SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "The time has now arrived for us to move from aid recipient to partner."

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2062271277843300769

Mario Nawfal

 A letter from Netanyahu to Congressman Stutzman reveals his plan to restructure the entire U.S.-Israel military relationship, in his own words: "my plan."

"The time has now arrived for us to move from aid recipient to partner."

The framework: draw down U.S. financial military assistance over the next decade and replace it with "joint defense cooperation, codevelopment, coproduction and mutual investment in advanced missile defense, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, cybersecurity and next generation military platforms."

On the surface, this sounds like Israel weaning itself off American money. 

But read it again. Aid is a line item Congress can cut with a vote.

What replaces it is structural integration: shared weapons development, joint production lines, intertwined AI and cyber programs, mutual investment in each other's defense industries. 

You can end aid with a pen. 

You cannot easily separate two defense industrial bases that build their next-generation platforms together.

After a war where a lot Americans said the U.S. fought for Israel's interests, the political vulnerability was always the aid line.

Netanyahu's answer is to delete the line item and replace it with something deeper that never shows up as a check Congress has to approve.

The relationship that critics spent this war trying to loosen is being rewired into something far harder to unwind.

Source: @ShadowofEzra

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 Rubio got heckled mid-hearing by a protester accusing him of "serving Israel."

Rubio paused, waited for security to remove the protester, then simply asked:

"Can I continue now?"

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