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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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    2 days ago

    You’re misreading the headline because it contains a scope ambiguity:

    1. Pro-Israel voices win out, kill [bill to stop US-Israel military integration]

    vs

    1. [Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill] to stop US-Israel military integration

    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.