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Chomsky endorses Albany, NY ‘Stop $30 Billion Military Aid to Israel’ billboard

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Albany, New York billboard to Stop $30 billion Military Aid to Israel

The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel is proud to announce yet another billboard has just gone up calling for an end to military aid to Israel–this time in Albany, New York.

A new local group calling itself Stop 30 Billion NYS (New York State) has just distributed a press release, which is below.

Note that none other than Noam Chomsky has endorsed their billboard!

Albuquerque based Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel helped finance this billboard, plus helped with logistics, publicity strategizing, and community mobilization.

Congratulations to Mary Folsom and the rest of the organizers in Albany!

Press Release (PDF):

Where: Billboard is located on Fuller Road, between Cherry Street and Dorlyn Road, visible when travelling on Fuller from Central Avenue toward Washington Avenue.

How: Billboard is funded by donations.

Why: Because unconditional aid to Israel siphons funds from domestic use, and supports hard-line Israeli factions, thwarting a just peace.

Endorsements: The coalition has received the following statements endorsing the Board and its message:

“The billboard and web site communicate that huge grants of aid to Israel, unique in international affairs, are harmful to prospects for peace in a region in turmoil and encourage elements in Israel that are most dangerous – to its own future as well. They are also an outlandish drain the US budget, depleting funds need for constructive purposes, at home and abroad. They are a scandal that should be ended.”
Professor Noam Chomsky – Nationally known author, speaker, and political expert

“By placing a billboard in Albany calling on the United States to end $30 billion of taxpayer-financed weapons to Israel, Stop $30 Billion–New York State is providing a valuable resource to people in New York, educating them about how our tax dollars could be better spent on unmet community needs rather than on enabling Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.”
Josh Ruebner – National Advocacy Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

“I support the billboard calling for no military aid to Israel. Israel has not only continually violated the rights of the Palestinian people but has attacked it’s neighboring states, maintains nuclear weapons yet has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and today pushes for war with Iran and Syria.”
Joe Lombardo – Co-coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition http://unacpeace.org/

“Sending $30,000,000,000 of our money as military aid to a country with the 10th most powerful military in the world may seem like a good idea to politicians looking for campaign contributions from members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. But to Americans who are struggling to feed their families here at home or who care about health crises in less developed countries, it sends a message of indifference towards people who are in genuine need of help.
Paul Rehm, Christian Peacemaker Teams reservist
 

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Didn’t Obama recently pledge another $40 Billion to Israel on top of the $30 Billion Bush Jr pledged, which is now currently being paid? Extending US aid at $3 Billion per year for a decade to $4 Billion per year for yet another decade (thru 2028)?

Yes he did, over a month ago: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130324/DEFREG02/303240005/U-S-Israel-Negotiate-Military-Aid-Extension
I suggest the billboard be updated.

Thank you

Why not have a referendum if americans want to give Israel 4 billions of their well earned money? Why not even poll it?

No that wouldnt be possible would Lindsey Graham say, and THAT is the problem, these lobbyists value Israel more than the american nation/americans itself.

That billboard should strike a cord. The average American is as ignorant of the amount of their money that’s siphoned into that shitty little nation as they are about what they put in their stomachs masquerading as food. From personal experience I know that when those figures as mentioned, the average response is a wide open mouth and an “I had no idea” – Well, now, they’ll know. Good for them!