Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with this new legislation. It's a trap Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick

Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to bind the US to a state that has gone rogue

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Make no mistake, the intent and the consequences of this legislation, dubbed the United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, go far, far beyond the sharing of military technology that traditionally has attracted so much support among Senators and Congress members.

For the Israel-first theorists whose thinking and position papers guided its formulation, it is the proverbial camel’s nose. By making the United States increasingly dependent on Israeli technology – in AI, quantum computing, high-powered lasers, cyberwarfare, anti-drone systems, and other advanced fields – while also transferring America’s most sophisticated technologies to Israeli governments, Israel and its advocates are quietly steering the relationship away from patronage or even partnership and toward something more asymmetrical: a structure designed to harness American power for the aims of “Zionism 2.0”.

That was the vision advanced by David Wurmser, the main author of the Clean Break document – a 1996 policy paper submitted to Benjamin Netanyahu, which advocated ending the Oslo peace process, casting the US and Israel as engaged in a struggle to defend western civilization, empowering Israel to reshape the political landscape of the Middle East, and overthrowing regimes in the region, beginning with Iraq. Its signatories included Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. All three were highly placed within the George W Bush administration as architects of the American invasion of Iraq.

Wurmser introduced this new “Zionism 2.0” framework in a report published the same month the US-Israel Futures Act was introduced. Titled Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power, the report advocates an Israeli security strategy based on “preventative wars”. US authorization for these wars is to be achieved by forging such an intimate relationship between the Israeli and US militaries that Israel would become “indispensable” to the United States, both in the Middle East and in its global struggle to defend “western civilization” against Russia, China and an increasingly Islamized Europe.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/congress-us-israel-legislation