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ImmortalFlow [4183143]

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-israel-military-merger

It’s called Section 219. Tucked away in the massive congressional spending bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, this provision of the law would effectively require our nation to permanently entangle the American military with the Israeli military.

Among other things, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative would require the US to share intelligence with Israel and establish a system of weapons research, development, and production, particularly in the domains crucial to warfare in the modern age: artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and various other fields of high defense technology.

The House provision, which has a Senate version known as Section 1217, would also forbid the president of the United States from limiting intelligence collaboration with Israel over its human rights abuses. If the President ever wants to limit such collaboration, he or she must tell Congress and can only cite American national security as a basis.

In other words, these bills would connect the US and Israeli militaries in unprecedented ways and make it exceedingly difficult for any future president to unwind this partnership with a foreign government.

If these bills pass in their current form, the US military would be more integrated with Israel’s than with that of any other country, including America’s NATO allies.

 

I think they're definitely planning a ground operation in Iran.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/13/airstrikes-intensify-between-us-iran

Trump says U.S. military will reimpose blockade on Iranian ports

The president said the U.S. will impose a 20 percent fee on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, contradicting official assertions that fees would violate international law.

The deal that the United States and Iran struck last month to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate over Tehran’s nuclear program was merely “a test,” President Donald Trump said Monday, dismissing what he said weeks ago was a “great deal” that could lead to broader peace across the Middle East.

Trump’s remarks in a radio interview came a few hours after he announced on social media that the Navy would reimpose a blockade of Iranian ports and notified Congress that he was resuming hostilities.

Collete [1389080]

It makes sense to work with them they have  the tech 

 

According to Israel's Defense Ministry, Israeli weapons sales have more than doubled over the past five years, with a record high of nearly $15 billion in 2024. While the ministry hasn't released overall 2025 figures, leading Israeli weapons makers, including Elbit and Israel Aerospace Industries, both reported double-digit sales growth last year.

More than half of the Israeli arms industry's sales are for missiles, rockets and air-defense systems. For the first time, Israel has surpassed the United Kingdom in its share of global arms exports, making it the world's seventh-biggest supplier, according to a March report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

 

SmuggledIn [3082399]

'It makes sense to work with them they have  the tech'

-Collete

 

Right. Their tech. Yet the world's most paranoid nation state known on the face of this planet, didn't see Oct 7th happening. And even more, it took them several hours to respond. 

 

Just kiddin. They totally knew.

 

Maybe it was Nutty-yahoo saying they would supposedly ween themselves off of American funds within 10 years time, and the mere thought of it got him shaking from withdrawals. I seriously wish that shitstate would just fuck entirely off already. 😒

Collete [1389080]

Paranoid wouldnt that be north korea that shoots people for listening to kpop

 

People in North Korea, including schoolchildren, are being publicly executed, sent to labour camps or subjected to brutal public humiliation for watching South Korean television shows or listening to K-pop, according to new testimonies gathered by Amnesty International.

 

North Korea: teenagers ‘executed for watching Squid Game’ as regime wages war on K-Drama and K-Pop | Amnesty International UK

SmuggledIn [3082399]

Oh No! A Dislike! The horrorrrrrr! 😱

 

Anyway. I wasn't talking about North Korea, so put the pipe down. I was talking about the nation state of constant surveillance, leaving my own country tf alone. Aren't they in our business and holding my country hostage enough? I don't want it, and neither does quite a bit of people here, tbh.  Israel needs to just take a hike, and get held responsible for their shit already. Including many of my own here, that have layed in bed with them this whole ass time and cheered them on like a bunch of cucks.

SmuggledIn [3082399]

My country. Are you hard at comprehending what you read?  Why does Canary Mission and people like dox-happy Laura Loomer allowed to exist to terrorize people who speak out? Why have their interests been allowed to saturate us with propaganda all these years, in order to gain unwavering support for that shitstate? And AIPAC's own founder, had been known to lie to evade FARA, before switching groups over to avoid having to register.

 

Anyone in America who voted for this merge, whether it ever goes through or not, should be tried for treason, how I see it. Need to do away with lobbying groups, and kick every bought out politician to the curb. Tell them to get a real job for a change, than taking money to sell the public talking points for a genocidal nation State.

Collete [1389080]

Its a public forum and when you lie , we are allowed to point it out they can do that even in Israel yet not in North Korea.

Rewindz [2855264]

We all know how pro-Palestine protesters are quick on intelligence--they boycott Starbucks, which hasn't operated a store in Israel since 2003.

 

Pro-Palis just found out the Waze app originated in Israel!  *GASP*

Even smart phones and iPhone have parts that manufactured in, dare I say it? ISRAELI!!!!

 

THROW OUT YOU PHONES OUT NOW! YOU'RE COMPROMISED! Come to think of it.....your laptops, iPad, smart tvs, remote controls, game consoles......your cars......

SmuggledIn [3082399]

Talking about me calling Israel as being the most paranoid nation State on the face of this planet, as being a lie?

 

As if they don't conduct massive surveillance, from Palestinians, to Lebanon, to even here in the good ol, USofA. Should look up digital occupation as well, some time. Surely that's normal.

/s

 

Collete [1389080]

Do  they kill people for watching the squid games like north korea ?

 

 

Do they have social credit scores like china  ?

 

 

seriously grow up

SmuggledIn [3082399]

Are you having an aneurysm? Not everything is possible to boycott, thanks to monopolies. The best one can do, is divert as much away as they can.

 

Want to bring up Starbucks? It isn't the only reason people boycott Sarbucks, but ok. Here is what we have:

 

"The largest institutional shareholders (of Starbucks) are: The Vanguard Group, Capital Group, and BlackRock.

The Vanguard Group has financial ties to Israel.

Capital Group holds substantial ties to Israel primarily through investments, as institutional reports and UN mappings identify the firm as a major shareholder in several multinational defense contractors and tech companies that operate in or supply the country.

BlackRock has significant financial and corporate ties to Israel, operating an office in the country since 2016 and actively managing investments there."

 

I don't use boycott apps. I buy from small business, preferably employee owned and operated. Local when I can. My devices have probably been my biggest exception. But I don't go out buying the latest model every time one comes out. Want to know the last two reasons I bought a phone?

The last one, my screen was entirely shattered.

The phone before that, was one I had for years, running only on 4g. I was forced to upgrade to 5g.

 

Want to stay on topic now? The US does NOT need to merge with Israel. I get our countries are already married, but that is insanely stupid. And I want to see it's divorce already.

Collete [1389080]

Yes Hamas have alot to blame for using their children as martyrs its rather pathetic when you watch the videos of Gaza before the war crimes they committed on October 7th .

 

 

SmuggledIn [3082399]

Easy now. Say their name three times, and they just might appear underneath your bed in the middle of the night.

 

Israel can (should) take responsibility for their horrific actions like good boys and girls. mmkay?

ElHeffe [2564022]

Ah, I think you'd working this backwards.

 

The IDF shoot children in the head and groin.

Then say they were soldiers.

Mr-Chuckles [2868555]

You cant accuse a whole population as martyrs. Bombing hospitals full of ill people, bombing schools, kids starving to death because they cant get food.. that isnt martyrs, thats the impact of willful ethnic cleansing.

 

Martyrs are when kids run up to soldiers and give them bombs then blow up with them. 

 

Do you just exist to wind up people at this point? At least be funny