ARMED AND DANGEROUS Arms Transfers to Israel during

ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Arms Transfers to Israel during the Bush Administration

BACKGROUND ON MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL From 1949 -2007, more than $101 billion in total U. S. aid to Israel Previous Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) phased out economic aid and increased military aid between FY 1999 -2008 Current MOU to increase military aid to $30 billion from FY 20092018, average increase of 25% Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns Signs MOU with Israel, Aug. 2007 President’s FY 2010 budget request for $2. 775 billion in FMF

ARMS TRANSFERS TO ISRAEL DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION Foreign Military Sales (FMS): $25, 203, 000 Direct Commercial Sales (DCS): $6, 161, 109, 945 Excess Defense Articles (EDA): $36, 048, 510 Jebalya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip after September-October 2004 attack by Israel. Total: $31, 400, 158, 455

FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS) Vehicles, $164 million: Joint carrier Missile & 39 Design, & billion: Littoral Combat Fighter, C-130 JNaval, $1. 9 billion: F-35 Troop. Strikeof infantry vehicles, Missiles$350 million: Construction Ships Air, $19. 81 Munitions, million: billion: armored bases Miscellaneous, $253 $2. 726 Patriot GBU-28 Trucks Small Diameter Bombs, TOW, Hellfire, Bunker Aircraft 30 Aircraft, M 72 A 7 Light Anti-Armor. T-6 A Texan Defeat Upgrade, JP-8 Aviation Jet Fuel, Weapons Munitions, AMRAAM, Harpoon, Sidewinder, JDAM’s, MK -80 series

DIRECT COMMERCIAL SALES (DCS) Top Ten Categories, FY 2001 -2006 1. Aircraft spare parts, $557, 895, 988 2. Missile spare parts, $448, 435, 429 3. Engine jet F-100 spare parts, $439, 172, 281 4. Engine jet F-100 series (F-15, F-16), $254, 240, 643 5. Aircraft fighter, F-16 spare parts, $209, 766, 607 6. Ship components and spare parts, $197, 708, 382 7. Aircraft fighter, F-15 spare parts, $186, 171, 596 8. Electronics components and spare parts, $163, 279, 072 9. Ammunition raw materials, $127, 709, 376 10. Training equipment, $120, 028, 890

EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES (EDA)

PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN FATALITIES From January 2001 November 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.

PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN FATALITIES Miscellaneous: Fletchettes, Explosion: Bombs, Other House Jet: Missiles, Grenades, Live Ammo, Fighter. Demolition: Bombs, Other Ammo, Other Tank: Bullets, Fletchettes, Live Ammo, Missiles, Helicopter: Bombs, Booby-Trapped Cars, Shells Shelling, Gunfire: Bullets, Beatings, Fires, Liveby Vehicles, Shells, Tear Armored Personnel Carriers: Hit Gas, Other Missiles, Rubber-Coated Bullets, Shells, Other Total: 1, 232 Total: 458 60 7 21 28 275 5 Children: 16 Children: 425 11 6 7 121 134 3

‘OPERATION CAST LEAD’, DEC. 2008 -JAN. 2009 U. S. Weapons Used by Israel • More than 1, 300 helicopter gunships F-16 and Apache Palestinians killed More than $300 million in spare parts (2001 -2006) • JP-8 Aviation Jet Fuel More than 5, 500 Palestinians 186 million gallons in July 2008 injured • Naval combat ships $1. 9 billion in littoral combat ships in July 2008 • TOW, Hellfire, “bunker buster missiles” UN and medical sources estimate at least half of casualties are • civilians GBU-39 small diameter bombs $1. 3 billion deal with Raytheon in October 2007 $77 million deal with Boeing in September 2008 • Tanks, APCs, Vehicles, Night-Vision Goggles 4, 000 buildings destroyed, $2 $450 million since 2001 billion in damage to civilian • infrastructure white phosphorous M 825 A 1155 mm shells

U. S. LAWS GOVERNING ARMS TRANSFERS Arms 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. ”

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Future military aid to Israel should be considered from moral, legal, and political perspectives. Is Israel using U. S. weapons for “legitimate self-defense”? Why should U. S. taxpayers be complicit in the deaths of Palestinian civilians? How do these arms transfers promote a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians? 2. Israel must be held accountable for its violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Congress must adhere to the provisions of the laws it enacts. Members of Congress should support Rep. Kucinich’s demand for a State Department investigation and make sure it is done completely and accurately. 3. Congress must condition future appropriations to protect innocent Palestinians from being killed by U. S. weapons. FY 2010 Foreign Operations appropriations bill should include loan guarantee language. Funds appropriated may be used "only to support activities in the geographic areas which were subject to the administration of the Government of Israel before June 5, 1967. "

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