By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
With the vote of 216 congressmen that critics say is tantamount to treason, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which will irrevocably entangle the U.S. and Israeli militaries, and some say, give Israel control of the American military policy.
Not a single Republican voted against the imprudent measure. Two did not vote. Lauren Boebert of Colorado explained that she was meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when the vote occurred.
Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democrat Ro Khanna of California led a valiant but unsuccessful fight against the bill.
The Senate must pass its version of the bill, after which it will go to a conference committee. That committee will hammer out one bill that will return to the two chambers for a final vote.
First numbered 224 and now numbered 219, the measure shoe-horned into the NDAA would merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries, giving the Middle Eastern nation no small measure of control over the Pentagon and U.S. military policy.
Section 219 will “expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation,” the measure says, by a number of means, including:
• identifying jointly developed or Israeli-origin technologies with operational utility for potential integration into United States systems and programs … ;
• ensuring collaborative research initiatives involving government, private sector, and academic institutions in the United States and Israel, … in a manner that protects sensitive technology and information and the national security interests of the United States and Israel; …
• establishing frameworks for joint ventures, licensing agreements, and United States-based co-production or manufacturing partnerships with Israeli industry.
The two militaries would cooperate on “missile and air defense technologies” as well as cyber-defense, electronic warfare, and artificial intelligence.
The measure gives Israel — notorious for hostile espionage against the United States, its main benefactor — unprecedented access to U.S. national-security secrets.
The measure “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,” Ben Freeman explained for Responsible Statecraft:
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.
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/ndaa-passes-house-with-u-s-israel-military-merger-massie-massive-betrayal/
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