The document summarizes U.S. arms transfers to Israel from 2001-2008 under the Bush Administration. It reports that the U.S. provided over $31 billion in weapons to Israel through foreign military sales, direct commercial sales, and excess defense articles. This included aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, and other weapons. It also notes that these U.S. weapons were used in Israeli attacks that killed over 1,300 Palestinians, including many civilians, during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009. The document concludes by calling for U.S. policy to condition military aid on Israel upholding human rights and pursuing a just peace.

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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