Pax Silica

Pax Silica Initiative
Type	US-led international semiconductor and AI supply chain alliance
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Website	https://www.state.gov/pax-silica
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Pax Silica

Pax Silica (full name: Pax Silica Initiative) is a US-led strategic alliance launched in December 2025 to build a secure, trusted semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain among allied democracies.

Founding members include the United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.

Israeli and Zionist Involvement

Israel is a founding member state. Its participation was negotiated and signed by high-level Israeli government officials, including Prof. Avi Simhon (Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister), Shmuel Abramson (Chief Economist at the Ministry of Finance), and Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Askal (Head of the National Artificial Intelligence Directorate).

In January 2026, the United States and Israel signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding on Defence and AI Cooperation in Jerusalem to deepen collaboration under the Pax Silica framework.

Israeli high-tech industry is heavily integrated. Nvidia operates its largest R&D hub outside the United States in Israel (over 5,000 engineers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheba). As part of the initiative, Israel proposed a new multibillion-dollar Nvidia technology campus in Kiryat Tivon.

No privately owned Jewish or Zionist companies are documented as direct owners or operators of the Pax Silica framework itself; involvement is primarily through the Government of Israel and its official technology and defence agencies.

Key Objectives

• Secure and resilient semiconductor and AI supply chains
• Intelligence-sharing and coordinated action against supply-chain risks
• Joint development of advanced technologies, including defence-related AI

U.S. Leadership and Governance

The initiative is coordinated by the U.S. State Department. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee attended the signing ceremony as an emissary of President Donald Trump.

Companies involved

Pax Silica is a government-to-government strategic alliance, not a corporate membership body. It operates through the flagship national technology, semiconductor, AI and critical-minerals companies of its member states to secure supply chains. Key companies linked to the alliance (by country and role) include:

Companies involved

Pax Silica is a government-to-government strategic alliance. It does not have corporate members. It operates through the flagship national technology, semiconductor, AI, and critical-minerals companies of its member states.

Company	Country	Role in Pax Silica	Documented ties to Israeli defence/military/tech sector or investments in Israel
Samsung and SK Hynix	South Korea	Dominant global suppliers of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips essential for AI accelerators	Maintain R&D and supply relationships with Israeli tech firms; no direct military contracts publicly documented.
ASML	Netherlands	Near-monopoly provider of advanced EUV lithography machines	Supplies lithography equipment used in Israeli semiconductor fabs; no direct military contracts publicly documented.
ARM	United Kingdom	Foundational chip architecture used globally in AI and mobile processors	ARM architecture is widely used in Israeli defence electronics; no direct ownership or military contracts publicly documented.
Sony	Japan	Supplies critical image sensors and materials	Maintains R&D partnerships in Israel; no direct military involvement publicly documented.
Intel and Nvidia	United States	Core designers of AI compute chips	Both have major operations in Israel. Intel operates large fabs in Kiryat Gat and Jerusalem with long-standing collaboration with Israeli defence industry. Nvidia operates its largest non-US R&D centre in Israel (over 5,000 engineers) and collaborates on AI technologies with Israeli military and intelligence entities.
G42 (and MGX)	United Arab Emirates	Leading Abu Dhabi-based AI development firm	No documented direct ties to Israeli military; part of broader Gulf–Israel tech normalisation.
Microsoft and OpenAI	United States	Frontier AI model developers and large-scale data-centre investors	Microsoft holds the Project Nimbus cloud contract with the Israeli government and military, providing cloud services used by the IDF and intelligence agencies.
SoftBank	Japan	Major global tech investor	Invests in multiple Israeli tech and defence startups through Vision Fund; no direct military contracts publicly documented.
Temasek	Singapore	State-owned investment firm	Invests in Israeli tech companies; no direct military ties publicly documented.
Google DeepMind	United Kingdom / United States	Premier AI research laboratory	Google (parent company) has the Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military, providing cloud and AI services to the IDF.
Rio Tinto	Australia / United Kingdom	Multinational mining giant supplying critical minerals	No documented direct ties to Israeli military or arms industry.
MP Materials	United States	Critical rare-earth mining company	No documented direct ties to Israeli military or arms industry.
Exiger	United States	Supply-chain management and compliance software firm	Provides due-diligence and risk-monitoring services used in Israel-related supply chains; no direct arms involvement documented.

Israeli high-tech integration

Israel is a founding member state. Its technology sector is heavily embedded through government agencies and companies such as Nvidia (which operates its largest R&D hub outside the US in Israel, employing over 5,000 engineers). Israel proposed a new multibillion-dollar Nvidia campus in Kiryat Tivon as part of the initiative.

Criticisms

Left-leaning outlets such as Mondoweiss have published an essay by William I. Robinson and M. Gürsan Şenalp which describes Pax Silica as a mechanism that integrates Western capital with Israeli surveillance and defence architectures.

Herein lies the key role that Israel plays in the new capital power axis. Israel is the world’s third largest tech hub. It globalized based on a high-tech-military-security-surveillance complex, integrated in turn into the webs of transnational finance capital. Like the larger global economy of which it is a part, it feeds off of permanent local, regional, and global violence, conflict, and inequalities. Endless rounds of destruction followed by reconstruction fuel profit-making not just for the arms industry, but for engineering, construction, and related supply firms, high-tech, energy, and numerous other sectors.

The Israeli genocide, to be followed now by the Board of Genocide are grisly laboratories for the new modality of transnational capital accumulation. The U.S. State Department has referred to the new global dispensation driven by the hegemonic capital bloc as Pax Silica. The Middle East has emerged as a regional corridor for Pax Silica predicated on an Israeli-Gulf state alliance that was to be cemented through the Board of Genocide inaugurated by Trump at the January 2026 World Economic Forum conclave.

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The true magnitude of the global capitalist plan for Gaza was revealed not in the 20-point plan but in the Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT), a U.S. government proposal that was leaked to the press prior to the ceasefire agreement. It is in this document that the macabre vision of a high-tech Pax Silica hub is laid out.

The GREAT plan called for a “voluntary” departure of Palestinians to another country, a string of AI-powered high-tech megacities, and some rump, unspecified Palestinian authority that would join the Abraham Accord. Those Palestinians allowed to stay would serve as civil servants, professional and manual laborers tightly controlled through Israeli biometric surveillance, checkpoints, monitoring of purchases, and Zionist education programs promoting normalization with Israel, thus making official Israel’s occupation and its administration of the concentration camp. In the GREAT vision, the Strip is to be converted into the staging point and gateway for what it termed a “New Abrahamic Architecture”

Gaza was the first AI war of the twenty-first century, an algorithmic genocide. If Global Trumpism gets its way, Gaza will now become the testing ground for the ruling classes to rule through technocratic authoritarianism, blood and capital. Among the 60 countries that Trump invited at the January 2026 Davos conclave, some 25 countries initially signed on to the Board, among them Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Qatar, and the UAE. Neither Russia nor China vetoed the resolution in the UN Security Council to approve the establishment of the Board. The inclusion of Israel and Netanyahu on the Board could not be a more cynical expose of the charade.