🇺🇸🇮🇱 US senators urge Congress to block expanded defense and intelligence cooperation with Israel In a letter to congressional leaders, twelve senators urged them to remove three provisions from the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, warning that the legislation would allow Israel to significantly constrain US decision-making and undermine national security. 🔊 “These provisions would constrain the Administration’s ability to independently determine how best to protect US national security and would lock in long-term commitments despite our serious concerns with the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, the West Bank, and other parts of the region,” the letter read. The Democratic senators are targeting Section 1217 of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the defense authorization bill and Section 219 of the House-passed legislation, which would expand: 🔴 Technology sharing; 🔴 Joint weapons production; 🔴 Bilateral research and development in advanced military and technological fields. 🗣 “If enacted, these agreements would create long-term dependencies by embedding Israeli technology into the US defense industrial base that could make future policy changes costly or difficult to implement,” the senators emphasized. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime