Benjamin Netanyahu Keen In Changing Status Quo From Aid Recipient To Partner.

Tel Aviv/Washington DC; July 2026: On 01st June this year (2026) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had written to the US Republican Representative Marlin Stutzman of California, stating that “the time has now arrived for Israel to move from aid recipient to partner” with the United States. In his 01st June letter the Israeli Prime Minister had written:

“Dear Congressman Stutzman, I was glad to receive your proposed Congressional resolution endorsing my plan to shift the framework for US-Israel defence cooperation from aid to partnership.

As I said in our meeting in Jerusalem on May 27, 2026, Israel deeply appreciates the financial component of the military aid the United States has generously provided us over the years. The time has now arrived for us to move from aid recipient to partner.

I am heartened by your enthusiastic support for our plan to develop a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States government that will draw down US financial military assistance over the nextext decade and replace it with what you refer to as a “new framework of joint defence cooperation, codevelopment, coproduction and mutual investment in areas including advanced missile defence, artificial intelligence unmanned systems, cybersecurity and next generation military platforms”.

I also appreciate your commitment to fighting the scourge of antisemitism in the United States and around the world”.

What Netanyahu proclaims is at the core of the proposed “United States-Israel Defence Technology Cooperation Initiative”, which has been included in a section of the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) that seeks to push the Pentagon budget to $1.5 trillion in 2027. This proposal to the annual military policy bill aims to essentially merge the Israeli and the US militaries.

While the initial bill, the ‘United States-Israel FUTURES Act’, failed as a standalone bill, the core provisions have been included in the NDAA. This aims to “expand and accelerate bilateral defence technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation between the US and Israel, led by an ‘executive agent’ decided by the US Defence Secretary”.

This merger would integrate the United States and Israeli occupation militarily, including ‘data fusion’, ‘network integration’, research and development, weapons and bio-manufacturing, and collaboration with AI, cyber, and quantum machine learning technologies. While the Israeli occupation forces and US military are already deeply connected and share many of their genocidal tactics, this represents a significant entanglement of the two most belligerent and murderous militaries in the world.

If passed, this would be the most integrated the United States is with any country on earth. It is perhaps unsurprising for Israel to be that partner, given it is a proxy for the United States used to entrench its hegemony in the region and provide a base for attacks, particularly against Iran. The Israeli occupation is totally reliant on the United States. The US has given Israel at least $300 billion in military money since 1948. It uses US-made weapons, relies on training and intelligence from the US, and is armed by many US citizens. So just like when the Trump administration re-named the ‘Department of Defence’ to the ‘Department of War’, this is yet another overt action that reveals the reality that has always been there.

In 2008, the US passed a law requiring it to protect Israel’s ‘military edge’ against other countries in the region. The US is required to give Israel at least $3.8 billion a year in military funding until 2028. Israel has always been a major priority of the United States, and this only makes that clearer. Meanwhile, this new integration differs from the way the US engages with its other allies. While NATO countries and partners share a degree of military integration with global weapons supply chains, intelligence sharing, military bases, and more, this removes the limitations in existence for military cooperation.

Already, the US war drive through NATO has impacts across society beyond what might be recognised as purely military-related, given the military-industrial complex and integration of the US military in all aspects of life. In this case, the merger will deepen ruptures across the political, social, and economic system as the United States moves closer to its proxy. The main beneficiaries of this will be the weapons companies that profited immensely from and have made Israel’s genocide in Gaza possible, as they enter into new seamless contracts.

Israel is increasingly viewed across the world, and within the United States, as a pariah state. In the US, 60% of adults have an unfavourable view of Israel. This push to further integrate with Israel puts the US on the line in an attempt to ensure the continuation and longevity of the settler colonial project. By entrenching the US military with Israel’s own, it provides a layer of protection that goes even further than the impunity that has given Israel full rein to commit a holocaust in Gaza and further colonization of the occupied West Bank. This integration will mean that Israel is given unfettered support to carry out its genocidal trajectory for the total colonization of Palestine, inhibiting any future presidents from changing this relationship, if that were to ever occur.

This is the US empire defending itself, as the Zionist state becomes isolated, by trying to make its proxy appear more robust and independent, while maintaining its unbreakable connection to the core. This is a clear response to the massive movements that have erupted across the world for nearly three years in opposing Israel’s genocide and the role of countries in facilitating it. The US is, in a way, absorbing Israel to provide the legitimacy being chipped away at internationally and domestically, ending the narrative opposition to unlimited foreign aid to Israel, which has garnered bipartisan support.

Israel is occupying at least 60% of Gaza. Palestinians are being pushed into a shrinking concentration camp, where they are bombed every single day and refused aid during what is described as a ceasefire. For US taxpayers, this merger would put even more of our money into funding this horrific genocide.

This NDAA is dangerous. Through the US-Israeli integration, it would facilitate more deadly technology, more weapons for genocide, and make it nearly impossible to sever support for Israel by the US. Through the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget, it would funnel money out of welfare into more war and violence across the world. For the sake of humanity, we have to dismantle this apparatus of death that is the US empire, which is in a perpetual, ever-growing state of war to maintain its system of exploitation and plunder.

Team Maverick.