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Posted on 06/04/2026 5:24:41 PM PDT by RandFan
A House committee summarily struck down an amendment to strip a measure from the massive annual defense policy bill that would provide Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration" with the U.S. than Washington has "with any other country in the world.”
Pro-Israel voices on the House Armed Services Committee argued that reports about Section 224 — that Congress was trying to integrate U.S. and Israeli military systems as a way to entrench aid without proper oversight — were disingenuous and wrong.
In fact, members claimed that these were “existing initiatives” and that Section 224 “actually improves oversight and accountability of these programs by designating a single official responsible for them,” according to Chairman Mike Rogers, (R-Ala.)
Not quite true, said the Quincy Institute’s Ben Freeman, who broke the initial story of Section 224 for RS last week. “Members of Congress supporting the proposal laid out caricatures of critiques against Section 224. And when they did actually talk about the provision itself they spread half-truths and outright inaccuracies about how far this provision will go to integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors.”
According to Freeman, as reported in these pages, Section 224 would lay 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.
Critically, it would shift the annual $3.8 billion the U.S. now gives Israel (a 10-year memorandum of understanding soon up for renewal) to these programs and partnerships, i.e. “co-production” and other “fusion” deep inside Pentagon procurement and acquisitions process, where sunlight is rare and often fleeting. A perfect solution — which is, by the way, endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to the dwindling American support for Israel’s wars and U.S. military assistance for them.
In his remarks on Section 224, Khanna spoke vociferously against what he saw as a blank check at a time when a majority of Americans say they do not want to send more military aid to Israel.
“The American people are tired of the arrogance and insolence of Prime Minister Netanyahu telling America what we should do. The entire country of Israel has a GDP that is less than a single town in my district, yet somehow Netanyahu thinks he could tell the American people what we should do,” he charged.
“I am for Team America. I am for the interests of this country, and I believe that's what Donald Trump ran on. That includes American interests against any foreign country,” Khanna said. “We should have American sovereignty and make it clear that we strike 224. If we want to give aid to Israel, if we want to sell them weapons, that should be a vote for the entire Congress.”
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Israel doesn’t need our money today. In 1973, maybe, but not today. Our aid to Israel is coercive. We pay them NOT to nuke their implacable enemies.
Agree 100%.
Yes they do. But the issue here is whether it’s ok to give Israel access to our deepest darkest secrets. Hell they blackmail our leaders now just imagine how bad it would be if they managed to get their hands on something like this. I mean this is absolutely crazy. I’m starting to feel like I really do live in an Idiocracy.
Israel doesn’t need our money today. In 1973, maybe, but not today. Our aid to Israel is coercive. We pay them NOT to nuke their implacable enemies.
I’ll give you that one, i was just thinking about this one today. This might actually be a legit reason for payoff money. We might just have to take more of a hard line with Israel. Remove AIPAC’s ability to sway our politicians. They need to be reeled in somehow. Im not gonna pretend that there is an easy solution.
You're FOS... America 2nd cuck. We gave them $30 billion in 2024 alone.
They'd be wiped right TF out without leeching off America.
Should we pull all our support, my only fear is a backed into the corner Israel using all their nukes. I 100% believe that they would. 100%. We need to find a solution to that problem.
Imho, This proposal will benefit USA more than it does Israel. (There are mutual benefits, yes.) I can’t help wondering if Jerusalem really would want the proposal. It might tie their amazing technologies too closely overseas. We will see.
Not as many times as USA has spied and given military intelligence to Israel’s enemies. What co greed is doing is moving towards a more straightforward cooperation. I’d suggest this is just one step in the larger alignment of America working with friendly countries instead of trying to continue pretending that alliances created in the 1940’s with countries whose governments have gone hostile or non- supportive for USA are adequate or even functional anymore in today’s new geopolitical world.
You’ve never even heard of the Lavi/J-10 connection?
If Israel were to use nukes in a war that they started or were viewed as the aggressor in then they would go the way of South Africa from endless boycotts. And besides now there’s more and more leaking out from the Pakistanis that Iran already has a crude bomb but hasn’t yet adapted it to a missile capable of delivering it. Some say Trump believes it’s possible and that’s why he’s been moderating his dictates recently.
Who knows for sure but if you’re living in Tel Aviv do you really want to risk it? Just 2 nukes would destroy Israel while military analysts estimate it would take 70-80 nukes to take out Iran because of its size.
While I generally support Israel, the problem, like with every other country, is that Israel will generally act in Israel’s interests. Sometimes, those interests are not our interests.
So it would seem prudent to limit our co-operation agreements to what they are now.
AIPAC has every right to influence our Congress in favor of Israel. It would seem prudent for their leadership to register as foreign agents, however.
“CUT IT ALL.
Im tired of giving my hard earned money to people who really don’t like us. They all pretend to like us so they can get our money. So yeah, cancel all aid.’
I agree. We have more zeros in the amount of our national debt than anyone can count. We don’t have the money to support our own military, let alone any other country’s military. Share information? Yes. Give money or weapons systems away? No.
So what? They spent 96% of that on U.S.-made armaments = jobs for Americans.
We gave Puerto Rico $33 billion the same year. We got $3.5 billion back in taxes - a net $30 billion LOSS.
We give that useless island $33 billion EVERY SINGLE YEAR. TEN TIMES what we normally give Israel (and Egypt) every year.
For what? Bad Bunny?
Yeah, yeah . We have gone through this 100 times here. You all are boring .
YAWN
And as an alternative to colonoscopy, Israelis also invented the swallowable “camera in a pill,” known as capsule endoscopy. The device, famously known as the PillCam, was developed in the late 1990s by electro-optical engineer Gavriel Iddan and gastroenterologist Dr. Eitan Scapa. It was commercialized by the Israeli company Given Imaging and received FDA approval in 2001.
Define "ally".
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