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No. of Recommendations: 8
Interesting provision has worked it's way into the US annual defense authorization bill in the House.
Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries
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 U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-milita...Does the US give that level of access to any other military, in the world? Integrate networks and data? What? The Israelis would not need to pay spies like Robert Maxwell and Jonathan Pollard to steal our military secrets. They can pull everything up on their terminal, legally.
...tell me again, who owns who?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 5
“Does the US give that level of access to any other military, in the world? Integrate networks and data? What? The Israelis would not need to pay spies like Robert Maxwell and Jonathan Pollard to steal our military secrets. They can pull everything up on their terminal, legally.
...tell me again, who owns who?”
I suspect that in the area of defense tech there’s more for the U.S. to gain from sharing than for Israel. It’s a price Israel is paying for American support. What Israeli defense industries could sell to America before, they will now give for free. Israel is right there at the top, alongside Ukraine, Russia, and Iran, in adapting to modern warfare at warp speed.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I suspect that in the area of defense tech there’s more for the U.S. to gain from sharing than for Israel. If it's so good for the US, why do we need to read about it in Israeli media?
Jerusalem Post:
Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie team up to strip US-Israel military tech cooperation from defense bill
“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…”https://www.jpost.com/international/article-898057Recall, Israel spent $16M on Massie's primary opponent to get Massie out of Congress.
Who owns who?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 4
Recall, Israel spent $16M on Massie's primary opponent to get Massie out of Congress.
Who owns who?
Trump meddles in Israeli politics to help Netanyahu. Netanyahu meddles in American politics to help Trump. One big happy crime family.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Trump meddles in Israeli politics to help Netanyahu. Netanyahu meddles in American politics to help Trump. One big happy crime family. Trump certainly helps "Bibi". I'm not sure what the Israeli government does is more about helping Trump, than helping Israel.
Haaretz (Israeli media) was to the point, about who benefited in KY.
The most consequential Republican primary for Israel is happening in Kentuckyhttps://x.com/haaretzcom/status/205677818433130107...Steve
No. of Recommendations: 5
I'm not sure what the Israeli government does is more about helping Trump, than helping Israel.
What the Israeli government does is more about keeping the Beeb in power and out of prison, than helping Israel. This government has been a disaster for Israel. The fact that most outsiders are unable to distinguish between the people of Israel and its government is tragic.
No. of Recommendations: 3
The fact that most outsiders are unable to distinguish between the people of Israel and its government is tragic. There has been a broad effort to conflate criticism of the current government with "anti-antisemitism", to make it a crime to criticize the government.
US political commentators denied entry to UK by Home Office
Two left-wing content creators have been blocked from entering the United Kingdom after they said the Home Office revoked their visas.
US citizens Hasan Piker, who is a Twitch streamer and political commentator and Cenk Uygur, who co-founded and hosts left-wing populist show "The Young Turks" on YouTube, were both due to speak at the SXSW London festival and an event in Oxford.
Uygur's show, The Young Turks, covers topics including US politics, global conflict, sports and pop culture and is one of the most popular shows of its kind on YouTube, attracting hundreds of millions of monthly views.
The Times reports that the decision to block Uygur is based on a range of things, including what the paper calls "antisemitic tropes, such as the claim that Israel controls America" and comments about grooming gangs he made on Piers Morgan's YouTube show.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2rxyvvl1oAll very reminiscent of when the Bush junta banned Yusuf, who had been speaking out against Bush's wars, claiming some charity he donates to "supports terrorism".
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 4
The fact that most outsiders are unable to distinguish between the people of Israel and its government is tragic.
There has been a broad effort to conflate criticism of the current government with "anti-antisemitism", to make it a crime to criticize the government.
That's been Beeb's playbook. Claiming that only he represents Israel and all the Jewish people. Therefore, any criticism of him is an antisemitic attack. Most Israelis have bought into this trope and they see antisemitism everywhere. It has practically become a paranoid obsession. They hate him domestically while serving as his useful idiots when facing outward. And the same trope has become pervasive among non-Jews too - all Jews are responsible for what the Beeb does, so in fact the antisemitism has become a self fulfilling prophecy.
No. of Recommendations: 3
The fact that most outsiders are unable to distinguish between the people of Israel and its government is tragic.
Many of us are crystal clear on that issue, elann.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Joe Kent made another appearance on TYT, to address the implications of giving the IDF full access to everything the US military does. And he confirms that no other country in the world has this level of access to the US military.
Israel Moves To DESTROY U.S. Sovereignty!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3didR3gAP3cSteve
