THE INTEGRATION OF ISRAELI AND AMERICAN MILITARIES?

There were quite a few excellent stories this week, so before we get started with this week's blogs, I want to encourage people to check out this week's honouarble mentions. Also, please remember we do have an old format vidchat scheduled for this Friday at 2PM US central time, weather permitting, of course. Though at this juncture they are not predicting any chance of severe weather, remember to check the Forum for any last minute schedule changes and updates. As this is an old format (with which I might try an experiment), that means you email your questions and comments directly to me no later than 10PM US Central time the Thursday prior to the vidchat. Also, and this is quite important, remember to put VIDCHAT QUESTIONS or VIDCHAT COMMENTS in the subject header of your email, all in capital letters. This  helps me spot your emails and file them for inclusion in the vidchat, as I receive hundreds of emails, as you know.

With that said, down to business; we're already in the month of June, with almost a half a year behind us and another half to look forward to.

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This story was shared by many of you, and I have to admit that when I saw the story, I was angered, outraged, incredulous, and simultaneously not a little trepidatious and perhaps even a bit frightened. We'll get back to my anger, outrage, incredulity, trepidatiousness, and fright and my reasons for them in a moment. Here are two versions of the story, shared by S.D., and V.T.(with our gratitude). As usual, our method in this blog will be to assume the story is true in its core elements for the purpose of extrapolating our usual implications and speculations.

Quite Coup Inside the National Defense Authorization Act

Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries

For the purposes of this blog, we will concentrate on the second story. In it we learn about the following choice little tidbit:

Buried in the House'sversion of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision 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 has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.

Section 224 lays 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.

If fully enacted, this proposal would provide a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world.

And not only this, there's a further danger:

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 and its robust network of social media 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 and 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.

So what does all of this add up to? What are the potential implications, beyond those of increasing Israeli influence over American policy and corresponding loss of American sovereignty over its own affairs? The potential answers are both so deep and so broad that one scarcely knows where to begin. At a time that the USA is publicly cajoling and condemning the lack-luster financial commitments of its European allies to their own defense, and threatening to revamp NATO, it is creating a financial and military relationship with a nation that has never been a formal ally that far exceeds any commitments it has made to Europe. At the heart of this "deal" is, as the article notes, the creation of a kind of jointly-owned "state arsenal", an Israeli-American defense company whose ostensible purpose will be to coordinate research and weapons development (thereby "simplifying" logistical support), procurement, and so on. Behind this rosy language there looms much more disturbing possibilities, namely, that this company will become a nexus of money laundering, technology transfer, espionage (and we need not say who will be doing most of the spying), and "policy influence". In other words, take the terms "Israeli lobby" and give it capital stock in an American defense industry, and direct access to American military research. If one was looking for evidence of the pervasive influence of the whole evangelozionist lobby and theology on American policy and government, one need look no farther. The defeat of Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie was merely the first, not the last, example of what will now happen. (And ask yourself this: how much of that money that was spent by that lobby on Massie's defeat came ultimately from the American taxpayer, laundered through innumerable corporate fronts and cutouts?)

But this still does not exhaust all my reasons for anger, trepidation, and even a certain amount for fear, for what this measure does is that it also discloses another, much more uncomfortable fact, namely, that America's relationship with Israel since its founding in 1948 has never been about geopolitics or oil. If America's relationships with Middle Eastern countries were about just those things, then geopolitical logic would seem to dictate that it would go out of its way to cultivate good relations with the local and regional Arab powers, not just Israel. Indeed, this was precisely the problem and argument foreseen and advanced by the late Secretary John Forrestal in the 1940s, when the issue first came up, and he almost alone in all of Harry Truman's cabinet opposed the proposed U.S. diplomatic recognition of the nation. (Odd and purely coincidental fact: he apparently decided to commit suicide by falling out of a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital.)  If the recognition and relationship was therefore not about standard geopolitics and international finance and energy, then it must have been about something else...

The corporate relationship also portends something far more sinister, whose outlines we are already seeing in American politics, namely, the calls from many people to criminalize any criticism or speech against Israel as being "anti-semitic. " Already laws have been passed in "conservative, freedom-loving" Florida that seek to do just that. In other states, attempts are being made to criminalize any open advocacy of boycotting that nation, and so on. People who reject the evangelozionist doctrine and who adhere to traditional Christian doctrine that the Old Testament blessings and cursings now apply not to Israel but to the Church are now labeled "anti-Semitic" and some have even argued that the first amendment must make an exception for any criticism of Israel, never mind that some of those critics have been Jewish! Indeed, some Jewish authors - Isaac Asimov, Hannah Arendt, Alfred Lilienthal among others - when looking at the whole issue of Zionism, maintained that it was a disaster for Jewish people for precisely all these reasons.

The trend, however, is clear: some are willing to resort to special privileges conferred by the state, and argue for their implementation in this case and on this one issue. They have already been successful in some states. Some outspoken American journalists have already been attacked as advocating terrorism and anti-Semitism - Tucker Carlson, an Episcopalian, and Candace Owens, a Roman Catholic, come to mind - for their open criticism of Israel and for reminding Americans that evangelozionism and "dispensensationalism" is not and never has been historical and traditional Christian doctrine.  Thus, if one was searching for the real reason that Mr. Biden's FBI was investigating "traditional Roman Catholics", this is it. That also means something significant,  namely, that the deep state is aware - with far more depth and perspicacity than most average Christians - that the traditional doctrine is a threat to the narratives and policies it wishes to develop and promote. All of this effort is a reminder that domestic policy in this country could take a very, very ugly turn: be a traditional Christian and uphold that traditional doctrine, and be cast in the public narrative and the lamestream propatainment media and its Congregations for the Propagation of the Evangelomasonozionist Faith as "unAmerican", i.e., as heretics.  All the other grizzly apparatus of oppression inevitably follows from that, and I do not need to remind this audience of what those apparatus included. It will start with IRS violations of non-profit and private tax law and the commensurate "audits." Any public statements in opposition to their narrative and in defense of the traditional doctrine will be taken as violations of those churches' non-profit status. Accordingly, those churches will either gradually succumb to the pressure and abandon their faithful, driving them underground, or they will lose their tax exempt status, and perhaps ultimately their property. In short, we are already hearing from this administration the disturbing dissonant harmonics of this very old fundamental. Indeed, one might argue that those churches will respond to such pressure by pointing out that laymen like Ms. Owens or Mr. Carlson have no "official status" and therefore do not represent their churches. "Fine," the government will say, "then we need a public statement from you to that effect, and that you support the evangelozionist doctrine." And that's when the rubber meets the road. Some will succumb, some will resist. Listen to the people screaming for special "hate speech" protections, or who are accusing those who criticize Israel as being terrorists, or who are putting "traditional Latin mass Catholics" on government watch lists, and so on, and ask yourself if you can trust them to protect the rights of traditional Christians.

And a few final notes and implications: for some time I and others have been arguing and advocating that an absolute end be made to the idea of dual citizenship and that people holding such can occupy public office or make significant political campaign contributions. But with the establishment of a dual-ownership state arsenal with two sovereign stakeholders, the end run is already accomplished. Add to this another implication: the old Reagan coalition that welcomed the presence of Christians within the GOP is shattered; it's over. The split is now along doctrinal lines, and those who adhere to, practice, and advocate the traditional doctrine are no longer welcome within that party. The message now is: if you disagree with evangelozionism, sit down, shut up, and maybe we won't throw the book at you. There's nowhere else to go, because the other party is too interested in projects of nuttery like merging wokery and Islamsocialism to be a home either.

And when there's nowhere to go, you pull up the stakes, and build a new home. Or to put that bit of political and cultural observation in a form that even a corrupt politician can understand: the first party that eshews Islamosocialist wokery while also explicitly rejecting evangelozionism, wins.

See you on the flip side...

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