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A new study aims to push Israel’s security and technology establishment to adopt a new policy after October. 7, 2023, business model that will advance the US-Israel strategic partnership in the Middle East and around the world.
The Henry Jackson Society study titled “Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power” points to a future in terms of advancing American and Israeli security interests.
Barak M. Seiner, co-author of the report, told Fox News Digital that the US “needs Israel for its security architecture in the region through the Abraham Accords and, more broadly, will be a power multiplier with respect to the technological edge against China.”
During President Donald Trump’s first term, his administration sealed diplomatic normalization deals between Sunni Gulf and North African countries: Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan, and Israel.
The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fired to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv on June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Seiner and co-author David Wurmser argue that there is an urgent need to reshape the US-Israel strategic partnership “around technology” and “shift from military aid dependence toward joint R&D and investment in shared technological platforms in defense-technology, AI, quantum computing, and next-generation warfare capabilities.”
“Israel should prioritize passing negotiated rules for sharing technology to prevent leakage of AI/quantum technology to China,” he wrote.
Seiner said the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (released in January) describes Israel as a strategic military partner. “This has never happened before.”
He further said, “Israel is gaining not only regional dominance, but also international power by connecting trade routes and digital connectivity. Israel cannot remain in a completely defensive posture and react by cowing down to threats on its borders.”
President Donald Trump bids farewell to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he leaves the White House after a meeting on April 7, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“The United States now wants to be part of this success story,” Seiner said after Israel’s successful air war campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran in June 2025.
He argues that President Donald Trump sided with Israel with military strikes because “Israel demonstrated intelligence prowess and military prowess. For the first time, the US joined Israel in the prosecution of a war”.
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As a result, Seiner said that Israel’s “defense technology makes it indispensable to countries.”
Seiner and Wurmser’s 51-page study details how the United States can strengthen American security and recommends “engaging Israel as a defense-tech and deep-tech power that is indispensable to Western security and global technological competitiveness in AI, semiconductors, missile defense, cyber capabilities, and supply chains for critical materials. Israel’s technological dominance should be leveraged to strengthen alliances and shape global supply chains.”
This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet firing shots while flying to intercept a hostile aircraft over the border area with southern Lebanon on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Mary/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the authors, it also highlights the instability of America’s European partners to show Israel’s need to “accelerate domestic lines of production of critical military systems, weapons, and energy infrastructure in order to reduce Europe’s sensitivity to foreign political pressure, such as relevant constraints on arms transfers, as well as Europe’s growing ambivalence.”
Earlier this month, Britain’s left-wing government reportedly denied the US military’s use of British bases to attack Iran.
Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of US Central Command, recently visited Israel as the official guest of Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir. (IDF Spokesperson Unit.)
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The study says Israel is uniquely positioned to help revive relations between Western powers. According to the authors, “There is an opportunity to use Israel’s defense-tech, quantum computing, AI and cyber capabilities as a tool of statecraft to deepen the alliance, prevent political isolation, and strengthen influence in Europe, the Gulf, and Asia.”
Seiner said, “Israel is not a superpower but a geopolitical power that gives nations a multiplier effect, and they benefit from Israel as a technological defense nation.”
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