MILITARY AID TO MILITARY AID TO ISRAELISRAEL

CAN WE CAN WE AFFORDAFFORD IT? IT?

U.S. AID TO ISRAEL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL

Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns Signs

MOU with Israel, Aug. 2007

•1949-2007, $101 billion total U.S. aid to Israel, according to CRS

•FY1999-2008 MOU phased out economic, increased military aid

•FY2009-2018 MOU increases military aid to $30 billion (average 25% yearly increase)

ARMS TO ISRAEL: ARMS TO ISRAEL: BUSH BUSH

Jebalya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip after September-October

2004 attack by Israel.

Foreign Military Sales (FMS):$25,203,000,000

Direct Commercial Sales (DCS):$6,161,109,945

Excess Defense Articles (EDA):$36,048,510

Total: $31,400,158,455

IMPACT ON IMPACT ON PALESTINIANSPALESTINIANSFrom Jan. 2001-Nov.

2008, Israel killed 2,086 Palestinian civilians not taking part in hostilities, of whom 723 were children under 18.

Data taken from B’tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.

IMPACT ON IMPACT ON PALESTINIANSPALESTINIANSGunfire: 1,232

Helicopter: 458

Tank: 275

Fighter Jet: 28

House Demolition:21Explosion: 7

APC: 5

Miscellaneous: 60

GAZA: DEC.’08-GAZA: DEC.’08-JAN.’09JAN.’091,387 Palestinians

killed* 773 civilians* 248 civilian police* 36 undetermined(Source: B’Tselem, Sept. 2009)

More than 5,500 Palestinians injured

4,000 buildings destroyed, $2 billion in damage to civilian infrastructure

GAZA: DEC.’08-GAZA: DEC.’08-JAN.’09JAN.’09U.S. Weapons Used by Israel

F-16 and Apache helicopter gunships: more than $300 million in spare parts (2001-2006)

JP-8 Aviation Jet Fuel:186 million gallons in July 2008

Naval combat ships: $1.9 billion in littoral combat ships in July 2008

TOW, Hellfire, “bunker buster missiles”: $1.3 billion deal with Raytheon in October 2007

GBU-39 small diameter bombs:$77 million deal with Boeing in Sep. 2008

Tanks, APCs, Vehicles, Night-Vision Goggles: $450 million since 2001

M825A1155mm white phosphorous shells

CHANGE UNDER CHANGE UNDER OBAMA?OBAMA?

Netanyahu, Obama, Abbas in New York, September

2009

Delivery of more than 300 containers of weapons to Israel, Mar. 2009

FY2010 budget of $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel, Apr. 2009

FY2011 budget request of $3 billion in military aid to Israel, Jan. 2010

U.S. WEAPONS LAWSU.S. WEAPONS LAWSArms Export Control Act (P.L.80-829): Weapons are limited to “internal security” and “legitimate self-defense” only.

Foreign Assistance Act (P.L.97-195): “No assistance may be provided…to the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”

“Leahy Law” (Foreign Ops Appropriations Act): No aid to “any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that such unit has committed gross violations of human rights.”

KANSAS CITY’S KANSAS CITY’S SHARESHARE

How Much Aid to Israel?

FY2009-2018: $78,626,021

Affordable housing: 955

Green jobs training: 1,305

Early reading: 2,325

Health care: 63,675

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