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Israel itself is in favor of this, to reduce US influence on its arms exports. Everybody wins.
by da-x 4mo ago
Israel itself is in favor of this, to reduce US influence on its arms exports. Everybody wins.
- salemh 4mo agoIts just sleight of hand. Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/ Netanyahu Pushes Congress to Adopt a New Structure for US Military Aid to Israel https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-pushes-congress-to-adopt-a-new-structure-for-us-military-aid-to-israel/ https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-pushes-congress-to-a...
- ndiddy 4mo agoYeah the goal isn't to actually end military aid to Israel, it's to move the military aid under the vague DoD accounting process so nobody outside the DoD knows what's actually being sent.
- da-x 4mo agoThe "fuse the militaries / more susceptible to Israeli whims" framing seems to be the hand-wavy part of those articles. If you read the referred Section 224 you'd see details of the expanded scope of cooperation in tech domains and info sharing, and also in transparency and oversight.