Letters to the Editor September 27, 2021: AOC vs Israel: It's a Dome deal
| Published date | 26 September 2021 |
| Author | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
| Publication title | Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel) |
Nowhere do they mention the basic human rights of Israelis to live in peace, without fear of attack. Mention is not made of the reason for the aggressive network of tunnels in the first place, that Hamas has been escalating its attacks on Israel for a decade and a half, and that its raison d'etre is to completely destroy Israel.
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And what about the right of Gazan citizens and their children not to be used as human shields to deter Israel from taking out the attack sites?
AOC has been pretty quiet as of late, only showing up in a recent $35,000-a-plate Met Gala in a $30,000 dress bizarrely displaying the slogan "Tax the rich."
She and her squad are also fully silent over the recent debacle in Afghanistan, ignoring completely the botched exit and the killing of 13 American service people by the terrorist Taliban. Also not mentioned is the botched retaliatory US raid purportedly against the terrorist group, but which we now know killed no terrorists and at least 10 innocent people, including seven children, and is now described as a "non-success."
US President Joe Biden brags that the whole Afghanistan fiasco was a success, saying that only 10% of the Americans in Afghanistan were left behind. Where is AOC's outrage now?
DAVID SMITH
Ra'anana
When Donald Trump was president, AOC ridiculously called refugee centers in Texas "concentration camps." Now that Joe Biden is president, the crisis on the US border is many times worse, yet AOC now has nothing to say about it because the Democrats are in power.
Instead, she is unleashing her energy and rhetoric full-throttle against Israel ("Is AOC's deplorable Iron Dome move a shift for the Democrats?" September 25), trying to deprive Israel of the ability to defend its citizens – including real concentration camp survivors and Israeli Muslims – with its miraculous (but expensive) defensive Iron Dome."
The Arabs who recently raised a Nazi flag in a village near Hebron must surely be pleased and encouraged by the likes of "the Squad" and their supporters.
ARLENE FAUNCE
Bat Yam
The House Democrats, led by AOC and the virulently antisemitic progressives, voted to remove funding for the Iron Dome defensive system, thereby virtually guaranteeing the death of hundreds if not thousands of Israelis – Jews and Muslims ("House Dems remove Iron Dome funding from upcoming budget," September 22).
This is the identical Democratic Party antisemitism led by FDR that refused to bomb the rail lines from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944-1945, thereby guaranteeing the death of 400,000 Hungarian Jews.
From FDR to AOC, no difference.
RICHARD...
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