Section 219: More Than a Defense Provision – The Battle Over the Future of US-Israel Relations

Section 219: More Than a Defense Provision – The Battle Over the Future of US-Israel Relations

Somewhere in the thousand-plus pages of America’s annual National Defense Authorization Act sits a provision that started out as Section 224 and later became Section 219 in the House version. On paper it looks straightforward: expand technological and defense cooperation between the United States and Israel. In practice it has…

The Merger That Never Was: How a Defense Bill Became an Israel Conspiracy Overnight

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leads the U.S. House of Representatives in passing the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” gun safety legislation in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg On July 22, the US House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year...