Arms transfer to Israel during the Bush Administration.

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

2. BACKGROUND ON MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns Signs MOU with Israel, Aug. 2007 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

3. ARMS TRANSFERS TO ISRAEL DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION 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

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

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 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 Fighter Jet: Bombs, Missiles, Other Total: 28 Children : 16 House Demolition: Bombs, Other Total: 21 Children: 7 Explosion: Bombs, Booby-Trapped Cars, Shells Total: 7 Children: 6 Armored Personnel Carriers: Live Ammo, Other Total: 5 Children: 3 Miscellaneous: Beatings, Fires, Hit by Vehicles, Shelling, Tear Gas, Other Total: 60 Children: 11

10. 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.”

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