Tara Reade: Israel is bleeding the American dream dry

A new Pentagon-IDF tie-up deepens military integration while ordinary US citizens get more war, more debt, and less to hope for at home In the early 2000s, I worked with domestic violence victims in Seattle, Washington.One of my trainers was a scrappy woman who told me she was a former member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Looking back, I remember wondering why several former Mossad and IDF personnel were involved in training Seattle police officers. At the time, I didn’t think much of it. After all, they were working to help protect victims of domestic violence.Fast forward to 2026.Buried inside the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2027 is Section 219, a provision that creates what is officially called the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. In practical terms, it directs the Pentagon to deepen the integration of US and Israeli military research, defense technology development, weapons manufacturing, and military-industrial supply chains under a single coordinating framework. Critics argue that this represents an unprecedented level of institutional integration between the United States and a foreign military partne...