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"You'll have to get over that civil liberties bullshit" says SFPD
Our small Food Not Bombs group was leaving our van to attand the rally at Jefferson Park when we where detained and harrased by SFPD.
Santa Rosa Food Not Bombs had just parked our van on Eddy and where unloading some food and literature, when a SFPD car pulled up to us. Two officers got out: Faliano badge number 1890 and Ferrigno badge number 290. They approached us and asked what we were doing. We replied parking our van and going to the rally and asked why they wanted to know. They replied that we were dressed in black and had bandannas and fit the profile. We where immediately indignant and expressed it, I noticed 1890 writing down our license plate, I began to take their badge numbers.
1890 then asked for my id, I asked if I was being arrested, he replied I was being momentarily detained, I gave him my id. At this point one of us began to take pictures. 1890 ran a warrant check on me, asked if I'd ever been arrested in San Francisco. I replied not in ten years, the warrant check came back negative and 1890 returned my id. As I was picking up our boxes and preparing to leave I said to 1890 that this kind of harassment, profiling and intimidation has a chilling effect on our right to assemble, speak and protest. He replied "you need to get over that civil rights bullshit, this is the way things are now and you need to let us do our job." I replied he needed to be ready for folks to take down his badge number and resist repression.
At this point 290 who had been fairly quiet said our van had several vehicle code violations and we might be towed or cited. Both officers told my companions that they were free to leave now and this matter only needed my presence. My fellows stayed. Debate between us and the police began to escalate. Passers by, workers and security guards at the adjacent apartment complex where watching closely.
A sergeant then arrived and took over negotiation, while the two original officers went around the van to tally up out vehicle code violations. After some more debate they came back with a fix it ticket, for not having a front plate attached. 1890 said he let us off easy. I asked if he could sign off the ticket now since I had the plate and a screw driver in the van. He refused, as did 290 and sarge. I asked what other violations I had that they didn't site me for. They said nothing. I thanked them loudly for not citing my cracked windshield and we left for the rally.
This event is minor, but it is a part of escalating repression. Most of our crew is young and inexperience a confrontation like this can quickly escalate to arrest and/or violence. The police consciously singled us out for our "black-bloc" appearance, pursued us because of our questions and defiance, tried to split us up and were ultimately reduced to writing a fix it ticket because of our unity and the attention of the people around us
1890 then asked for my id, I asked if I was being arrested, he replied I was being momentarily detained, I gave him my id. At this point one of us began to take pictures. 1890 ran a warrant check on me, asked if I'd ever been arrested in San Francisco. I replied not in ten years, the warrant check came back negative and 1890 returned my id. As I was picking up our boxes and preparing to leave I said to 1890 that this kind of harassment, profiling and intimidation has a chilling effect on our right to assemble, speak and protest. He replied "you need to get over that civil rights bullshit, this is the way things are now and you need to let us do our job." I replied he needed to be ready for folks to take down his badge number and resist repression.
At this point 290 who had been fairly quiet said our van had several vehicle code violations and we might be towed or cited. Both officers told my companions that they were free to leave now and this matter only needed my presence. My fellows stayed. Debate between us and the police began to escalate. Passers by, workers and security guards at the adjacent apartment complex where watching closely.
A sergeant then arrived and took over negotiation, while the two original officers went around the van to tally up out vehicle code violations. After some more debate they came back with a fix it ticket, for not having a front plate attached. 1890 said he let us off easy. I asked if he could sign off the ticket now since I had the plate and a screw driver in the van. He refused, as did 290 and sarge. I asked what other violations I had that they didn't site me for. They said nothing. I thanked them loudly for not citing my cracked windshield and we left for the rally.
This event is minor, but it is a part of escalating repression. Most of our crew is young and inexperience a confrontation like this can quickly escalate to arrest and/or violence. The police consciously singled us out for our "black-bloc" appearance, pursued us because of our questions and defiance, tried to split us up and were ultimately reduced to writing a fix it ticket because of our unity and the attention of the people around us
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I was there at the park and I didn't see you or the SR FNB crue there -- just Hittaway and his leek soup.
"Bash the state"
"Bash the state"
YOU DONT HAVE A LEGAL LEG TO STAND ON. YOUR COME TO SF (YOU ARE AN OUTSIDER) TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU. THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT. YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT.
"YOUR COME TO SF (YOU ARE AN OUTSIDER) "
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
"YOUR COME TO SF (YOU ARE AN OUTSIDER) "
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
"YOUR COME TO SF (YOU ARE AN OUTSIDER) "
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
(if this posts more than once, it is unintentional, but consider it an emphasis on how big of an idiot you are, thanks.)
"YOUR COME TO SF (YOU ARE AN OUTSIDER) "
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
"YOUR COME TO SF (YOU ARE AN OUTSIDER) "
>>>Since when was SF an exclusive club? It's one of the most well-known cities in the world. So of course you're going to get outsiders every fucking day. Stop being such a selfish and naive cuntrag.
"TO TRY TO FUCK THINGS UP SO THE POLICE PUT A STOP TO YOU."
>>>Protesting peacefully and being stereotypically-profiled is fucking things up....on whose part?? Oh wait, I forgot that by not doing anything illegal and getting in trouble for it is totally justified. I think I'll go fuck a cop right now for always being right, regardless of whatever situation.
"THEY HAVE 100% THE RIGHT TO DO THAT."
>>>They also have 100% the right to lick my vagina.
"YOU ARE WRONG. THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ARE RIGHT. LIVE WITH IT."
>>>And you are a moron. Weren't you just bitching about outsiders coming to SF? But....all the people of California are right? Then I guess that includes all these so-called "outsiders" coming to SF too. Make up your mind, you hypocritical fuck.
hahahah. man. sorry about the multiple posts. that sucks.
United States Aid to Israel: Funding the Occupation
Israel is a funded state. Despite its own relatively healthy economy, it continues to receive aid from the US, in disproportion to both the country’s population and needs.
The financial aid alone that Israel receives from the US allows it to purchase tanks, helicopter gunships, F-16 war planes, machine guns and bullets – all of which it uses to commit human rights violations against the Palestinian people on a daily basis. When it is not possible for the Israeli government to use the funds directly on military expenditure, their use elsewhere frees up other Israeli government funds to pay for military salaries, services and facilities.
Military power is required for Israel to maintain its occupation of the Palestinian territories, implemented through a system of expanding settlements, checkpoints and closure. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the US is funding and supplying the Israeli government’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, as without financial subsidies from the US, the Israeli government would have found it considerably more difficult to sustain its military occupation of the Palestinian territories for the past thirty-four years.
Snapshot of the state of Israel
Israel’s population is 6 million people, including:
› 182,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank
› 20,000 illegal settlers in the occupied Golan Heights
› 7,000 illegal settlers in the Gaza Strip
› 176,000 illegal settlers in East Jerusalem1
Israel ranks as the 16th wealthiest country in the world, and Israelis enjoy a per capita income higher than Ireland, Spain, or oil-rich Saudi Arabia.2
Israel’s GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.3
Since 28 September 2000, Israeli police, soldiers and settlers have killed more than 2,050 Palestinians -- the vast majority of them civilians -- in contravention of international law.
A BREAKDOWN OF UNITED STATES AID TO ISRAEL
Financial Aid
The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving over one-third of total US aid to foreign countries4, even though Israel’s population comprises just .001% of the world’s population and has one the world’s higher per capita incomes.
Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 – making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).5
The total cost of this financial aid to US tax payers per Israeli is $23,240.
Since 1992, the US has offered Israel an additional $2 billion in loan guarantees every year.6
Nearly all past loans to Israel have been forgiven – leading Israel to claim that they have never defaulted on repayment of a US loan – with most loans made on the understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them.
In 1997 alone, the total of US grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion, i.e., $15,068,493 per day.
Military Aid
The United States provides direct and indirect military aid to Israel – totalling more than it gives to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean put together, whose combined total population is 1,054,000,000.
According to a US Department of Defence Joint Report to Congress in March 2001, “It is in the United States’ national interest to promote the existence of a stable, democratic and militarily strong Israel, at peace with its neighbours […]”.7 According to a US State Department statement in November 2002, the US government is committed to “maintaining and enhancing Israel’s security and qualitative edge over any combination of adversaries” and “the important advantages the US-Israeli strategic relationship has and will continue to provide us.”8
Foreign Military Financing (FMF) is grants to foreign governments financing the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training. Israel receives 50% of the FMF budget request. The large sums paid by the US to Egypt and Jordan are in recognition of the two countries signing peace accords with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively.
FMF Budget Request FY 2001: Total budget request: $3.54 billion
Budget request for Israel: $1.98 billion
Budget request for Egypt: $1.3 billion
Budget request for Jordan $75 million
The Economic Support Fund (ESF) promotes economic and political stability in areas strategically important to the US. It is not intended for military usage, but allows the recipient government to free up other money, therefore providing indirect military aid. Israel receives the largest single grant of the Near East budget, which alone is 79% of the total ESF request.
ESF Budget Request, FY 2001: Total budget request: $2.313 billion
Budget request for Near East: $1.828 billion, including:
Israel $840 million
Egypt $150 million
WB/GS $100 million
Furthermore:
18 of the 92 pending arms sales transfers in the year 2000 were to Israel;
Israel has the world’s largest fleet of F-16s outside the US, currently possessing 200 jets -- with a further 102 on order with American manufacturer Lockheed Martin;
In June 2001 Israel again requested $800 million in supplementary US aid. This was originally pledged to cover the cost of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon – in other words, Israel was being paid for complying with international law. As Israel re-requests this package, administration officials have considered linking it to the implementation of the Mitchell Report, again effectively paying Israel to comply with international standards;9
Charitable Aid
Private donations to American charities initially constituted one quarter of Israel’s budget. Today, it is estimated that these tax-deductible donations exceed $1.5 billion per year. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax deductible contributions to a foreign government does not exist for any other country.
US aid to Israel: A violation of US law
US law prohibits the President from providing military aid to any country that “engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognised human rights”.10 Under the 1967 US Arms Export Control Act, it is illegal to use US weapons to carry out extra-judicial killings. This act stipulates that weapons be sold to “friendly countries solely for internal security and legitimate defence.”
Since September 2000, the Israeli army has used attack helicopters, tanks and F-16 missiles to target Palestinian civilians, homes, forces, buildings and in demonstrations. In its Human Rights Report, the US State Department declared that Israeli army actions were an “excessive use of force”, noting that the Israeli forces used live ammunition, even when they were not in imminent danger, and that the Israeli military “shelled PA institutions and Palestinian civilian areas in response to individual Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians or settlers”.
The Israeli government’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territories have been condemned by human rights organisations worldwide. The Israeli army’s “excessive use of force” towards Palestinian civilians and its policy of “state assassinations” violate international human rights law. In supplying military aid to such a state, the US is violating its own laws.
1 CIA World Factbook, July 2001
2 Zunes, Stephen, “The Strategic Function of US Aid to Israel” (Washington Report on the Middle East December 2002)
3 ibid.
4 Washington Report on the Middle East December 2002
5 Ibid, as of 1 November 1997.
6 Ibid.
7 Foreign Military Training and DOD engagements, Activities of Interest, vol. 1, (fiscal year 1999-2000), Joint Report to Congress, March 1, 2001. Full text available through Federation of American Scientists’ website
8 “US promises Israel $2.16 billion military aid 2004,” Reuters, 21 November 2002
9 The Jerusalem Post, 28/6/01
10 22 USC 2304(a)
Israel is a funded state. Despite its own relatively healthy economy, it continues to receive aid from the US, in disproportion to both the country’s population and needs.
The financial aid alone that Israel receives from the US allows it to purchase tanks, helicopter gunships, F-16 war planes, machine guns and bullets – all of which it uses to commit human rights violations against the Palestinian people on a daily basis. When it is not possible for the Israeli government to use the funds directly on military expenditure, their use elsewhere frees up other Israeli government funds to pay for military salaries, services and facilities.
Military power is required for Israel to maintain its occupation of the Palestinian territories, implemented through a system of expanding settlements, checkpoints and closure. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the US is funding and supplying the Israeli government’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, as without financial subsidies from the US, the Israeli government would have found it considerably more difficult to sustain its military occupation of the Palestinian territories for the past thirty-four years.
Snapshot of the state of Israel
Israel’s population is 6 million people, including:
› 182,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank
› 20,000 illegal settlers in the occupied Golan Heights
› 7,000 illegal settlers in the Gaza Strip
› 176,000 illegal settlers in East Jerusalem1
Israel ranks as the 16th wealthiest country in the world, and Israelis enjoy a per capita income higher than Ireland, Spain, or oil-rich Saudi Arabia.2
Israel’s GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.3
Since 28 September 2000, Israeli police, soldiers and settlers have killed more than 2,050 Palestinians -- the vast majority of them civilians -- in contravention of international law.
A BREAKDOWN OF UNITED STATES AID TO ISRAEL
Financial Aid
The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving over one-third of total US aid to foreign countries4, even though Israel’s population comprises just .001% of the world’s population and has one the world’s higher per capita incomes.
Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 – making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).5
The total cost of this financial aid to US tax payers per Israeli is $23,240.
Since 1992, the US has offered Israel an additional $2 billion in loan guarantees every year.6
Nearly all past loans to Israel have been forgiven – leading Israel to claim that they have never defaulted on repayment of a US loan – with most loans made on the understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them.
In 1997 alone, the total of US grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion, i.e., $15,068,493 per day.
Military Aid
The United States provides direct and indirect military aid to Israel – totalling more than it gives to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean put together, whose combined total population is 1,054,000,000.
According to a US Department of Defence Joint Report to Congress in March 2001, “It is in the United States’ national interest to promote the existence of a stable, democratic and militarily strong Israel, at peace with its neighbours […]”.7 According to a US State Department statement in November 2002, the US government is committed to “maintaining and enhancing Israel’s security and qualitative edge over any combination of adversaries” and “the important advantages the US-Israeli strategic relationship has and will continue to provide us.”8
Foreign Military Financing (FMF) is grants to foreign governments financing the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training. Israel receives 50% of the FMF budget request. The large sums paid by the US to Egypt and Jordan are in recognition of the two countries signing peace accords with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively.
FMF Budget Request FY 2001: Total budget request: $3.54 billion
Budget request for Israel: $1.98 billion
Budget request for Egypt: $1.3 billion
Budget request for Jordan $75 million
The Economic Support Fund (ESF) promotes economic and political stability in areas strategically important to the US. It is not intended for military usage, but allows the recipient government to free up other money, therefore providing indirect military aid. Israel receives the largest single grant of the Near East budget, which alone is 79% of the total ESF request.
ESF Budget Request, FY 2001: Total budget request: $2.313 billion
Budget request for Near East: $1.828 billion, including:
Israel $840 million
Egypt $150 million
WB/GS $100 million
Furthermore:
18 of the 92 pending arms sales transfers in the year 2000 were to Israel;
Israel has the world’s largest fleet of F-16s outside the US, currently possessing 200 jets -- with a further 102 on order with American manufacturer Lockheed Martin;
In June 2001 Israel again requested $800 million in supplementary US aid. This was originally pledged to cover the cost of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon – in other words, Israel was being paid for complying with international law. As Israel re-requests this package, administration officials have considered linking it to the implementation of the Mitchell Report, again effectively paying Israel to comply with international standards;9
Charitable Aid
Private donations to American charities initially constituted one quarter of Israel’s budget. Today, it is estimated that these tax-deductible donations exceed $1.5 billion per year. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax deductible contributions to a foreign government does not exist for any other country.
US aid to Israel: A violation of US law
US law prohibits the President from providing military aid to any country that “engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognised human rights”.10 Under the 1967 US Arms Export Control Act, it is illegal to use US weapons to carry out extra-judicial killings. This act stipulates that weapons be sold to “friendly countries solely for internal security and legitimate defence.”
Since September 2000, the Israeli army has used attack helicopters, tanks and F-16 missiles to target Palestinian civilians, homes, forces, buildings and in demonstrations. In its Human Rights Report, the US State Department declared that Israeli army actions were an “excessive use of force”, noting that the Israeli forces used live ammunition, even when they were not in imminent danger, and that the Israeli military “shelled PA institutions and Palestinian civilian areas in response to individual Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians or settlers”.
The Israeli government’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territories have been condemned by human rights organisations worldwide. The Israeli army’s “excessive use of force” towards Palestinian civilians and its policy of “state assassinations” violate international human rights law. In supplying military aid to such a state, the US is violating its own laws.
1 CIA World Factbook, July 2001
2 Zunes, Stephen, “The Strategic Function of US Aid to Israel” (Washington Report on the Middle East December 2002)
3 ibid.
4 Washington Report on the Middle East December 2002
5 Ibid, as of 1 November 1997.
6 Ibid.
7 Foreign Military Training and DOD engagements, Activities of Interest, vol. 1, (fiscal year 1999-2000), Joint Report to Congress, March 1, 2001. Full text available through Federation of American Scientists’ website
8 “US promises Israel $2.16 billion military aid 2004,” Reuters, 21 November 2002
9 The Jerusalem Post, 28/6/01
10 22 USC 2304(a)
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