by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
There were quite a few excellent stories this week, so before we get started with this week’s blogs, I want to encourage people to check out this week’s honouarble mentions. Also, please remember we do have an old format vidchat scheduled for this Friday at 2PM US central time, weather permitting, of course. Though at this juncture they are not predicting any chance of severe weather, remember to check the Forum for any last minute schedule changes and updates. As this is an old format (with which I might try an experiment), that means you email your questions and comments directly to me no later than 10PM US Central time the Thursday prior to the vidchat. Also, and this is quite important, remember to put VIDCHAT QUESTIONS or VIDCHAT COMMENTS in the subject header of your email, all in capital letters. This helps me spot your emails and file them for inclusion in the vidchat, as I receive hundreds of emails, as you know.
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With that said, down to business; we’re already in the month of June, with almost a half a year behind us and another half to look forward to.
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This story was shared by many of you, and I have to admit that when I saw the story, I was angered, outraged, incredulous, and simultaneously not a little trepidatious and perhaps even a bit frightened. We’ll get back to my anger, outrage, incredulity, trepidatiousness, and fright and my reasons for them in a moment. Here are two versions of the story, shared by S.D., and V.T.(with our gratitude). As usual, our method in this blog will be to assume the story is true in its core elements for the purpose of extrapolating our usual implications and speculations.
Quite Coup Inside the National Defense Authorization Act
Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries
For the purposes of this blog, we will concentrate on the second story. In it we learn about the following choice little tidbit:
Buried in the House’sversion of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.
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.
If fully enacted, this proposal would provide a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world.
And not only this, there’s a further danger:
Section 224 would be a different beast entirely. It would fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors in multiple areas vital to the battlefields of the future, like autonomous systems and cyber. It would also bring extraordinary Israeli influence to the U.S. beyond what it already has through the Israel lobby and its robust network of social media influencers. It would give the Israeli government the opportunity to greatly expand one of the most powerful levers of influence in U.S. politics: jobs in the U.S. By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi and Arkansas, the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on U.S. soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie.
The result could well be a U.S. political system even more susceptible to the whims of an Israeli government that seemingly has no qualms about drawing the U.S. into military conflicts in the Middle East.
So what does all of this add up to? What are the potential implications, beyond those of increasing Israeli influence over American policy and corresponding loss of American sovereignty over its own affairs? The potential answers are both so deep and so broad that one scarcely knows where to begin. At a time that the USA is publicly cajoling and condemning the lack-luster financial commitments of its European allies to their own defense, and threatening to revamp NATO, it is creating a financial and military relationship with a nation that has never been a formal ally that far exceeds any commitments it has made to Europe. At the heart of this “deal” is, as the article notes, the creation of a kind of jointly-owned “state arsenal”, an Israeli-American defense company whose ostensible purpose will be to coordinate research and weapons development (thereby “simplifying” logistical support), procurement, and so on. Behind this rosy language there looms much more disturbing possibilities, namely, that this company will become a nexus of money laundering, technology transfer, espionage (and we need not say who will be doing most of the spying), and “policy influence”. In other words, take the terms “Israeli lobby” and give it capital stock in an American defense industry, and direct access to American military research. If one was looking for evidence of the pervasive influence of the whole evangelozionist lobby and theology on American policy and government, one need look no farther. The defeat of Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie was merely the first, not the last, example of what will now happen. (And ask yourself this: how much of that money that was spent by that lobby on Massie’s defeat came ultimately from the American taxpayer, laundered through innumerable corporate fronts and cutouts?)
