By Esteban
UNITED STATES — For the masses of the U.S., bearing witness to the horrific escalation in crimes committed by the “Israeli” Occupation Forces against the steadfast people of Palestine beginning in 2023 was a paradigm-shifting experience. Between the on-the-ground reporting by heroic Palestinian journalists, the total failure of the United Nations to observe international law and meaningfully intervene to stop the genocide, and the utter intransigence of the Biden regime and the Democratic establishment in their dogged political, diplomatic and material support for the Zionist entity in the face of massive, justified outrage, millions of people in the U.S. have seen the U.S.-“Israel” relationship more clearly. More recently, the costly war launched by the Trump regime against Iran solely in pursuit of “Israeli” interests has pushed the popularity of continued financial and military support for “Israel” among the U.S. masses to historic lows. As the Obama-era agreement to provide the Zionist colony with $3.8 billion a year is set to end in 2028, the future of the U.S.-“Israel” relationship falls further and further into question.
According to findings of the Pew Research Center in a poll from March 2026, “Six-in-ten Americans have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of Israel,[…] The share of U.S. adults with a very unfavorable view of Israel (28%) […] nearly tripled from 10% in 2022. […] Eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents currently have an unfavorable view of Israel. […] Today, 57% of Republicans ages 18 to 49 have an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up from 50% last year”.
This massive erosion in popular support for “Israel” may ultimately redound in Congress, insulated as it may be from the will of the masses, where the National Defense Authorization Act is passed each year to set U.S. military policy and spending priorities, including military aid to “Israel.” Bourgeois senators, representatives and political pundits are finding new political capital in anti-“Israeli” talking points, and opposition to the allocation of billions of dollars each year to the “Israeli” military is a novel and growing phenomenon within the legislature and mainstream political commentary. This, of course, is hollow bourgeois opportunism, but it reflects a wider sentiment among the working masses as the crimes of Zionism and U.S. Imperialism reek to high heaven. These crimes are paid for by taxes taken out of every hard-earned check and added to every purchase. The working masses are turning away in disgust from cooperation with the pariah Zionist entity.
Though the annual passage of the NDAA is treated as a foregone, undemocratic formality, the possibility that Congress could one day use its power over federal spending to cut off “Israel” remains a terrifying prospect for the Zionist ruling class in the U.S. and the colony alike. For them, the clearest answer to the growing opposition to the genocidal colony is to remove congressional oversight from the process altogether.
A new section introduced to next year’s NDAA does just this. Section 224, titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”, would require the Defense Secretary to appoint an official responsible for coordinating defense technology cooperation between “Israel” and the U.S. and to promote joint U.S.-Israeli defense industry ventures. According to Josh Paul, a former State Department official, “What Congress is trying to do now is find different ways of entrenching the relationship so deep in America’s own defense industrial base that it’s impossible to root it out”.
Section 224 would shift U.S. support for “Israel” from an annual aid package, where it can be cut, conditioned and debated, to the labyrinthine and obscure Pentagon-run system of procurement contracts, private partnerships and classified development programs. Instead of approving the funds beforehand, Congress would simply receive an annual report from the executive agent appointed by the new section, without any oversight into the day-to-day operations of this official or any provision to undo its decisions. The Pentagon would be allowed to dole out contracts directly to “Israeli” arms manufacturers, many of which are directly owned by the “Israeli” government. If this section passes through Congress, which is likely given its bipartisan co-sponsors, annual aid to “Israel” may well exceed $3.8 billion through entirely opaque channels consolidated within the unaccountable Pentagon bureaucracy. Section 224 would also expand network integration and data fusion efforts between the U.S. and “Israeli” military establishments. This may represent the expansion of surveillance technology tested in Palestine for domestic use against anti-ICE organizers and others deemed enemies of the state.
Fundamentally, this merger between the military-industrial complexes is nothing more than a reflection of the fundamental truth that the United States and the Zionist colony compose one and the same force: imperialism, which now seeks to transcend and shed formal national divisions within its decaying apparatus in order to perpetuate itself. It also represents yet another measure for the U.S. to more closely combat the brave Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance. While the peoples of West Asia rise up in heroic resistance against U.S.-Zionist Imperialism, it falls to the indignant working masses in the belly of the beast to bring its murderous, newly merged military-industrial complex to a grinding halt.
