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.
This headline is confusing. Did they kill the bill to integrate the militaries? Because the headline leads me to believe that is what happened but it doesn’t make sense that pro-Israel voices would have wanted that.
You’re misreading the headline because it contains a scope ambiguity:
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1 would mean that they killed a bill whose aim was to stop military integration. 2 would mean they killed a bill, and their aim in killing the bill was to stop military integration.
You’re reading 2, but 1 is what the publisher meant. There was a move to integrate US and Israeli militaries. Then there was a bill to stop this integration. But that bill got killed by pro-Israel votes, so the integration is still going ahead.
It is so backward that we have to have a bill proposed to stop what isn’t legal in the first place.
Yeah, just poorly worded.
“Bill to stop US Israeli military integration killed by AIPAC funded legislators.”
Fixed for accuracy.