$10 million a day to Israel just doesn’t make sense!

Americans are hurting from a major economic downturn. Schools are closing, class sizes are increasing, wounded veterans are not receiving the care they need, families are losing their homes, businesses are going under, cities are cutting back fire and police departments and public transportation, the number of working homeless and hungry children are increasing.

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In survey after survery, three-quarters of Americans say we don't want to take sides, yet politicians keep sending our tax dollars to Israel. There is an extraordinarily well-funded special interest lobby that has pushed for this major expenditure. Until now, it has largely been unknown and unopposed. In 1963, Senator Fullbright discovered that money sent to Israel had been illegally funnelled back to groups in the US to lobby for still more money to be sent to Israel.

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Occupation

Israeli forces are occupying Palestinian land in violation of international law, subjecting the indigenous residents to an often brutal and humiliating military control and confiscating land from Palestinian families to build illegal colonies known as "settlements."

Palestinian civilians, including children, are regularly killed, maimed, wounded, and imprisoned without charge or trial in jails where torture is common.

Since 2000, 9,100 Palestinians and 1,185 Israelis have been killed, including 2,053 Palestinian children and 132 Israeli children. American blank-check aid enables this tragic cycle of violence. At the time of writing Israel holds 5,271 Palestinian prisoners, 196 of them children.

Human Rights Violations

Numerous American and international agencies, including the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Unicef, Christian Aid, and others, including a number of Israeli organizations, have repeatedly described profound human rights violations by Israeli forces funded with American money. In addition, the people around the world view the US as backing these unconscionable actions, causing growing hostility towards the US and placing our citizens in intolerable peril and our economy at risk.

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By giving militarists in Israel massive amounts of American money no matter what they do, it prevents the motivation for compromise that is necessary for a peaceful resolution. It undermines the work by Israelis and Palestinians striving for peace. Our aid is used to attempt to crush the nonviolent movement by Palestinian villagers.

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Israel spies on the US more than any other presumed ally. It has frequently stolen our technology and has, at times, even passed it on to adversaries of the US. Israel attacked a US navy ship, killing 34 and injuring 174, and has frequently violated US law. Israel's fundamental principles are at odds with the beliefs held by the vast majority of Americans.

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