Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and Kentucky’s secretary of state, is turning heads with her confusing answer to a question about the military conflict between Israel and the Hamas-led government in Gaza. Asked by the Lexington Herald-Leader about American support for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile-defense system, Grimes had this to say:

As the Washington Free Beacon has pointed out, Grimes’s statement shows a complete misunderstanding of the Iron Dome by conflating the issue of the missile-defense system with that of Palestinians in Gaza constructing underground tunnels in order to subvert the Israeli-backed blockade and bring in weapons from outside the territory.