Video: Keith Ellison explains his vote against Iron Dome

Hot Air ^ | 8/3/14 | Jazz Shaw

[ought-six]

No, and I wish I did.

[rmlew]

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.

[rmlew]

Amash is a Palestinian

[cynwoody]

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.

[Jane Long]

I didn’t know that. Thanks.