The Iron Dome prevents any military response to their bombs and blocking of humanitarian aid. They'd be much less likely to commit genocide without the Iron Dome
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The Iron dome isn't what block the humanitarian aid.
jul 22, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Israel is. And Israel is protected in their genocidal decisions by the Iron Dome. What you're doing is fundamentally no different than arguing that the allies should have paid for defensive weapons in Berlin in in 1940
jul 22, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 1 • view
"What you're doing is fundamentally no different than arguing that the allies should have paid for defensive weapons in Berlin in in 1940" It isn't actually. Because contrary to your example, there, it's actually possible to stop providing bombs to Israel without cutting off the Iron dome.
jul 22, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
And it is. It would be giving a genocidal state the means to shield itself from military action in response to aggression and genocide.
jul 22, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Shielding itself is not what is causing the genocide. What is causing it is the bombing and the blocking of aid.
jul 22, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
The shielding allows it to not be stopped by (fear of) military response. No one is arguing that it causes the genocide, we're pointing out that it's one of the things allowing it to continue
jul 22, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, it is. I am not arguing against that. What I am saying is that defensive weapons still support genocide for two reasons. First, it frees up money for offensive weapons and second it shields Israel from military responses to its aggression.
jul 22, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
And here is what I am arguing: it's possible to end the genocide by simply blocking offensive weapons coming to Israel. Hence the "when it's possible" part of my argument.
jul 22, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, that is possible. That doesn't mean that supporting Iron Dome funding is justified - it's not
jul 22, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
"That doesn't mean that supporting Iron Dome funding is justified" Seeing it's defensive and it's actually possible to end the genocide without disarming it, it actually is.
jul 22, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
"Seeing that Nazi soldiers are human and it's theoretically possible to end the Holocaust without killing them, we shouldn't kill Nazis" Genocide is one of those crimes that you end by almost any means necessary. The Iron Dome protects genocide so it must go
jul 22, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
"and it's theoretically possible to end the Holocaust without killing them" It actually wasn't. Hence why your comparison doesn't apply.
jul 22, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It is possible in the same way that it is possible to end the genocide while keeping the Iron Dome.
jul 22, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view