Coen Hyde

Maker and doer of things. I mainly talk about tech, space, clean energy and politics. 1st Amendment exerciser.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.

Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The House Armed Services Committee just voted to merge our military with Israel's. This is utterly insane!! @RoKhanna tried to stop it and nearly all the Democrats voted against him, too! Nearly our entire Congress is bought by the Israeli lobby. This is a core betrayal.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

They’re now literally infiltrating our government, military and intelligence operations. Israelis have stolen our secrets repeatedly, now politicians - who have almost all been bribed the Israeli lobby - are letting them steal our capabilities legally. This is betraying America!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW: Cenk Uygur drops a massive truth bomb! He confirms the Zionist lobby has completely hijacked Washington, bribing 94 percent of Congress and both Biden and Trump.

The American government is entirely controlled by a foreign entity. The corruption is absolute!

[Coen Hyde @coenhyde]

These pricks! They wanted a big demonstration that they decide when the war stops. Kill a bunch of doctors and patients while trashing the peace deal and global economy. The perfect plan to make the world hate them.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

BREAKING: Israel just carried out a massacre in Tyre, completely demolishing three buildings — where many remain trapped inside — and wrecking the Jabal Amel hospital.

Exact casualty figures unknown but thought to be very serious.

More footage below

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Thomas Massie and I are not done working together. Section 224 of our defense bill means to integrate our military with Israel's military.

As a senior member of the Armed Services committee, I am introducing an amendment to stop financing and enabling war crimes.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

They spy on you without a warrant, then hide behind a secret court. That's not how the Constitution works.

My Fourth Amendment Restoration and Protection Act stops warrantless surveillance of Americans.

[The Artist known as Jess @ElofsonJess]

We should have no sympathy for the devil and expel Israel in all its forms from US soil.
No foreign government should ever be allowed such power over us, I thought we learned this lesson in 1776, but evidently some people were absent that day in history class.
Long Live The Republic

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

No snark, I genuinely don’t get it. Trump is one of the least masculine, most juvenile public figures out there. He’s needy, whiny, defensive, terrified of strong women, and visibly intimidated by powerful men.

How does his base spin this into the ultimate “strongman” image?

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Israel completely destroyed Hussein’s restaurant and resort in southern Lebanon. One of the most beautiful places in the south is now ashes

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Congress just dishonored every American veteran.

I served in the U.S. Marine Corps. I dedicated years of my life to this country, our way of life, and our beliefs. I lost friends. I watched wives hold their babies and choke back tears at my friends' funerals.

For that sacrifice, our country recognizes service members. They can proudly say "I served" and carry the title of Veteran.

Now Congress wants to grant that same recognition to service in a foreign military, for the sole benefit of that foreign country, in an ongoing military action being investigated for war crimes against civilians.

That cheapens every veteran's sacrifice. It undermines the honor of military service. And it dishonors this country.

Repost this. Americans need to know. Veterans need to know. The families of service members and veterans need to know. And Congress needs to know we are not ok with this.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel is one of the biggest offenders of economic espionage against the US

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

This is a must-read piece on how Congress is planning to fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense industries, joining the U.S. even more tightly at the hip with Israel and in a manner hidden from public view.
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https://t.co/GFEOyWnZ5a

[Coen Hyde @coenhyde]

Everyone please take some time to read this. You must be aware of the treachery Congress is engaged in. DO NOT SCROLL.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🎯 Deep Dive: The Quiet Coup Inside the NDAA

The Responsible Statecraft piece has put its finger on something genuinely significant — and the fact that this is happening inside a must-pass $1.15 trillion defense bill, buried at Section 224, tells you everything about how the permanent national security apparatus operates when it wants to avoid a public fight.

🏗️ What Section 224 Actually Does

This isn’t a tweak. Section 224 — titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” — is a structural rewiring of the U.S.-Israel military relationship.

The provision authorizes $150 million annually from FY2027 through FY2029, but the money is almost beside the point. What matters is the architecture it builds:

- Bilateral R&D across AI, quantum computing, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, counter-drone systems, and missile defense

- Co-production and joint ventures with Israeli defense firms on U.S. soil

- Licensing agreements that embed Israeli-origin intellectual property into Pentagon programs of record

- “Network integration” and “data fusion” — which means U.S. military data flowing into Israeli systems and vice versa

- Pathways from R&D straight into procurement, bypassing the normal foreign aid oversight channels

The key phrase in the legislative text: technologies are to be identified for “integration into United States systems and programs of record.” That’s not foreign aid. That’s making Israeli defense tech a backbone of the U.S. military.

🔄 The Strategic Shift: From Aid to Embedded Infrastructure

The Quincy Institute’s Steven Simon has been tracking this for months. His brief, The Disappearing Aid Check, lays out exactly what’s happening — and it’s more sophisticated than most people realize.

The current model: Israel receives Foreign Military Financing (FMF) through the State Department, voted on annually by Congress. It's visible. It's politically accountable. People can argue about it.

The new model: Phase out FMF grants and replace them with Pentagon procurement accounts, industrial partnerships, and sustainment pipelines. Same money, different door — one with vastly less transparency.

The logic, as Simon documents, is being sold under an “America First” framing: this isn’t a handout to Israel, it’s an investment in American military readiness, industrial capacity, and jobs. Israeli co-production facilities in Mississippi and Arkansas become political leverage — members of Congress protect the jobs in their districts, and the relationship becomes structurally impossible to unwind.

This is the same playbook the military-industrial complex always uses: distribute the subcontracts across as many congressional districts as possible so no one dares vote against the program. Now they’re doing it with a foreign country’s defense sector.

🕳️ The Transparency Problem

The shift from State Department-administered FMF to Pentagon procurement is the move that should alarm anyone who cares about accountability.

Under the FMF model:

- Congress votes on the aid package publicly
- The State Department provides human rights certifications
- There’s diplomatic oversight and policy conditionality
- Public debate is possible

Under the Pentagon procurement model:

- Funding moves through budget justification documents and program element descriptions
- Oversight is limited to “cost, readiness, and capability” — bureaucratic criteria
- The relationship gets evaluated like any other weapons program, not as a strategic political commitment
- No diplomatic strings attached

As the Responsible Statecraft piece notes, this would give Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world” — including NATO allies. Not even the Five Eyes partners have this kind of embedded access to U.S. defense procurement.

🧬 The Legislative Genealogy

This didn’t come out of nowhere. H.R. 7540 (Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-TX) and S. 3855 (Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC) were introduced as standalone bills in February 2026 with nearly identical language. When a standalone passage looked difficult, the provisions got folded into the NDAA — the classic maneuver for legislation that can’t survive public scrutiny on its own.

The JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security of America) influence is unmistakable. Their “Partners in Production” report explicitly recommended deeper industrial integration and the addition of Israel to the U.S. National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). The FY2026 NDAA had already directed DoD to establish a working group to assess exactly that. Section 224 is the next logical step — and JINSA’s fingerprints are all over it.

⚠️ Why This Matters More Than the Dollar Figure

$150 million a year is a rounding error in a $1.15 trillion defense bill. But the institutional architecture this creates is permanent.

Once Israeli firms are embedded in U.S. supply chains, once Israeli-origin IP is inside Pentagon programs of record, once U.S. and Israeli military data networks are fused — disentanglement becomes economically and institutionally impossible. You can’t just stop the aid check. You’d have to rip apart procurement programs, break contracts, and rebuild supply chains.

That’s the point. This is designed to make the relationship irreversible — at precisely the moment when a growing number of Americans are questioning unconditional support for Israel’s actions in the region.

The traditional Israel lobby works through campaign contributions and media influence. This is more sophisticated: it works through the defense procurement bureaucracy itself, creating material interests that guarantee political support regardless of public opinion.

🗳️ What Happens Next

The House Armed Services Committee markup is scheduled for June 4, 2026. After that, the bill moves to the full House, then reconciliation with the Senate version.

Section 224 is currently in the base text — meaning it was put there by committee leadership before amendments or broader debate. That’s how the most consequential provisions get through: bury them in the chairman’s mark, count on the must-pass nature of the NDAA, and dare anyone to hold up the entire defense budget over one section.

Members who want to stop this have a narrow window: force a floor amendment to strike Section 224, or demand recorded votes that put colleagues on the record supporting the fusion of U.S. and Israeli militaries. The question is whether anyone has the stomach for that fight when the pro-Israel apparatus in both parties remains largely unchallenged.

The Responsible Statecraft piece is right to flag this. The quiet ones are always the ones that matter most.

[Coen Hyde @coenhyde]

Joe Kent is a real patriot. We need more Joe’s

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

JOE KENT EXPOSES IT ALL: “I Saw the Israeli Lobby Dictate Terms Inside Trump’s White House”

“I watched a foreign government, the Israelis, march right in and basically dictate terms to us… manipulate American intelligence, manipulate the media, manipulate those around President Trump to put us into this war.”

He left his high-level post at the National Counterterrorism Center because he refused to watch more American body bags come home for Israel’s agenda.

“I promised myself I would speak out if I could prevent needless wars. I had to leave.”

Joe Kent confirms what many suspected: the influence is real, it’s deep, and it dragged America into another disaster.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 Best live reaction to the New Glenn explosion:

"Hey, we out here fishing and shit, and we just witnessed a fucking explosion."

"Bro, WTF"

https://t.co/9CD0eJCy8O

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Netanyahu just said, “At this point, we are fully in control of 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip… and my directive is to get to… 70%." So, they are definitely stealing the land of Gaza and their leader just said it on tape. Watch - no one in US media will report it.

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Good summary of the James Talarico and Ken Paxton senate race:

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Israel's Destruction of Lebanon Mirrors Gaza

Once again, courtesy of American taxpayers.