cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46804253
…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 — given the dwindling American support for Israel’s wars and U.S. military assistance for them.
Things are about to get so much worse if this isn’t stopped.
its such a weird loop between the usa and israel. Usa taxpayers give money to israel. Some of it goes to give israelis free healthcare and university. Some of it comes back via AIPAC to usa politicians who then vote for things the israelis want. Somehow the interests of usa taxpayers aren’t considered.
American voters did support giving funds to Israel for decades. Saying that you want to cut funding for Israel was political suicide until recently.