for others who aren’t following: the message here is that the interceptors are designed to protect military assets more than civilians (so it comes across as ingenuous or overly sympathetic to Israel to claim it’s primarily for protecting civilians)

I guess I would push back on this a bit, first of all in a colonial settler system, the line between civilian and militant is blurred a bit and I feel Israel intentionally weaponizes the civilian status of settlers and puts Israeli civilian lives at risk. (Even recently Israel has accidentally killed Israeli farmers during the on-going war against Iran.)

Regardless, I think it’s hard deny that the Iron Dome does intercept missiles fired into civilian centers, and thus has saved Israeli civilian lives - even if the Iron Dome is also used to protect military assets, that obviously does not nullify the Iron Dome’s protection of civilian lives. (This is just how defense systems are in conflicts in which civilians are often targeted.)

Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, fired rockets into northern Israeli population centers in the 1990s, posing a security challenge for the Israel Defense Forces. Israel had floated the idea of its own short-range antimissile system, but U.S. defense officials cautioned that it would be “doomed to fail”.

o the south, more than 8,000 projectiles (estimated at 4,000 rockets and 4,000 mortar bombs) were fired indiscriminately into Israel from Gaza between 2000 and 2008, principally by Hamas. Almost all of the rockets fired were Qassams launched by 122 mm Grad launchers smuggled into the Gaza Strip, giving longer range than other launch methods. Nearly a million Israelis living in the south were within rocket range, posing a serious security threat to the country and its citizens.

I think it might be better to criticize the Iron Dome as a kind of psychological crutch to resolving conflict, as it gives Israeli citizens a sense of safety and security, alleviating political pressure to avoid or resolve the conflicts that Israel stirs up.

The point is pretending that the “iron dome” is meant to protect civilians and not military assets.

That makes her statement worse not better. Now she’s framing it like she supports “innocent civilians” dying instead of Israel using interceptors to protect their military bases which is the primary target of the resistance.

They’re not