A hawkish pro-Israel think tank has laid out a plan to bind the US and Israel far closer together militarily, and critics call it a giveaway of American money and sovereignty.

• The plan asks for $3.8 billion a year in US military aid for another 10 years — about $40 billion total.
• It also wants US bases and a Central Command headquarters inside Israel, merged defense industries, and a limited mutual defense treaty.
• A proposed new NATO-style bloc would arm Arab states to defend Israel, but only if they normalize relations first — sidelining the Palestinians.
• The group's ideas already show up in the defense bill the House passed in July, and a key tech-and-data sharing provision moved without a floor vote.
• Headlines saying Israel wants to wean itself off US aid leave out that the same proposal asks for a decade more of it.

Outlook: Expect a fight over the next aid memorandum as Israel's political standing with the American public keeps slipping.