🧵Tomorrow @HASCRepublicans & @HASCDemocrats will mark-up the FY2027 NDAA. Sec. 224 of the bill would enmesh Israel in the US military in unprecedented ways. Here are six reasons why Members should support @RoKhanna's amendment to strike Sec. 224.
1. By moving the subsidization of Israeli weapons makers to this co-development and co-production model, human rights standards that apply to other weapons transfers won't apply in this case. In other words, no way to hold Israel accountable.
2. Yet again, Congress is proposing to single out Israel for special privileges that no other country has. Israel would be the only country in the world w/ a special Pentagon Executive Agent advocating for its weapons makers.
3. Should we really be emulating Israel's dystopian use of AI to surveil, track, and kill Palestinians? And do we really want to fuse our data with Israel when that raises all kinds of privacy and espionage concerns?
4. This paves the way to limitless contracts given to Israeli weapons makers, potentially without even any appropriations made by Congress. Tens of billions of our taxpayer money could be going to Israeli firms every year under this model.
5. The US is obliged by international law not to contribute to grave breaches of international law. Giving contracts to Israeli weapons makers--some of which are government-owned--that profit from Israel's oppression of Palestinians violates those obligations.
6. We should ending all forms of weapons transfers, weapons cooperation, etc. with this genocidal apartheid regime, not deepening those relations. Americans across the political spectrum are sick and tired of supporting this regime.
Find the full policy memo here: imeupolicyproject.org/memos/congress…
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