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Stop the merger of the IDF / Israeli military with the military of the USA. Section 224 " United States Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative " is one page hidden inside 3,000 page  Bill 8800. The New National Defense Authorisation Act. Released on May 26th by the house Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers. “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/israel/) has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948! 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! “Section 224 would be a different beast entirely. It would fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors in multiple areas vital to the battlefields of the future, like autonomous systems and cyber. It would also bring extraordinary Israeli influence to the U.S., beyond what it already has through the Israel lobby (https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-iiran-war-israel-us-foreign-policy/) and its robust network of social media (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/media/)influencers (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-paid-influencers/). It would give the Israeli government the opportunity to greatly expand one of the most powerful levers of influence in U.S. politics: jobs in the U.S.! By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi (https://www.wtva.com/news/local/general-atomics-partners-with-israeli-defense-company-to-produce-missile-at-tupelo-plant/article_405b9316-5e46-4a87-b14c-cf3fc9afbbe9.html) and Arkansas (https://www.rafael.co.il/news/r2s-opens-new-manufacturing-facility-in-east-camden-arkansas/), the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on U.S. soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie. The result could well be a U.S. political system even more susceptible to the whims of an Israeli government that seemingly has no qualms about drawing the U.S. into military conflicts in the Middle East” (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/regions/middle-east/). I strongly urge you to oppose this merger, as it is NOT in the best interest of the United States and it’s citizens/voters!