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The U.S. and Israel are negotiating a proposed 20-year security aid pact to replace a current 10-year memorandum of understanding that expires in 2028. Israel hopes the new agreement will provide at least as much as, or more than, the previous $4 billion per year. Negotiations paused amid Israel’s genocide campaign in Gaza and restarted with an aim for closure within a year, while the White House remains quiet.
Israeli officials and Israel lobby groups such as APAC present the effort as innovative “outside the box” thinking, but the transcript frames it as a subsidy for Israel’s defense sector funded by U.S. taxpayers, enriching Israeli firms while offering scant returns to America.
The transcript describes Israel’s economy as under strain, citing a “zombie economy” conclusion by Israeli economists including Dr. Sherever. It attributes strain to foreign investment and loans, and lists vulnerabilities including BDS impact reducing foreign investment, a tech sector collapse with a stated 90% drop in tech investments, tourism “virtually stopped,” port damage and bankruptcy (Elot Port declared bankruptcy in 2024), and weapons dependency. It states Israel buys weapons from the U.S. using U.S. taxpayer money but depends on European supply chains facing sanctions. It also cites Israel’s economic contraction in Q2 2025 after a stated 12-day war with Iran in June: GDP shrinkage of 3.5% annually and 0.9% quarterly, with major components falling, including a 12.3% drop in investment and a 4.1% decline in private consumption; exports down 12% and imports down 3.5%. The Bank of Israel is said to have lowered its 2025 growth forecast to 3.3%. In 2024, the transcript claims Israel ran the largest budget deficit as genocide in Gaza and a shrinking economy widened the gap between spending and revenue collection.
It then focuses on the “U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act” (S.554 and H.R.1229), sponsored in the Senate by Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Gary Peters (D-Michigan), and in the House by Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Donald Norcross (D-NJ). The transcript describes the act as shifting from straightforward military handouts to cooperative research, development, testing and evaluation in fields including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum computing, robotics, and automation. It claims the U.S. is giving Israel access to U.S. technological supremacy while Israel repackages U.S. technology as “Israel innovation” under U.S. taxpayer funding.
The transcript describes proposed creation of a defense innovation unit office inside Israel, funded at $50 million yearly, as well as Israel’s admission into the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB), described as granting strategic benefits such as streamlined access to cutting-edge U.S. military technology and dual-use items and eased international traffic and arms/export regulations (ITAR and EAR). It cites U.S. intelligence officials indicating high levels of Israeli political, military, and economic espionage in the U.S. for decades and says the U.S. has not fully trusted Israel for highly integrated initiatives like NTIB. It also claims NDA provisions in 2024 established a working group and that the 2026 NDA provides additional authorization and funding for the working group, building Israel’s military capability under the guise of U.S. stockpiles. The transcript further claims the agreement expands and extends placement of U.S. military stockpiles in Israel.
A related “Bunker Buster Act” is described as requiring the U.S. to build bunker-buster capability in Israel for Israeli use with U.S. taxpayer money, stating the bunker-buster technology belongs to the U.S. until Israel wants to use it. It lists proposed annual amounts for RDT&E for unmanned systems countermeasures ($150 million), anti-tunnel technology ($80 million), and drone defense ($75 million).
The transcript claims these measures build on prior “grifts,” citing Israel’s Iron Beam. It alleges U.S. Army provision of tactical high energy laser capabilities in 1996, with Israel having little to provide at the time, followed by a program cancellation in 2006 and later phases leading to Iron Beam. It states Congress and the Biden administration gave Israel $1.2 billion to procure Iron Beam from Rafael and Elbit, and claims U.S. taxpayers also funded Israeli companies’ development through $500 million annual cooperative R&D appropriations, with the original technology coming from the U.S. It argues the outcome leaves the U.S. taxpayer as the primary loser through diversion of public funds and subsequent transfer of proprietary U.S. technology to Israeli firms that can profit and potentially market to strategic competitors such as China.
Finally, it describes a “propaganda campaign” and political influence apparatus led by APAC and “27 other Israel lobby groups,” combining media efforts (including the Salem Media Group and “The Aaron Mullen Show,” featuring an interview where Benjamin Netanyahu tries to sell the agreement) and a stated Hizbollah propaganda budget of $726 million for targeting the West in 2026. It claims that when combined with $150 million for 2025 plus an October supplemental of $40 million, the total approaches $1 billion, excluding additional funds funneled into political campaigns to influence Congress toward the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act.