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AOC lifts the veil: She won’t help protect innocent civilians — so long as they’re Israelis

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens) is now opposed to funding defensive shields that could save the lives of innocent civilians — if they are Israelis.

Seems like she’s trying to win back the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America that spurned her in 2024 for not hating the Jewish state enough. Or maybe she’s just showing her true colors.

Her re-hardened anti-Israel position comes even though she isn’t facing any significant opposition in her re-election campaign, which raises and spends so much money it’s more like a good-sized business than a scrappy Bronx-Queens political operation; she doesn’t need the DSA’s endorsement.

But she got her fellow antisemitic socialists mad at her because she abstained from voting to deny funding for Israel’s strictly defensive Iron Dome project, which protects Israelis — Jewish and Arab — from the tens of thousands of missiles that have been lobbed from Iran’s regional terror proxies.

She didn’t vote for it, mind you . . . but not voting against it infuriated the “anti-Zionists” who think it’s unfair that Israel’s enemies don’t have Iron Domes of their own and have no problem seeing Israeli civilians obliterated.

AOC herself admits the Iron Dome “has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment.”

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But maybe that’s the problem: It works. The pro-Iran, pro-Hezbollah wing of the Democratic Party is bitterly disappointed that so few ballistic missiles have gotten past the Iron Dome to fulfill their AI-fueled fantasies of Tel Aviv burning.

AOC says Israel can afford to pay for its own defense, which is true, though this objection overlooks the cooperative nature of the Iron Dome project, which is a joint US-Israel venture.

The proposed “Golden Dome” to protect the US homeland draws on the example of the Iron Dome, and involvement in Israel’s missile defense gives us an invaluable source of real-life warfighting technical data.

AOC’s resumption of strident anti-Israel dogma will signal other Democrats that they can nudge themselves a few steps in that direction, too, especially the ones who have national ambitions.

Already, an increasing number of Dems, including Gavin Newsom, Cory Booker and Tom Steyer have announced that they will reject contributions from AIPAC.

But denying America’s vital ally, Israel, funds for a defensive measure that protects civilian lives is beyond that pale.

AOC has made it absolutely clear where she stands when it comes to the Jewish state,

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