Wearing armor grants you the privilege to start more fights. Israel’s incentives for diplomacy are minimal and they exert their will unto others due to a lack of consequences.

I’m about to be shit on as a Zionist for defending the death of innocent children, but here goes:

Isreal is just as full of innocent children. They don’t deserve to die for the genocide their parents are being tricked into ignoring.

The armor is for those children. Not their parents. AOC is literally saying that defending the lives of innocents matter more than attacking genociders. When they are mixed together, you can’t target one without the other.

So yeah, the Iron Dome protects genociders, but it also protects their kids and other innocent people. It actually protects civilians and their children far more than it protects the politicians who don’t even live there.

I get your point, but my point was about Israel’s privilege to act without consequences. If their children were put at risk by their genocidal actions, they might be incentivized to, I dunno, not be genocidal psychopaths.

Imagine its the USA commiting genocide and bombing Mexico or something, and you do not support the actions of your country but your family is only alive because of the iron dome protecting you from the bombs that are just flying over your heads between these two countries.

Your family, which neither country cares about, is who AOC and other people like us are thinking of.

We are not in favor of either country-- we are on the side of humanity.