The U.S. and Israel are trying to permanently combine their militaries into a catastrophic imperialist force, in order to produce deadly weapons and technology together. This is happening as Israel keeps escalating violence in a wider war, bombing Lebanon, Iran, and Gaza and sabotaging any chance of a real ceasefire.
This dangerous proposal, Section 224, has been buried inside the annual military spending bill. In total, the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act carries a whopping budget of over $1 trillion in military spending.
On Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee shamefully voted to advance the bill, despite Rep. Ro Khanna’s efforts to remove the section integrating the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Now it heads to the Senate Armed Services Committee THIS WEEK. Contact your members of Congress right now and demand that they speak up.
Section 224 would integrate U.S. and Israeli weapons research, technology development, drone systems, AI programs, and military industries, and shield it all from future congressional oversight votes.2 It means U.S. military technology, intelligence systems, and research your tax dollars paid for, would run through a shared pipeline with Israel, a genocidal state that has repeatedly shown it acts in its own destructive interests.3
Netanyahu personally wrote a letter endorsing a bill for this very purpose, with similar language.4 And the Pentagon just raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to “critical,” citing concerns Israel is spying on top U.S. officials.5
The U.S. and Israel advanced this dangerous proposal now for a reason.
60% of Americans want to stop arming Israel. Many pro-Palestine candidates have been winning Democratic primaries, posing a threat to Republican control of Congress. So Republicans have buried U.S. military entanglement with Israel in the Pentagon budget, to make it permanent before time runs out.
Meanwhile Israel has been quietly negotiating another 10-year military funding commitment from the U.S. in the form of an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) agreement.6
Congress should be funding housing, healthcare, education, and climate resilience. The same politicians who say there's no money for any of that, somehow always find more for war. Like the $1 trillion in this 2027 military spending bill.
