拜登总统对以色列在加沙种族灭绝的不懈支持，为特朗普总统2024年连任铺平了道路，而特朗普本人发动以色列支持的对伊朗战争的愚蠢决定，在很大程度上促使民主党重新掌控国会两院——副总统JD·万斯毫不含糊地诊断出了这一事实。
After President Biden’s unrelenting support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza helped pave the way for President Trump’s reelection in 2024, Trump’s own foolish decision to launch an Israel-backed war against Iran played a large role in putting Democrats back in control of both chambers of Congress — a fact Vice President JD Vance diagnosed in no uncertain terms.
现在，民主党和共和党都有机会证明，他们终于吸取了选民过去三年一直试图向两党传达的教训：美国人民不希望卷入以色列的侵略和暴行，也不愿成为其共犯。他们回应这一呼吁的第一个机会即将到来，时间比人们预想的要早。
Now Democrats and Republicans alike have the opportunity to demonstrate they’ve finally learned the lesson voters have tried to deliver to both parties over the last three years: The American people do not want to be entangled and complicit in Israel’s aggression and atrocities. Their first opportunity to heed that call is arriving sooner than one might expect.
目前，众议院军事委员会和参议院军事委员会正在进行一场非正式但影响深远的磋商，以敲定《国防授权法案》（NDAA）的最终文本，该法案为五角大楼制定政策。众议院和参议院委员会通过的现行版本中包含一项令人不安的条款，将以色列武器公司以史无前例的程度纳入五角大楼采购流程——这为向以色列武器制造商输送数十亿美元纳税人资金敞开了后门，几乎无法追踪，且无需国会监督。
Right now, the House Armed Services Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee are engaged in an informal but highly consequential conference to finalize the text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets policy for the Pentagon. A disturbing provision in current versions of the texts passed by the House and Senate committees would integrate Israeli weapons companies into the Pentagon procurement process at an unprecedented level — opening a back door to almost untraceably send billions of taxpayer dollars to Israeli weapons makers without congressional oversight.
众议院法案将在五角大楼内设立一个新的“行政代理人”职位，以推动这种整合——这种融合程度超过了与北约国家的合作。
The House bill would create a new “executive agent” position within the Pentagon to steer this integration—a level of amalgamation that exceeds collaboration with nations in NATO.
国会两党议员都在反对这一条款。周二，参议员克里斯·范·霍伦和另外九名民主党参议员，以及独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯，要求将其删除。在众议院，民主党人罗·坊纳和共和党人托马斯·马西已明确表示，他们也将试图从NDAA中删除这一措施。这样做，他们代表了绝大多数美国人的意愿——他们的同事应该注意。
Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are opposing this provision. On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and nine other Democratic senators, plus independent Bernie Sanders, demanded it be removed. In the House, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie have made clear they will also try to strip the NDAA of this measure. In doing so, they are representing what the vast majority of Americans want—and their colleagues should take note.
在我们与Data for Progress于8月进行的民调中，75%的民主党选民反对这一条款，58%的无党派选民和42%的共和党选民也反对。此外，民调显示，目前多数美国人希望减少或终止对以色列的纳税人资助。如果在包含这一措施的情况下通过《国防授权法》，即使国会将国务院预算中每年33亿美元的对以色列武器资助削减为零——今年早些时候，103名民主党众议员与Massie一起推动了这一举措——仍可能有大量资金流向以色列公司，而美国民众对此一无所知。
In our August polling with Data for Progress, 75 percent of Democratic voters oppose this provision, as do 58 percent of independents and 42 percent of Republicans. In addition, polling shows a majority of Americans now want to see taxpayer funding to Israel reduced or ended. Passing the NDAA with this measure would mean that even if Congress zeroed out annual weapons funding to Israel, currently at $3.3 billion per year, in the State Department budget — earlier this year, 103 Democratic representatives joined Massie in a move to do just that — there could still be a major increase in actual dollars flowing to Israeli companies that the American people never hear about.
负面影响不仅限于用纳税人的钱资助以色列武器制造商（其中一些是国有企业）。这种整合可能允许在巴勒斯坦人身上测试过的以色列武器和监控技术，在美国被用于推进特朗普政府残酷的大规模驱逐计划。以色列武器制造商艾比特系统公司的美国子公司预计将在美国-墨西哥边境安装300多座监控塔，该技术源于其在约旦河西岸以色列隔离墙部分路段部署的技术。
The negative repercussions extend beyond funding Israeli weapons makers (some of which are government-owned) with our tax dollars. This sort of integration could allow for Israeli weapons and surveillance technology that have been tested on Palestinians to be used in the U.S. to advance the Trump administration’s cruel mass deportation program. Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems’s U.S. subsidiary is expected to install more than 300 surveillance towers along the U.S.-Mexico border, developed from its technology deployed along portions of Israel’s apartheid wall in the West Bank.
将以色列纳入美国政府采购流程，也应在美国国家安全界引起警钟。《华盛顿邮报》今年早些时候报道，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡三年前否决了拜登向乌克兰提供美以合作生产的导弹系统的决定，尽管这些导弹由美国纳税人出资，当时乌克兰正在与俄罗斯作战。《国防授权法》中提议的整合措施将大幅扩大以色列政府可以单方面否决的武器范围。
Melding Israel into our government procurement process should also set off alarm bells in the U.S. national security world. The Washington Post reported earlier this year that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vetoed Biden’s decision to send U.S.-Israeli co-produced missile systems to Ukraine three years ago for Ukraine’s war against Russia, even though the missiles were paid for by American taxpayers. The integration measure proposed in the NDAA would massively expand the scope of weapons over which the Israeli government could exercise a unilateral veto.
国会应当削减与以色列的情报合作，而非仅从道德角度考虑——即美国国家安全机构的任何部分都不应协助种族灭绝——还因为五角大楼官员今年早些时候将以色列间谍活动的威胁提升到了最高级别。但参议院情报委员会的财政年度2027年情报授权法案（通常会被纳入最终版国防授权法案）中包含一项条款（第618条），实际上要求总统开展更多的情报合作，而非削减与以色列的情报共享。
Congress should be unwinding intelligence cooperation with Israel, not only on the moral grounds that no part of the U.S. national security apparatus should assist in genocide, but also because Pentagon officials raised the threat of Israeli spying to its highest possible level earlier this year. But instead of diminishing our intelligence sharing with Israel, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s FY27 Intelligence Authorization Act, which is typically incorporated into the final NDAA version, includes a provision (Sec. 618) actually mandating the president engage in even more intelligence cooperation.
这应当让我们停下来思考，因为以色列情报的性质存在缺陷，以及以色列利用这些情报为将美国拖入战争建立论据。据报道，正是以色列情报声称，特朗普发动战争后，伊朗政府可能在数周甚至数天内被推翻。然而，特朗普和内塔尼亚胡如今陷入了泥潭，战争给美国人民、美军官兵以及伊朗和地区各国人民造成了惨重代价。全球能源价格飞涨，战争成本平均每个美国家庭已超过2000美元，美国拦截导弹储备不足，补充需要数年时间。
This should give us pause because of the faulty nature of Israeli intelligence and the way Israel used this intelligence to build a case for dragging the United States into war. It was reportedly Israeli intelligence that claimed the Iranian government could be overthrown within weeks, if not days, of Trump launching the war. Instead, Trump and Netanyahu are now stuck in a quagmire, and the war has imposed a terrible cost on the American people, U.S. servicemembers, and people across Iran and the region. Energy prices around the world have skyrocketed, the cost of the war has already exceeded $2,000 per U.S. household on average, and the U.S. is running low on interceptor missiles that will take years to replenish.
这些似乎都不引起美国-以色列军事与情报一体化主要支持者的关注，例如民主防卫基金会总裁马克·杜比托维茨。在以色列右翼报纸《以色列今日》上发表的一篇专栏文章中，杜比托维茨说：“以色列和美国应当加深军事、技术、情报和经济一体化，以至于对以色列造成财务损害也会给华盛顿带来重大代价。”在一次采访中，杜比托维茨补充说，美国和以色列应当如此紧密地交织在一起，以至于任何针对以色列的问责措施，例如美国欧洲盟友正在制定的制裁，都将“对美国本身造成代价”。
None of this seems to concern the main backers of U.S.-Israel military and intelligence integration, like Foundation for Defense of Democracies President Mark Dubowitz. In a column published in Israel Hayom, the right-wing newspaper owned by the Israeli-American GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson, Dubowitz said: “Israel and the United States should deepen their military, technological, intelligence, and economic integration to such an extent that inflicting financial harm on Israel would also carry a significant cost for Washington.”In an interview, Dubowitz added that the U.S. and Israel should be so intertwined that any accountability measure against Israel, such as sanctions being enacted by American allies in Europe, would “impose costs on the U.S. itself.”
毫无疑问，支持国防授权法案所设想的这种一体化的人士想要尝试让美国无法与一个越来越被许多人视为流氓行为体的政权解除纠缠。
In no uncertain terms, advocates for the integration envisioned in the NDAA want to try to make it impossible for the U.S. to disentangle itself from a regime that is increasingly perceived by many as a rogue actor.
国防授权法案通常被视为国会的“必须通过”法案——事实上，国会已连续65年通过年度国防授权法案。但国会今年没有法定义务通过它，而且在不删除这些条款的情况下通过，将使美国与以色列的支持更加深度纠缠，这将是对选民意愿的直接背叛。在即使是共和党人也公开承认中期选举是对美国支持以色列的公投之时，国会通过包含这些一体化条款的国防授权法案将是一个不可原谅的选择。
The NDAA is usually considered a “must pass” bill in Congress — in fact, Congress has passed annual defense authorizations for 65 consecutive years. But Congress is under no statutory obligation to pass it this year, and doing so without stripping these provisions to become even more entrenched with supporting Israel would be an immediate betrayal of the will of voters. At a time when even Republicans are openly admitting the midterm election was a referendum on U.S. support for Israel, it would be an unforgivable choice for Congress to pass an NDAA with these integration provisions.
如果共和党人利用其委员会多数席位强行将这些条款纳入法案最终文本，民主党完全有能力在参议院通过阻挠议事来阻止法案通过，参议院通过法案需要60票。
If Republicans use their committee majorities to force their inclusion in the bill’s final text, Democrats have every bit of leverage to filibuster and block the bill’s passage in the Senate, which requires 60 votes.
在本届国会“跛脚鸭”会议期间，拒绝以最昂贵、最不透明、最危险的方式让美国与以色列关系更加密切，本应是国会做出的最容易的政治决定。
Saying no to bringing the U.S. into a closer relationship with Israel in just about the most expensive, opaque, and dangerous way imaginable should be the easiest political decision Congress makes during its current lame-duck session.