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

2. BACKGROUND ON MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL
From , 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
Current MOU to increase military aid to $30 billion from FY , 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. DIRECT COMMERCIAL SALES (DCS)
Top Ten Categories, FY
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

6. EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES (EDA)

7. 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.

8. 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

9. U.S. Weapons Used by Israel
‘OPERATION CAST LEAD’, DEC JAN. 2009
U.S. Weapons Used by Israel
F-16 and Apache helicopter gunships More than $300 million in spare parts ( )
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

10. U.S. LAWS GOVERNING ARMS TRANSFERS
Arms Export Control Act (P.L ): Weapons are limited to “internal security” and “legitimate self-defense” only.
Foreign Assistance Act (P.L ): “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.”

11. 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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