1. United States
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Vote no on Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA, the so-called "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative." This provision doesn't just continue military aid to Israel — it fuses the two countries' defense sectors in ways that go beyond what the U.S. has with any NATO ally, covering AI, autonomous weapons, quantum computing, cyber, and biotech, with provisions for "data fusion" that could give the Israeli military access to U.S. military data. The Quincy Institute's Steven Simon has warned that moving from an aid model to full military integration strips away the political and diplomatic oversight that annual aid votes provide, burying the relationship inside opaque defense acquisition machinery. Section 224 also deliberately creates co-production jobs in states like Mississippi and Arkansas to lock in congressional support — that's not defense policy, that's lobbying infrastructure. Only 16% of Americans support unconditional weapons supply to Israel, and 38% want to stop supplying weapons entirely. Congress is wildly out of step with the public on this. Reject Section 224.