When I served as the US Intelligence Operations Officer in Goeppingen, our "friends", the Israelis, thought it would be "fun" to sink the USS Liberty, and machine gun all Americans on board. At the time, General Sherrer, the commander of our 4th Armored Division commented: "With friends like these, we have no need of enemies!! As the President and Congress grapple with a formula to raise the debt-ceiling by next Tuesday to avert a default on our loans, we offer this suggestion to our elected officials: Cutting off the $30 billion in weapons pledged to Israel from 2009 to 2018 won't completely solve our debt problem, but it sure would help. From a moral and financial perspective, we cannot afford to provide Israel with the weapons it misuses to sustain its illegal 44 year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. In addition, you can educate your friends and neighbors about the true cost of arming Israel, and mobilize them to end our country's military support for Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights. Learn from experts how to place an ad in your community to oppose military aid to Israel. US Campaign member groups have purchased such ads in at least nine US cities. Find out how to make your city the next! Join us in a conference call on Thursday, August 4, at 9:00 pm Eastern time. 1. To join the call, dial (760) 569-7676, and use access code 545802#. No RSVP needed. 2. Join more than 2,000 people in more than 800 cities and 49 states, who are educating and mobilizing people in their communities. If you sign up to receive a packet in the mail, it will include postcards, petitions, flyers, fact sheets and stickers. 3. Get your city council to pass a resolution opposing military aid to Israel. Read our brand-new organizing how-to guide, download templates and resources, and let us help you publicize your campaign. 4. Find out the staggering amount of money that people in your state, congressional district, county and city give in weapons to Israel, and what that same amount could purchase instead for unmet needs like housing and health care. 5. Use the numbers on our website to write President Obama and your Members of Congress a letter opposing military aid to Israel. 6. Use those numbers to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or call in to your local talk show. Reference a recent story on the debt-ceiling negotiations, and make the point that we could reduce our debt and improve our moral and financial standing by ending military aid to Israel.
7. Learn more about the more than 670 million weapons transferred from the United States to Israel, and the devastating impact these weapons make on Palestinians living under Israel's brutal military occupation. 8. Sign up to arrange a local meeting with your members of Congress during the August recess, to discuss with them ending US military aid to Israel, and other policy issues. 9. Help end the US military and diplomatic support for Israel that enables it to deny Palestinians their freedom and self-determination.
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