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Posted on 07/22/2026 7:07:59 PM PDT by Words Matter
US House of Representatives passes a $1.15T defense bill with provision deepening Pentagon-Israel weapons tech cooperation and funding $750M for joint defense programs.
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Great news.
Kudos
Was this the bill the retard Alex Jones claimed would put Netanyahu in charge of the Pentagon?
It is
Not good.
😃😆😂🤣🤣
Why not good?
Which specific details of the resolution are unacceptable? Why?
“Was this the bill the retard Alex Jones claimed would put Netanyahu in charge of the Pentagon?”
That would be the one. Alex Jones has always been a nutcase. He just makes stuff up.
**Was this the bill the retard Alex Jones claimed would put Netanyahu in charge of the Pentagon?**
“What Section 219 Would Do
Section 219 would direct the defense secretary to designate a Pentagon “executive agent” to oversee the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. That official would coordinate bilateral defense research, development, testing, evaluation and industrial cooperation.
“A June 1 letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu** also appeared to claim credit for the broader policy, describing a shift from U.S. aid toward joint defense cooperation, development, production and investment as “my plan.”
“The initiative would cover counter-drone systems, missile and air defense, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, autonomous systems, directed-energy weapons, advanced sensors, cybersecurity, electronic warfare, biotechnology and medical defense.
“It also contemplates joint testing, production, procurement, supply-chain coordination, network connections and the incorporation of Israeli or jointly developed technology into U.S. military programs.
“The House Armed Services Committee’s explanation states that the executive agent would be responsible for “synchronizing cooperative efforts” between the two countries. The statutory language would require the Pentagon to develop an implementation plan, coordinate with Israeli defense officials and report to congressional defense committees.
More: https://www.military.com/us-israel-defense-integration-horizon-house-keeps-section-219-ndaa
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**Netanyahu’s Jun 1 letter:
https://stutzman.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/stutzman.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/usa-rep-marlin-stutzman-defense-cooperation-1.6.26.pdf.pdf
I'm a little concerned, too.
Why are we doing this? What is in it for the United States?
Netanyahu has already asked Trump for the B-2 Spirit technology (he said no). As our "partners" would Israel have rights to access this technology and for the B-21 Raider now in the testing stage?
I'd like the reasons we are opening our Pentagon to another nation .... 🤔
It’s technology SHARING. The Israelis are very good. We want their stuff. They want ours.
I don’t like it either, but then I haven’t sold my soul to AIPAC.
Is that you, Jonathan Pollard?
Why are we doing this? What is in it for the United States?
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Nothing is in it for us, we don’t gain anything, but it’s a great deal for Israel.
Thisnis not good at all. From zerohedge:
What Section 219 Actually Does
Section 219 - numbered Section 224 in earlier drafts - directs the Secretary of Defense to designate an “executive agent” inside the Department of Defense whose mandate is to expand and accelerate joint research, development, co-production, and industrial integration with Israel across next-gen warfare domains: missile and air defense, counter-drone systems, cyber and electronic warfare, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, quantum technologies, directed energy, biotechnology, and defense manufacturing - with explicit pathways for moving Israeli-origin and jointly developed technology into US programs of record.
House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), who introduced the bill on May 13, has pushed back on the “merger” framing, saying the section simply designates a single senior official to coordinate cooperation that already exists, but critics say that’s exactly the point.
Executive agents are permanent bureaucratic machinery - they outlive administrations, and a statutory mandate to “expand and accelerate” only runs in one direction. The Quincy Institute, in a June analysis titled Cooperation without Oversight, argued the executive-agent authority makes the provision “significantly different” from America’s existing defense technology arrangements with any other allied nation. Once two industrial bases are physically intertwined - shared components, co-production lines, joint classified programs - no future Congress unwinds that with a floor amendment.
What “Executive Agent” Means
A June policy note by the Quincy Institute’s Steven Simon starts from an inconvenient fact for both sides of this fight: the United States does not need Section 219 to buy, co-develop, or field Israeli defense technology. Iron Dome, the Trophy active-protection system, and Barak missiles were all acquired under existing law - cooperative R&D authority under 22 U.S.C. § 2767(j)(1), plus standard Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales channels under the Arms Export Control Act. Whatever the initiative is for, it is not access. Its real impact is structural.
The structure is the executive agent. Under DoD Directive 5101.01, an executive agent’s authority takes precedence over other Defense Department component heads within its assigned scope - meaning the Israel-cooperation agent could overrule determinations by offices like the Defense Technology Security Administration, the Pentagon body that manages the risks of transferring defense technology and critical information abroad. Pair that precedence with a statutory mandate to “expand and accelerate,” and the note’s conclusion follows: wherever an internal office pushes back on a transfer or an integration step, the agent exists to push it through. State Department export-control channels would still operate independently, and programs must comply with existing law - but inside the Pentagon, the tie would go to integration.
No other US ally has anything like this. Defense cooperation with the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, and NATO runs through the standard architecture - the under secretary of defense for policy and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency - with no dedicated agent holding precedence authority to promote one country’s participation in sensitive US programs. Proponents read the same structure as streamlining: one accountable senior official instead of a dozen scattered offices. Quincy reads it as handing Israeli defense firms “their own promoter in the Pentagon” - and recommends Congress strip the provision outright.
The note also supplies the missing context for why this is happening now. Section 219 is one piece of a broader, publicly acknowledged shift from aid to integration. The FY2026 NDAA already ordered a working group to study folding Israel into the National Technology and Industrial Base. A draft Senate intelligence authorization provision would mandate expanded intelligence sharing with Israel while limiting the president’s power to curtail it. And the endgame is not hidden: the Washington Post reported in June that Netanyahu himself backs the GOP effort to wind down the $3.3 billion in annual direct military aid in favor of integration and purchases, and House Resolution 1339 frames the transition, in its own title, as “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Initiative.” The concern Quincy raises is the one every aid critic should sit with: a $3.3 billion check is at least a number - published, debated, and voted on every year. Integrated supply chains carry no price tag and come up for no annual vote.
The entrenchment aspect is serious:the F-35 program already ran this experiment, and it is worth being precise about who paid for it. When Turkey was expelled from the program in 2019 over its purchase of a Russian air-defense system, Turkish industry was building roughly 1,000 parts in the global supply chain - and the costs of cutting it loose landed on both sides. Turkey lost its planned jets and its production share. But the United States - the party doing the expelling - did not walk away clean: late parts deliveries spiked, finished-jet deliveries went delinquent, and the already-delayed program slid further behind schedule, all documented by the Government Accountability Office. Fuse two defense industrial bases deeply enough, and the option of changing course quietly disappears - whatever the next decade brings.
The Israelis are very effective, technologically creative, and have just demonstrated they work well with the US military. It is clear that they are an extremely helpful ally.
This contrasts to the UK which couldn't get any ship of the Royal Navy out of port for weeks, and refused to let the US use bases on their turf. The rest of the European powers had the same problem with the use of resident American bases.
The US has chosen Israel as an ally.
The only reason I can think of is to destroy the U.S.
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