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Inside the Pentagon Plan to Stitch Israel Into American Defense

Section 219 carries the formal name the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” It threads a single foreign country straight into the apparatus that commandeers over a trillion dollars of American firepower. Americans have grown weary of bankrolling other nations’ wars while their own towns go without, and the honest answer is not a slyly buried merger engineered to outlast every vote. The answer is a clean break.

Israel’s ‘kill first’ strategy is now aimed at Turkey. Will the region respond?

Hard power is needed to halt Israel’s reckless quest to redraw the borders of the Middle East in pursuit of “Greater Israel”. The power Israel lost to dictate the terms of peace on Iran, it has sought to regain in Lebanon. And Israel is now also focussing on Turkey (this has not gone down well with Trump).

Israel Is Bleeding Support in the U.S. – and Pouring Tens of Millions Into Trying to Change That

Polls show a deterioration of Israel’s standing, even among segments of the American population traditionally considered pro-Israel. The campaigns financed by the Israeli government, aimed at influencing Christian conservatives, are now attempting to justify the deeply unpopular Iran war.