Nachum

You may recall that on Friday, in what would have been a Christmas Miracle were it not several months early, Congress actually got something done. It was the passage of a bill approving $225M in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defensive missile system. It was quite the bipartisan effort in retrospect, garnering an overwhelming 395 votes in the House with only eight in opposition. One of those eight was Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, and as The Corner reports, he went out on the weekend gab circuit to explain why he didn’t support the measure.

“Because a cease-fire is what we should prioritize now,” he said when asked to explain his vote on Meet the Press. “A cease-fire protects civilians on both sides — it doesn’t just say, ‘We’re only concerned about people on one side.’”

He pointed to the devastation he witnessed during his trips to Gaza.

Let’s go to the brief video, and then we’ll carry on below that.

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To: 1010RD

No, and I wish I did.


81 posted on 08/05/2014 5:34:45 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: robertwalker62
Why again are US taxpayers paying for this? The IDF can afford something like this.
1. Israel gives us technology.
2. The US has protected Hamas for 2 decades.
3. The US funds Hamas.
82 posted on 08/06/2014 10:34:48 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Jane Long

Amash is a Palestinian


83 posted on 08/06/2014 10:35:52 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: trisham
I’m going to take a shot in the dark here and say that Ellison saw some “logic” in saying that voting against Iron Dome funding was a way of supporting a cease fire. Mind you, this is only a guess, but I suppose he meant that if large numbers of Israeli civilians began dying because the rockets raining down on them started getting through, Netanyahu?would be more interested in a cease fire? Was that it?

No, Keith, you moron! Israel losing the Iron Dome would result in more dead wogs, not fewer.

Think about it: If the missiles keep falling, and the only way to stop them is at the source, then Netanyahu's rational response would be to loosen Israel's rules of engagement, resulting in more dead Gazan civilians. Netanyahu's one rational guy.

84 posted on 08/06/2014 10:50:29 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: rmlew

I didn’t know that. Thanks.


85 posted on 08/07/2014 5:30:44 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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