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I have no problem with AOC's ethical stance — mirroring that of El-Sayed's recent words himself noting protecting all children, including Israeli children. The needle can be threaded, and I condemn just as much those child deaths on O7 as I do the greater atrocity by Israel that came after, proportionally. Only the humane would.
Additionally AOC would later state that Israel can fund its own defensive systems and refused to further provide such aid. Presumably this is in part due to the risk of Israel misappropriating these resources as well.
Overall AOC rarely misses the mark, and I'm no single-issue voter. Climate Change, Women's Rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Healthcare, Support for Ukraine against the Ruzzian genocide, Campaign Finance / Election Reform, protection for immigrants, etc. — there is a lot to consider, and even within the framework of Palestinian human rights, we wouldn't have a problem standing up to Israel if every person in Congress was like her.
We need to remind ourselves too that Democrats are better for civilians than Republicans in every way and end more wars than they start, at least in the past 30 or so years. For example, Trump with Musk's help gutted USAID, which has now led to over 600,000 civilians deaths in just a year's time, and continuously rising. That dwarfs the deaths in Gaza and Ukraine, combined. Naturally one atrocity does not detract from another, but it's important to put into context the Greater Evil in what is often an inevitably binary-choice outcome for elections. In other words, never let perfect be the enemy of better.
The existence of israel guarantees the continued death of Palestinian children. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
The rest of your points are fair but I don't trust her. I don't trust any Democrat (or other politician) unconditionally, but Ilhan Omar is by far in the lead for me. I hope I'm wrong about AOC but that vote tells me she's more of a political opportunist than a truly principled person - and changing when the winds blow differently could support that conclusion just as much as it could support the conclusion that she saw the error of her ways.
Right, but the weak leadership of the Democrats (and their corruption in rigging the primaries against their populist uprising in the form of Bernie Sanders) enabled Trump's rise. So it's binary in the narrative, but under an oligarchy, it's really just one choice (so no choice) with different theatrical performances attached.