Arms Transfers to Israel during the Bush Administration 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 FY1999-2008 Current MOU to increase military aid to $30 billion from FY2009-2018, average increase of 25% President’s FY2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in FMF Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns Signs MOU with Israel, Aug. 2007

ARMS TRANSFERS TO ISRAEL DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION 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 Jebalya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip after September-October 2004 attack by Israel.

FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS) Design, $350 million: Construction of infantry bases Vehicles, $164 million: Troop carrier armored vehicles, Trucks Naval, $1.9 billion: Littoral Combat Ships Missiles & Munitions, $2.726 billion: GBU-28 & 39 Small Diameter Bombs, TOW, Hellfire, Bunker Defeat Munitions, AMRAAM, Harpoon, Sidewinder, JDAM’s, MK-80 series Air, $19.81 billion: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, C-130J-30 Aircraft, JP-8 Aviation Jet Fuel, T-6A Texan Aircraft Miscellaneous, $253 million: Patriot Missile Upgrade, M72A7 Light Anti-Armor Weapons

DIRECT COMMERCIAL SALES (DCS) Top Ten Categories, FY2001-2006 Aircraft spare parts, $557,895,988 Missile spare parts, $448,435,429 Engine jet F-100 spare parts, $439,172,281 Engine jet F-100 series (F-15, F-16), $254,240,643 Aircraft fighter, F-16 spare parts, $209,766,607 Ship components and spare parts, $197,708,382 Aircraft fighter, F-15 spare parts, $186,171,596 Electronics components and spare parts, $163,279,072 Ammunition raw materials, $127,709,376 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 House Demolition: Bombs, Other Total: 21 Children: 7 Miscellaneous: Beatings, Fires, Hit by Vehicles, Shelling, Tear Gas, Other Total: 60 Children: 11 Explosion: Bombs, Booby-Trapped Cars, Shells Total: 7 Children: 6 Fighter Jet: Bombs, Missiles, Other Total: 28 Children: 16 Gunfire: Bullets, Fletchettes, Grenades, Live Ammo, Missiles, Rubber-Coated Bullets, Shells, Other Total: 1,232 Children: 425 Helicopter: Missiles, Other Total: 458 Children: 134 Tank: Bullets, Fletchettes, Live Ammo, Missiles, Shells, Other Total: 275 Children: 121 Armored Personnel Carriers: Live Ammo, Other Total: 5 Children: 3

U.S. Weapons Used by Israel ‘OPERATION CAST LEAD’, DEC. 2008-JAN. 2009 U.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 September 2008 Tanks, APCs, Vehicles, Night-Vision Goggles $450 million since 2001 M825A1155mm white phosphorous shells More than 1,300 Palestinians killed More than 5,500 Palestinians injured UN and medical sources estimate at least half of casualties are civilians 4,000 buildings destroyed, $2 billion in damage to civilian infrastructure

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 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? 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. Congress must condition future appropriations to protect innocent Palestinians from being killed by U.S. weapons. FY2010 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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