Aid to Israel
Annual U.S. assistance is a key element of U.S. support for Israel. It helps Israel maintain its qualitative military edge in the region and remain strong and secure. It is also a tangible expression of the enduring U.S.-Israel relationship.
Continued robust U.S. assistance for Israel sends an important signal of U.S. support for and solidarity with Israel. The longstanding ban on the use of U.S. assistance to support settlement activities - reflecting U.S. recognition that settlements are a threat to Israel's security and viability as a Jewish state and a democracy - also sends an important signal of U.S. disapproval of Israel's settlement policies.
U.S. assistance is also vital, in real and symbolic terms, in preparing the ground for any future Israeli-Arab peace agreement. It should be recalled that U.S. assistance for Israel (and Egypt) was a key element of the Camp David Accords, which gave birth to an historic peace agreement that has stood the test of time.
Any future peace agreement with the Palestinians, Syria, or the Arab world will require Israel to take serious, calculated risks. It is in no small part the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship, as embodied in U.S. financial support for Israel, which has provided Israelis the confidence to take such risks thus far, and will reassure them in similar decision-making in the future.
APN supports continued robust U.S. assistance to Israel, with the continued requirement that no U.S. assistance be used to support settlement-related activities in the West Bank. APN also believes Congress should demand greater accountability regarding Israel's expenditures on settlements, including reporting from the State Department on the amount of funds Israel is expanding annually across the Green Line to support and expand Israeli residential development.
(Feb. 2011)
- 5/16 5:22a Minister Meridor predicts: Ulpana neighborhood in WB settlement of Beit El will be removed, as Sup' Court ordered http://t.co/8Ba479nG
- Israeli leading columnist explains Likud-Kadima alliance
- 5/15 12:33p Israeli Minister Landau says Jews respecting Palestinians' narrative of loss in 1948 is like commemorating dead Nazis. http://t.co/n52YjMQU
- Price-Dreier letter
- 5/16 4:49a Israel’s drone dominance. Tangential to direct peace issues, but worth reflecting upon. http://t.co/TyTzb3J8
- APN Urges Members to vote "No" or "Present" on H. Res. 568 (Iran resolution)
- 5/7 7:27a RT @peacenowisrael The Court Ordered the Eviction of the Ulpana by July 1st : http://t.co/SAMIBSc4
- 4/19 A new settlement in Beit Hanina
- 5/10 1:16p Just heard Israeli writer Stuart Schoffman. Always great! Says instead of BDS, concern is PDD (polarization, demonization, denial)
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