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New billboard links continued aid to Israel to interstate bridge collapse

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“Stop $30 Billion to Israel” 14′ x 48′ billboard facing westbound on I-90, outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and near the Spokane, Washington, suburbs. Interstate 5 bridge collapsed in Washington state.

Spokane Veterans for Peace:

While social programs and infrastructure in the United States, across the board, are being devastated by the sequester cuts, AIPAC (American Israel Political Action Committee) successfully lobbied Congress to INCREASE aid to Israel, not to include it in the sequester cuts. The U.S. will give Israel an additional $200 million dollars during this fiscal year, on top of the $10 billion already slated.

American aid to Israel is given in cash at the start of each fiscal year. The only stipulation imposed on Israel’s use of this cash gift is that it spend 74 per cent to purchase U.S. military goods and services.

Spokane Vets for Peace views our $30 billion funding for Israel as both unnecessary and counterproductive to the aims of 1) peace in the Middle East and 2) filling domestic needs.

Stop 30 Billion cofounder Armen Chakerian: “the Coalition has helped put up billboards in 10 cities around the country, including Denver, LA, San Francisco, …and Spokane.”

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Bravo Spokane VFP! Great image, great message– thank you!

Fabulous Billboards.

I just bet the zios and their apologists hate driving to work every day having to look at these.I also hope the traffic is REAL slow.

Great! Keep it up! It’s actually $170 Billion, going by the prior US track record, which reveals about $3 Billion per year, but that doesn’t count interest and all the indirect aid, which amounts to a minimum of $17 Billion per year adding up both direct and indirect aid.

Also the billboard’s $30 Billion refers to Bush’s ten year promise @- $3 Billion per year in direct aid. Obama has since then promised, what, $4 Billion per year in direct aid for the following 10 years? I forget the exact figure, but its a lot higher than Bush’s 10 year promise.

excellent!!! this could start a great trend.
Way to stick it to the man! lol…

From the Observer last April 2:

“The strength of the Jewish Lobby in Washington DC has been demonstrated once again with US President Barack Obama’s approval of a new congressional bill which boosts US taxpayer donations to $11 million every day.
Previously, this figure stood at “only” $8 million every day, but in terms of the now finalized “United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012,” American taxpayers will give an additional $40 billion in military funding to Israel over a ten-year period.
The military aid package will automatically start when the current 10-year aid package (worth $30 billion), signed by President George W. Bush in 2007, comes to an end.”

Actually under Bush Jr’s 10 year package it amounted to giving in direct aid $ 8.5 Million every day.