{"id":3263,"date":"2008-07-05T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2008-07-05T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T22:52:50","slug":"take-action-outrageous-170-million-more-in-military-aid-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Take Action: Outrageous! $170 Million More in Military Aid to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endtheoccupation.org\/article.php?id=1664\">2 July 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough that Congress passed the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 two weeks ago, spending $165 billion more on our country\u2019s illegal war on and occupation of Iraq well into 2009.<\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury, after closely reading the bill, we discovered that Congress snuck in a last-minute earmark for $170 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for Israel!<\/p>\n<p>The culprit: <strong>Representative David Obey <\/strong>(WI-7), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, who has received nearly $225,000 from \u201cpro-Israel\u201d PAC\u2019s and more than $200,000 from the military-industrial complex since 1989, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/opensecrets.org\/politicians\/industries.php?cycle=Career&amp;cid=N00004394\">Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>. Yes, the same David Obey who can be seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=mS4wHMCc57k\">this video<\/a> berating peace activists for wanting to cut off funding for the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the US Campaign sent Rep. Obey a sharply-worded letter protesting his decision to slip this earmark for Israel into an unrelated bill at the last minute, thereby preventing any public scrutiny or debate. To view a copy of the letter, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endtheoccupation.org\/downloads\/obey_letter_7_01_08.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So why was this appropriation for military aid for Israel slipped into an unrelated bill at the last minute?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endtheoccupation.org\/article.php?id=1664\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation 2 July 2008 It\u2019s bad enough that Congress passed the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 two weeks ago, spending $165 billion more on our country\u2019s illegal war on and occupation of Iraq well &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-QD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}