Video: Keith Ellison explains his vote against Iron Dome

Hot Air ^ | 8/3/14 | Jazz Shaw

[Nachum]

You may recall that on Friday, in what would have been a Christmas Miracle were it not several months early, Congress actually got something done. It was the passage of a bill approving $225M in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defensive missile system. It was quite the bipartisan effort in retrospect, garnering an overwhelming 395 votes in the House with only eight in opposition. One of those eight was Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, and as The Corner reports, he went out on the weekend gab circuit to explain why he didn’t support the measure.

“Because a cease-fire is what we should prioritize now,” he said when asked to explain his vote on Meet the Press. “A cease-fire protects civilians on both sides — it doesn’t just say, ‘We’re only concerned about people on one side.’”

He pointed to the devastation he witnessed during his trips to Gaza.

Let’s go to the brief video, and then we’ll carry on below that.

[ought-six]

No, and I wish I did.

[rmlew]

Why again are US taxpayers paying for this? The IDF can afford something like this.
1. Israel gives us technology.
2. The US has protected Hamas for 2 decades.
3. The US funds Hamas.

[rmlew]

Amash is a Palestinian

[cynwoody]

I’m going to take a shot in the dark here and say that Ellison saw some “logic” in saying that voting against Iron Dome funding was a way of supporting a cease fire. Mind you, this is only a guess, but I suppose he meant that if large numbers of Israeli civilians began dying because the rockets raining down on them started getting through, Netanyahu?would be more interested in a cease fire? Was that it?

No, Keith, you moron! Israel losing the Iron Dome would result in more dead wogs, not fewer.

Think about it: If the missiles keep falling, and the only way to stop them is at the source, then Netanyahu's rational response would be to loosen Israel's rules of engagement, resulting in more dead Gazan civilians. Netanyahu's one rational guy.

[Jane Long]

I didn’t know that. Thanks.