Re: Top Democrat Opposes Trump's Sale of Heavy Bombs to Israel
Posted: 19 Sep 2026, 19:37
Ok, cheers that looks like it. Seems there was an unsuccessful attempt to stop the bill, which i may have misconstrued as successfully passed and implemented.jujigatame wrote: ↑19 Sep 2026, 15:14 You might be thinking of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... UTURES_Act
It hasn't passed yet I don't think. But this all has to happen relatively soon because the electorate has turned against Israel hard over the last couple years and once they start voting in more anti-Israel representatives measures like this are gonna be non-starters.
Pro-Israel voices on the House Armed Services Committee argued that reports about Section 224 — that Congress was trying to integrate U.S. and Israeli military systems as a way to entrench aid without proper oversight — were disingenuous and wrong.
In fact, members claimed that these were “existing initiatives” and that Section 224 “actually improves oversight and accountability of these programs by designating a single official responsible for them,” according to Chairman Mike Rogers, (R-Ala.)
Not quite true, said the Quincy Institute’s Ben Freeman, who broke the initial story of Section 224 for RS last week. “Members of Congress supporting the proposal laid out caricatures of critiques against Section 224. And when they did actually talk about the provision itself they spread half-truths and outright inaccuracies about how far this provision will go to integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors.”
According to Freeman, as reported in these pages, Section 224 would lay 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.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-is ... -congress/