Together, we are going to put lawmakers on notice.
Congress is back in session, Pamela, which means it’s time to double down on our campaign to stop a dangerous, unprecedented Pentagon-Israel Defense Forces (IDF) partnership from passing into law. Here’s where things stand:
The “U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” was buried within this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — a spending bill that usually passes without fuss.
But this year, together with activists and movement partners, we’ve sounded the alarm over this dangerous effort to deepen coordination between two deadly war machines. It’s helped push the House to barely pass its version of the NDAA over historic opposition. Meanwhile, a majority in the Senate has stopped its version in its tracks.
The next critical juncture will likely be during conference, when lawmakers from both chambers reconcile the differences in their versions of the NDAA. Then, the final package will get full votes on the House and Senate floor. It means our last opportunity to defeat this provision for good is coming up fast.
We have a crucial — but narrow — runway of time for us to work in lockstep with champions who oppose this effort and get other lawmakers to join them. Demand your members of Congress vote NO on the NDAA and reject a dangerous Pentagon-IDF partnership.
Deepening ties with the IDF while degrading transparency will result in impunity.
Less accountability is exactly what the weapons contractors, powerful special interest groups, and Israeli PM Netanyahu himself are pushing for — and that’s what they’ll get if Congress passes this plan to inextricably link the U.S. and Israeli military-industrial complexes through the NDAA.
Let’s be clear: More Americans than ever before believe the U.S. is too supportive of the Israeli government — one that is still committing genocide in Gaza, has dropped thousands of bombs on Lebanon, and is accelerating illegal land grabs in the West Bank.
Together, we’ll make sure that lawmakers can’t ignore that majority.
Up until the final votes are cast on this year’s NDAA, we are going to keep putting lawmakers on notice, Pamela. We aren’t slowing down one second in our work to keep building on the progress we’ve already made and amass the opposition we need to stop a deeper U.S.-Israeli military partnership from becoming a reality.
We need to make sure every lawmaker, even those who are with us, understands how many of their constituents reject this disastrous plan.
Urge your lawmakers to stop a U.S.-Israeli military partnership by rejecting the NDAA!
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
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