US Congress moves to merge US and Israeli militaries — with Israel ‘leading’

A bill before the US Congress seeks to essentially merge the US and Israeli militaries — with many saying it puts the IOF in the driving seat. Many would say the IOF already is, of course.

The ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative’ has been described as a “sweeping proposal” to merge the two militaries to an “unprecedented degree”. Foreign policy thinktank Responsible Statecraft said that “Section 224”:

lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of US-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.

Others put it more succinctly, like Arab-Jewish ‘ex-Israeli’ analyst Alon Mizrahi:

They are not linking the US and Israeli militaries, they are putting the American military-industrial complex and every defense-related research in the US under the command and supervision of Israel. The US will have no more secrets; everything will be formally in Israel’s hands https://t.co/TOyPIcAC9i

— Alon Mizrahi (@alon_mizrahi) May 30, 2026

US Congress merging militaries — ‘All but fused’

Responsible Statecraft’s Ben Freeman noted that the move will “all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together”. Military systems will be merged, Israel would have unrestricted access to US military technologies and the US would be forced to use Israeli technology. Former US state department official Josh Paul agreed with Mizrahi about who would be running the show, adding that the bill is designed to make it impossible to “root out” Israel’s influence from the US military:

What Congress is trying to do now is find different ways of entrenching the relationship so deep in America’s own defence industrial base that it’s impossible to root it out.

… A new section of law in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would give Israel unprecedented access to American technology and would force the United States military to integrate Israeli defence technologies into our own critical military supply chain, giving Israel incredible leverage over America’s own defence priorities.

The bill is also designed to circumvent US laws banning the US from supplying military hardware and assistance to militaries engaged in war crimes. If there is no legal difference between the US military and Israel’s genocide force, there is no ‘supply’, simply logistics.

The terror states are formalising a merger that can only harm ordinary people, if this bill goes through. With both US parties stuffed with Israel-funded lobbyist-politicians, it looks unlikely to fail.

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