While attention focuses on the FY27 NDAA, the Senate is quietly doing something similar via the FY27 Intel Authorization bill. Buckle up — it’s a big deal.
These are the origins of Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act which if passed by Congress will bind the US to Israel – and the Israel-first theorists whose thinking and position papers guided its formulation.
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Rep. Khanna took the ‘America First’ approach against Section 224, but he was out-numbered by those who played down its dangers and implications
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“Over the past two and a half years, Gaza has served to a large extent as a testing laboratory not only for methods of warfare, but also for the architecture of starvation and the management of a population through deprivation,” the report states.
Section 224 is cleverly buried deep in the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It transforms Israel from a top U.S. aid recipient to a full member of the U.S. defense and intelligence apparatus, creating access and control mechanisms for a nation with goals drastically different from America’s.
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Israeli soldiers went door to door in the border village of Ain Arab, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint as part of a systematic campaign to empty large swathes of southern Lebanon.