by R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
Critics of aid to Israel say President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour election appeal saying he would end this nation’s almost $4 billion annual commitment to Israel is a hollow promise.
The reason: The money will simply move from the State Department budget to the Pentagon’s because of a little-known codicil tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act of 2027 (NDAA). The measure would essentially merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Trump said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed that the aid must end. But that claim is rather disingenuous too, given that Netanyahu himself wants the U.S. and Israel to become “partners,” as he wrote in a letter to an Israel-first, GOP U.S. congressman…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the NDAA with the notorious Section 219 (formerly Section 224), which would all but merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. That would give the insignificant nation, which is of no importance to the average American, virtual control of the Pentagon and U.S. military policy.
Section 219 will “expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation”…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/critics-contradict-trump-aid-to-israel-not-ending-but-moving-to-pentagon-in-2027-ndaa/
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