A push in Congress to fuse Israel's defense industry with the US military is bad news for American control over its own weapons and sensitive tech.

• A defense bill section orders the Pentagon to build Israeli technology into US weapons, including AI, quantum, and biotech.
• The goal is to lock in US-Israel military ties so deep they can't be undone, even as public and congressional support for funding Israel fades.
• This flips leverage: instead of the US being able to cut aid, Israel could withhold tech that American weapons depend on.
• Israel's specialty is cyber spying — the same world that produced Pegasus spyware, which was sanctioned by the US for targeting officials and civilians.
• A separate effort uses US heritage commissions and fake "archaeology" projects to back evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Outlook: The measure faces committee votes this week, with Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie trying to strip it out, but its place in a must-pass bill makes it hard to block.