Shh, Don’t tell anyone: Cutting Iron Dome funding is good for Israel

When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots—forces larger than yours—have no fear of them, for Hashem your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy

20:

1

(the israel bible)

October 6, 2021

2 min read

“Today, [Sen. Rand Paul joined Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)] in not supporting emergency funding for Iron Dome,” AIPAC said in a tweet. “Their objections to funding Iron Dome undermine Israel’s security, cost innocent lives, make war more likely and embolden Iran-backed terrorists.”

At first glance, it would appear as though AIPAC has a point – cutting US funding to the Iron Dome rocket defense system appears to be a US abandonment of Israel’s security.

The fact that the initiative was sponsored by anti-Israel politicians like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib seems to support that assessment as well.

But what if I told you that cutting funding to the iron dome system is actually the best possible outcome for Israel’s security?

Sounds crazy right? Before you get all judgy, just consider the following: During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel was in dire need of arms reinforcements including tanks and warplanes that were expected to arrive from Washington. The problem was that President Nixon held up the transport fearing a confrontation with Arab leaders in the Gulf States. This ‘embargo’ almost cost Israel the war and would have resulted in the young country’s untimely destruction. 

You’d think that after such a close call, Israel would have learned its lesson with regards to relying so heavily on US aid…Apparently not. 

After Congress initially voted against the proposal, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called the vote an “important moment” adding that: “There’s a small anti-Israel group that makes a lot of noise, but those guys failed.”

Now consider one of Senator Rand Paul’s reasons for holding up the Iron Dome aid: “I want Israel strong enough so it does not have to rely on American support.”

It’s hard to argue with that. It seems as though Paul learned lessons from Israel’s historic wars that Bennett never considered. And the result is that today, Israel has a military that’s on welfare from Uncle Sam. It simply cannot survive if another Yom Kippur war-like scenario pops up again. That’s why it is high time for Israel to start becoming self-sufficient, not just in agriculture, but in defense as well. It’s time to stop reflexively assuming that everything initiated by Omar and Tlaib is necessarily against Israel’s interest even if that was their initial intention. It’s time to stop assuming that a country in $30 trillion debt that borrows a million dollars a minute can bankroll Israel’s security. 

And if Israel can’t continue funding the Iron Dome system, who knows – perhaps Jerusalem will revert to a cheaper and more effective way to end the rocket attacks on its south: by actually killing the terrorists launching them. (I know, crazy, right?) 

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