Saturday, January 14, 2012

Drive To Stop US Tax Dollars And Weapons To Israel

Together we've campaigned to end U.S. military aid to Israel for 10 years, and particularly the $30 billion of taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel scheduled between 2009 and 2018. We're organizing to end these weapons transfers both because of their horrific enabling of Israel's human rights abuses of Palestinians and because this money would be much better spent to fund unmet community needs.

While we will continue to press the President and Congress to hold Israel accountable for its misuse of U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. laws, we're also now taking our campaign to the local level, and working with our coalition member groups to pass city council resolutions to end U.S. aid to Israel and redirect that money to meet urgent community needs.

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