Rights Groups Urge US Not to Deepen Defense Ties with Israel

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... The provision would deepen cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors by accelerating joint military technology development and other partnerships. The bill passed the House of Representatives in July and awaits Senate action.

The provision of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, known as Section 219, seeks to set up frameworks for joint ventures, licensing agreements and U.S.-based co-production partnerships with the Israeli industry.

In Thursday's letter addressed to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, 56 groups said deeper integration with Israel's defense sector would be "exceptionally dangerous" and urged lawmakers to remove the provision.

The groups include Amnesty International USA and the civil rights network National Lawyers Guild as well as Arab and Jewish advocacy groups.

"At a time in which American interests are increasingly diverging from those of Israel, and American public opinion is turning increasingly against unconditional support to Israel, creating new points of influence for Israel in the U.S. defense-technology ecosystem is exceptionally dangerous," said the letter, which has not been previously reported. ...

@#2

Do try harder to be relevant.

@#3,4

So, are your current trolling alias in favor of, or against, what those groups have been saying?

I know it is much easier to just attack my comment, but what have ye to say upon the topic at hand?

Yer up ...

@#6 ... ARE WE CLEAR? ...

Yup, I completely understand the talking points that may have been issued to you.

Thx for the reply.

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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Verse 1]
What kind of song would you give
If you had a song to give?
What kind of life would you live
If you had a life to live?
Would you wanna make something good
That you could look on?
Give you lots of pleasure, yeah you would

[Verse 2]
What about this thing that you gave?
What if it weren't quite perfect?
(What about if it was something bad about it?)
Would you love it just the same?
Would you still care about it?

[Chorus]
The lights on the city
Look so good
Almost like somebody
Thought they would
Thought they would
...

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@#9 ... I'm Snoozin'. ...

Perhaps that is A Good Thing if your current alias truly follows up on it.

But, my guess would be, it is just another lie.

Time will tell.

But what is curious to me at this point ...

Why does there seem to be a deflection attempt away from the topic of the thread?

@#12

Oh, so, your current trolling alias is not snoozing, as it said it was.

Good to know one cannot believe what it posts.

@#14 ... I can't believe what you post Either. ...

That's your problem not mine.

... embrace American Militarism as Legitimate and Colonialism as the Norm ...

Oh, there's those Pres Putin talking points starting to surface again.

Do try harder.

@#18

18 U.S. Code 1702 - Obstruction of correspondence
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... Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. ...

18 U.S. Code 1708 - Theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally
www.law.cornell.edu

... Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains, or attempts so to obtain, from or out of any mail, post office, or station thereof, letter box, mail receptacle, or any mail route or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or abstracts or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or secretes, embezzles, or destroys any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein; or

Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter; or

Whoever buys, receives, or conceals, or unlawfully has in his possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing the same to have been stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted --

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. ...