Reject Section 224: No U.S.-Israel Military Integration

I demand that you reject Section 224 of the FY2027 NDAA completely and without delay. Section 224, the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” would direct the Pentagon to expand U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation, including research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation. It would create a Pentagon executive agent to coordinate this process and move the U.S. and Israel toward deeper military-industrial integration. This is unacceptable. The United States should not be entering into integrated military partnerships like this with any nation. It is especially outrageous to do so with Israel, a state responsible for decades of illegal occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, siege, forced displacement, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Congress must not pretend this is separate from military aid. Section 224 is not a substitute for aid; it is a dangerous escalation beyond aid. It would help entrench Israel inside U.S. weapons development, defense manufacturing, military technology systems, data-sharing, joint training, co-production, and procurement pipelines. That means less public visibility, less accountability, and more permanent U.S. complicity. Americans have demanded an end to weapons transfers and military support for Israel. Congress must not respond by hiding that support inside Pentagon bureaucracy, defense contracts, research programs, and industrial partnerships. Israel has caused immeasurable destruction in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and across the region. It has repeatedly sabotaged peace, violated ceasefires, expanded illegal settlements, blockaded civilians, and used U.S. protection to avoid accountability. The response from Congress should be sanctions, an arms embargo, an end to military cooperation, and full accountability for Israeli officials — not deeper military partnership. There must be no U.S.-Israel military-industrial merger. No joint weapons development. No co-production. No data-sharing. No integration of Israeli military technology into U.S. systems. No reward for genocide. Reject Section 224 outright. Do not amend it. Do not “improve” it. Remove it completely. I expect you to publicly oppose Section 224 and vote against any NDAA that includes it.