Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries

[Nevilledog]

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.

Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.

Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.” In other words, the U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.

If fully enacted, this proposal would provide a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world. To be sure, the U.S. has worked closely with its NATO partners on co-production and shared supply chains, most notably via the Defence Production Action Plan. And, as the number one arms dealer in the world, the U.S. provides weapons to militaries across the globe. But that is mostly a one-way street, with the U.S. providing weapons to foreign buyers who only occasionally make parts for those weapons themselves, as in the case of the F-35’s global supply chain.

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[buzzycrumbhunger]

1. What the actual...

fuck?!

[2naSalit]

2. NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!!!

[jrthin]

6. My sentiment exactly!

[MontanaMama]

8. 100% NOPE.

The statistics and polling speak for themselves. They’re just going to keep funneling money to Israel on the down low. Dammit!

[2naSalit]

15. Yet another...

Thing we have to beat them over the head with to get the to do what we demand.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. Well said

[no_hypocrisy]

3. No, just No.

Trump as Commander-In-Chief is bad enough.

Having our military bomb the shit out of Tehran at Bibi's direction is indefensible. (Excuse the pun)

[yellow dahlia]

4. This is really bad. I say that a lot. But it really is.

[JBTaurus83]

5. Wasn't that fascist prick Netanyahu

Just saying a couple of weeks ago that Israel was going to phase out financial support from the US?

[Lovie777]

7. I can't see Senate agreeing with this...........................

Why in the world would the House do this?

[RT Atlanta]

9. NO

Dont want our nation's children dying at the behest and on behalf of israel.

[dalton99a]

10. "Let's kill Palestinians together!"

[orthoclad]

11. Terrorists with nukes need some loving.

[purr-rat beauty]

12. Bibi's blackmail must be bonkers

[duckworth969]

14. No, knock it off

[SSJVegeta]

16. UCMJ

[FakeNoose]

17. They left town until June ... how can Congress enact anything when they aren't there?

I don't think I trust this story, and I never heard of this publication. Who's behind this?

[Nevilledog]

18. Not hard to find out about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Institute_for_Responsible_Statecraft

[AZ8theist]

19. It was put out there by the Armed Services Committee

It's all there starting on page 43:

https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf