{"id":5630,"date":"2026-07-29T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:07:01","slug":"looney-anti-israel-conspiracy-theorists-find-fresh-fodder-in-us-defense-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5630","title":{"rendered":"Looney anti-Israel conspiracy theorists find fresh fodder in US defense bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congress has been known to slip indefensible special-interest provisions into large must-pass bills when no one is looking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What it has never done before is use such sleight of hand to hand over control of the US military to a foreign country, but that\u2019s what we\u2019re told is on the verge of happening on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act, a sprawling $1.15 trillion bill that supposedly includes a provision buried in it \u201cmerging\u201d the US and Israeli militaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This provision, known as Section 219, has united some of the most fervent anti-Israel conspiracy theorists on the right and the left in denouncing the alleged betrayal of America, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to\u00a0 AOC, from Tucker Carlson to Cenk Uyghur.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AOC has warned that the provision \u201cis an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marjorie Taylor Greene has said anyone who voted for the bill \u201csold out the American people to a foreign country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson wants literal treason trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, what is the substance of Section 219? Legislation often has obfuscatory titles but this provision is deemed, with admirable clarity, The United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It calls for the secretary of Defense to designate \u201can executive agent\u201d to coordinate\u00a0between the US and Israel on \u201cbilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pentagon will come up with a plan for such cooperation and report back to Congress.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. There is nothing about merging the general staffs of the US military and the IDF; nothing about creating a joint office where Pete Hegseth and his Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz, work together; nothing about giving Bibi Netanyahu partial control of CENTCOM.<\/p>\n

That the United States would want a close working relationship with Israel on military technology is hardly surprising.<\/p>\n

Israel is one of the world\u2019s most innovative societies and, given its precarious security environment, has become a leader in advanced defense technologies.<\/p>\n

That a nefarious interpretation of the bill has gotten some traction underlines how any preposterous lie, so long as it\u2019s about Israel, gets a hearing these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Like many conspiracy theories, this one depends on a dark view of American society.<\/p>\n

We are allegedly so corrupt that we are handing control of our military to a foreign country without any senior military leaders or officials in an \u201cAmerica First\u201d administration lodging a complaint.<\/p>\n

No wonder Tucker Carlson wants the kind of tribunals that attended the end of World War II.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the first Nuremberg Trials, Wilhelm Keitel was found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged; at the second Nuremberg Trials, Mike Johnson will be found guilty of supporting mutually beneficial technology-sharing between allies \u2014 means of execution yet to be determined.<\/p>\n

One perversity here is that Bibi Netanyahu conceives of the technological cooperation as a substitute for the US military aid that he supports phasing out.<\/p>\n

In other words, enemies of Israel oppose US military aid and when a constructive plan is offered for how to go about ending it, they oppose that, too, as an Israeli plot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Another perversity is that the United States should want a very close relationship with Israel regarding, say, missile defense, an area where Israel excels and that, as we\u2019ve seen in the Ukraine and Iran wars, is\u00a0crucial to modern warfare.<\/p>\n

And yet, the same people who portray themselves as zealously protective of the US national interest want us to turn our back on a source of technological advance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israel naturally fits in the Western alliance, but nations ultimately pursue their selfish interests.<\/p>\n

If we spurn the Jewish state out of irrational animus, it will inevitably look elsewhere and perhaps build a stronger relationship with China.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, we will surely be told by the same people now obsessed with ending the US-Israel relationship that Israel showed its true colors and deserves even more of our scorn.<\/p>\n

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