by Renee Parsons, Global Research:
Since the Federal legislature has seen corruption by a foreign entity, too frail and unstable to deny AIPAC’s lucrative benefits, the shift in loyalties represents a traumatic conflict within the American identity as a nation of anemic character.
The American public has already been informed about threats via the NDAA (2027 National Defense Authorization Act) HR 8800 integrating all US military-industrial complex with Israel via Section 224 creating the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.”
The NDAA has historically been considered a mega-huge annual legislation with 3,000 pages which not only funds the Pentagon but frequently contains a minutia of details buried deep within the document that potentially alters the course of US foreign policy and sometimes beyond.
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At issue is Section 224 entitled “United Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Legislative Provisions” which would require the Secretary of Defense to designate an “executive agent responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the United States and Israel, including bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation including more cooperation on missile defense, AI, “joint training exercises” with increased collaboration across “government, private sector, and academic institutions” in the U.S. and Israel.
There is nothing in this language to suggest that the Executive Agent will be an American; there is everything to suggest that this “Cooperation” will increase America’s militaristic agenda at the urging of Israel with the sacrifice of our own young men and women, focused on a militarist war campaign such as Iran as its totalitarian partner continues to spread death and despair globally as Israel has become the most hated country in the world.
In other words, Section 224 will provide Israel with an invasive presence which will ultimately expand and coordinate every element of the US military industrial complex to be coordinated by an ‘executive agent responsible for synchronizing efforts’ who may not be a US citizen.
The 2027 NDAA was authorized late in the day on June 4th on a 44 – 12 vote by the House Armed Services Committee with thirty Republican and twenty seven Democratic Members. The majority of its Committee Members are AIPAC recipients which gives you an idea of where their legislative loyalties lie.
In the Chair’s opening statement justifying a $1.1 trillion Pentagon budget, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala) spoke of a
“decline in readiness, critical oversight function for too long we have underfunded defense and now we seeing our munitions are low and we do not have enough aircraft and autonomous systems to ensure victory over every adversary” which begs the question of how previous Billion dollar Pentagon budgets have been frittered.
The full Committee claims to have spent fourteen hours reviewing and adopting almost 900 amendments until final passage was approved authorizing a $1.15 Trillion budget. The roll call vote on final passage remains a mystery and cannot be found at the Armed Services Committee website or at the Committee Repository which is allegedly a central location for all recorded votes.
Since committee mark-up of the NDAA can be viewed on line, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass) offered an amendment that would require a total financial accounting of the Iran war as Chair Rogers suggested that Iran ‘was not a war of choice’ as if the US was forced to attack Iran because of extenuating circumstances. Moulton’s amendment was defeated 30-27.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal) then offered an amendment to strike 224 from the NDAA pointing out that Americans are not interested in Netanyahu dictating US policy and expect fewer blank checks to Israel. Khanna’s amendment did not acquire sufficient voice votes to gain a potential recorded vote; thus leaving 224 intact.
