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 understand what you’re saying, and I agree with the intent, but I don’t agree with it. If the people of Israel have to face consequences for their actions, they might take a stand and force their government to stop. They aren’t innocent until they’re doing what they can to force a cessation of the violence. As long as they feel safe they won’t feel the pressure to stand up. I don’t like it when people die, but I also recognize that sometimes it can save lives in the long-term.

A 6 month old baby who has no control over being born in Israel literally can’t do anything to help the cessation of violence. The elderly, disabled, ill, or abused, literally can’t do anything to help the cessation of violence.

There are a lot of people that have no ways or means to do anything to stop what Israel is doing. They are just stuck there.

So I don’t think their deaths should be viewed as a necessity to stop this conflict just because Israel is hiding behind them.