(First article in a series)
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.” – George Washington, September 19, 1796 Farewell Speech.
Congress is considering two defense bills that if enacted, would significantly expand defense and intelligence cooperation between the United States and Israel. The measures, Section 622 of the Senate’s Intelligence Authorization Act, and Section 219 of the House’s National Defense Authorization Act, have raised concerns among critics who argue they would provide Israel with unprecedented access to U.S. military, research, technology and defense infrastructure.
These proposals would deeply integrate the military, industrial and intelligence capabilities of both nations, potentially compromising America’s independence in matters of national defense. The bills are not consistent with Congress’s constitutional responsibility to protect the nation’s sovereignty and security. These well founded concerns deserve complete transparency regarding the purpose, scope and long-term consequences of these proposals. Strategic benefits should be explained to justify such a far-reaching partnership and whether the interests of the United States are being placed first.
If enacted, these provisions would elevate Israel to an unprecedented level of defense and intelligence cooperation with the United States, expanding collaboration in cybersecurity, counterterrorism, sanctions enforcement and evasion, adversarial technologies, weapons proliferation, cruise and ballistic missile defense, artificial intelligence , quantum computing, autonomous systems, directed-energy weapons, biotechnology, and biomanufacturing.
These proposals would fundamentally transform the longstanding U.S.-Israel defense relationship into a far more integrated strategic partnership. Such an expansion would grant Israel extraordinary access to sensitive American research, technology, and
national security capabilities, raising serious questions about the protection of U.S. sovereignty, military independence, and control over critical defense assets.
This legislation calls for expanded network integration and data sharing between the U.S. and Israeli militaries, as well as the incorporation of Israeli-developed technologies into American defense programs. These provisions could expose sensitive U.S. defense systems and intelligence capabilities to unnecessary risk while reducing America’s ability to independently manage it’s national security infrastructure.
The bills would also limit the ability to suspend, reduce, or restrict intelligence sharing with Israel except when the President determines that a specific, and identifiable national security concern exists. The Acts mandate congressional notifications and certifications before the President can take certain actions. This would diminish U.S. oversight, reduce political leverage, weaken public accountability, and constrain presidential flexibility in responding to changing geopolitical circumstances.
The embedding of Israeli-developed software, components, or technologies into critical U.S. military systems could create strategic dependencies. In the event of future disagreements, such reliance could complicate military readiness, maintenance, or modernization efforts. The legislation would provide Israel with unprecedented access to America’s most advanced defense research, technologies, and operational expertise while binding U.S. national security interests more closely to those of Israel, interests that may not always align with those of the United States.
Israel’s relationship with the United States has at times, been marked by actions that have raised serious concerns about trust, transparency and reliability. These are issues that have received insufficient attention from the mainstream news media. These incidents warrant greater public scrutiny particularity when evaluating proposals for expanded defense and intelligence cooperation. Among the examples frequently cited by critics are the following. Each issue will be further detailed in future articles.
- JFK assassination involvement.
- Attack on the USS Liberty
- Beirut Barracks and the murder of 241 U.S/ Marines by truck bomb.
- Zionist/ NEO Cons and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
- Israeli Art Students spying on DEA officials prior to 9/11
- Israeli/Mossad cells in the United States prior to 9/11 living in proximity to terrorist cells, failure to give specific warnings.
- Urban Moving Systems and the “Dancing Israelis” arrested
- John Pollard, U.S. Naval intelligence, sentenced to life for violating the Espionage Act, spying for Israel.
- Death of reporter Danny Castallero, Promis software heist, Israeli back door cyber-espionage
- AIPAC officials, largest Israeli lobby in U.S. indicted for espionage
- Karen Silkwood, whistleblower, Kerr-McGee, OK, murder, missing plutonium sent to Israel.
- Murder of 13 United States citizens by Israeli soldiers and settlers in Palestine without justification
- Present spying on the U.S government, President Trump and his administration.
- Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to Israeli intelligence.
David Meiswinkle,
President,
National American Renaissance Movement