Posted on 06/04/2026 2:54:23 AM PDT by RandFan
In one of the latest examples of political extremes converging over Israel, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie joined forces this week to challenge a provision expanding US-Israel defense cooperation.
Khanna, a progressive California Democrat, and Massie, a Kentucky Republican, both said over the weekend that they would seek to remove a provision from the House’s annual defense bill that would expand US-Israeli defense technology cooperation.
The section of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2027 that Khanna and Massie have taken aim at would require the Secretary of Defense to designate an “executive agent responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the United States and Israel, including bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation.”
The cross-ideological alliance marked the latest instance of the progressive Democrat and libertarian Republican finding common cause on Israel-related foreign policy, after the pair previously teamed up to oppose US involvement in Israel’s war in Iran last year.
“If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the US and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor,” Massie, who lost his bid for reelection last month against a President Donald Trump-endorsed primary opponent, wrote in a post on X. “We are a sovereign country…”
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More likely they run together.
I hope Ro runs for president . Republicans will win 48 states
Which defense contractorleaned on them?
210 days.
I dont know about that but on their side AOC is quite prominent. Interestingly, both are in the House and have sought to raise their profile from there.
When are these anti-Israel clowns going go up against our syncing and synergy with NATO? Such as trying to make for common ammunition sizes.
Boy, you pick some losers.
Gee, two radical antisemites don’t like cooperation with Israel.
Shocker.
Now you see Masshole for exactly who he is.
Masshole running for president? You simply are intellectually bankrupt and could write articles for the onion.
Clearly you have no idea how things work in this country.
But hey, I state the obvious.
Congress needs a sore loser rule. Incumbents that have lost their primary are out. Period. The leader of that party picks thier temporary replacement.
Let’s just watch who shows up to be on the side of socialist Khanna and loser anti-Trump Massie.
“Politics is a freak show and you have a ringside seat” -George Carlin
Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries
FR Posted on 5/29/2026, 1:25:05 PM by Ultra Sonic 007
In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House’s 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together.
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 US military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.
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long read
That’s for sure!
Hey, we agreed on something!
Time to buy a lotto ticket…
Yeah, it’s not ok at all
The fact that a demographic of people supports this crap is amazing
The fact that a demographic of people supports this “integration” crap is amazing.
Patriots, Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.
Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
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Send a letter to the White House
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As of January 2026, the US finalized $6.67 billion tax
dollars in arms for Israel to enhance defense capabilities:
<><>new gifts of Apache helicopters,
<><>gifts of armored vehicles,
<><>and US tax-dollars for vehicle power packs
This builds on significant ongoing, long-term US tax dollar military assistance
and “emergency” US tax dollars for killings in Gaza and Israel’s need for “security.”
Key Components of Recent 2026 “US taxpayer gifts” to Israel:
<><>$3.8 billion tax dollars for 30 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters
<><>and related arms equipment.
<><>$1.98 billion US tax dollars for Joint Light Tactical Assault Vehicles (JLTAVs).
<><>$740 million tax dollars for Namer armored personnel carrier power packs.
<><>tax-dollar subsidized utility helicopters
<><>plus unnamed other US tax-subsidized equipment.
Congress earlier approved over $14 billion in tax
dollars for defense, replenishment of systems, and other Israeli “security” needs.
<><>a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
<><>covers $38B US tax dollars in military aid 2019–2028
<><>$33B tax dollars in weaponry “gifts”
<><>$5 billion tax dollars in missile defense gifts.
<><>including precision-guided munitions and bunker busters.
Speaking of Massie:
Thomas Massie: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.”
The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn’t keep it secret.”
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2062411265700466961?s=20
Speaking of Massie:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna
After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me.
I will be filing charges.
https://x.com/RepLuna/status/2062239687264075892?s=20
Related:
J @JayTC53
They are domestic terrorists. MTG was the one who leaked Trump’s location in DC when he went to eat and code Pink swarmed Trump.
They are a CCP funded terrorist group. MTG is implicated as well.
https://x.com/JayTC53/status/2062245490859680172?s=20
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