Davis / 4 Senator Nemati

S.R. ___

A BILL
To defund aid to Israel as long as it is occupying Palestinian territory.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This act may be cited as the Hariyah Act of 2015.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) To date, the United States has provided Israel 237 billion dollars (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral
assistance and almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance or economic assistance.
2) The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that in 2014 2,314 Palestinians were killed in Gaza,
including 1,462 civilians, among them 495 children and 253 women-- those U.N. numbers would mean that 69 percent of
the total killed were civilians.
3) Numerous UN resolutions have stated that the building and existence of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East
Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are a violation of international law, including UN Security Council resolutions in 1979 and
1980.
4) In 2007, the Bush Administration and the Israeli government agreed to a 10-year, 30 billion dollar military aid package
for the period from FY2009 to FY2018.
5) During his March 2013 visit to Israel, President Obama pledged that the United States would continue to provide Israel
with multi-year commitments of military aid subject to the approval of Congress.
6) Israels activities in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem resulted in the deaths of 2,314 Palestinians and 17,125
injuries in 2014.
7) In 2014, Israel's missile strike hit an UNRWA shelter at a school and killed 9 people, including five children, who sought
refuge in the school-- an act the UNRWA has strongly condemned.
8) In 1979 and 1980, numerous UN Security council resolutions, including 446, 452, 465, 471 and 476, considered the
settlements as having "no legal validity" under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
9) Israel's establishment of civilian settlements by military commanders were considered temporary measures needed for
military and security purposes that ended up being permanent.
10) The United States has given a total of 237 billion dollars in aid to Israel-- a country with only a population of 7,707,042
people-- to date.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) The Hariyah Act of 2015 shall hereby terminate U.S. aid to Israel as long as it is occupying Palestinian territory.
Palestinian territory is defined as the Palestinian borders before Israeli occupation in 1967. The Hariyah Act of 2015 shall
terminate the agreement put forth by the Bush Administration regarding 30 billon dollars of military aid towards Israel for
the period of FY2009 to FY2018. This act shall terminate all forms of aid and assistance, including but not limited to
military aid and economic assistance.
B) The Department of Defense shall be responsible for its termination of aid to Israel and shall be responsible for the
reinstatement of aid once Israel has proven its territories are not occupying Palestinian territories.
C) The Hariyah Act of 2015 shall be enacted on January 1, 2016.

Since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the United States government has been giving aid to Israel in the form
of military and economic assistance. It has been 67 years of constant giving from the United States government,
which has impacted the government in less than stellar ways and adds to its long list of involvement in
controversial conflicts. Giving aid to a State that is currently occupying territory and enforcing apartheid on its
occupied peoples gives the impression that the United States supports the same principles Israel does. The
Hariyah Act of 2015, which states that the United States needs to defund aid to Israel as long as it is occupying
Palestinian territory, should become a law because the amount of aid is detrimental to the U.S. government, the
U.S. is giving aid to a State that puts occupied Palestinian lives in danger, and the U.S. is giving aid to a State
that under international law is not a legal State.

The amount of aid the United States has given and is still giving is a serious detriment to its government,
especially when the government is in an extreme amount of debt. The United States, as of today, is in more than
eighteen trillion dollars of debt, and this debt is expected to approach 21 trillion dollars by 2019. This debt can
be easily brought down by cutting out trivial aid, such as the aid given to Israel. To date, the United States has
provided Israel, a country with only 7,707,042 people, 237 billion dollars in bilateral assistance, and almost all
U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military or economic assistance. This aid to Israel is mostly used for
nuclear materials, foreign military financing, and resettlement of Jewish migrants. The U.S. is currently in a ten
year, 30 billion dollar military aid agreement with the Israeli government from the period of 2009 to 2018, a
military aid package agreed upon by the Bush Administration in 2007. In his recent March 2013 visit to Israel,
President Obama pledged that the United States would continue to provide Israel with multi-year commitments
of military aid subject to the approval of Congress. By cutting out aid to Israel, as long as it is occupying
Palestinian territory, the U.S. would cut down on its national debt by a tremendous factor, and it would also
ensure the human rights of current occupied peoples.

The United States is currently giving 30 billion dollars of military aid to a State that continuously puts
Palestinian lives in danger. In 2014 alone, 2,314 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including 1,462 civilians,
among them 495 children and 253 women. Those numbers, reported by the United Nations, would mean that 69
percent of the total people killed in Gaza in 2014 were civilians. Along with the deaths of 2,314 Palestinians,
Israels activities in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem resulted in 17,125 injured Palestinians in
2014. These numbers continue to rise with recent attacks, such as the attack on a United Nations Relief and
Works Agency (UNWRA) shelter in 2014. Israel's missile strike hit an UNWRA shelter that was located in a
school, and killed nine people, including five children, who sought refuge in the school-- an act that the
UNWRA has strongly condemned because their shelters are known for only housing unarmed civilians. The
Israeli government has continuously violated the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that you can never
target civilians in time of war, especially women and children The attacks, segregation, and human rights
violations towards Palestinian people by the Israeli government is tied to the United States because of its
military aid, and this gives the impression that the United States doesn't condemn these acts, which they have
done time and time again.

The United States is giving a colossal amount of aid to a State that isn't even a legal State. Numerous
UN resolutions, including 446, 452, 465, 471, and 476, have stated that the building and existence of Israeli
settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and he Golan Heights are a violation of international law, and
these settlements have no legal validity under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The Hariyah Act of 2015 should become a law because the amount of aid given furthers the United
States into debt, the US is giving aid to a State that denies basic human rights to its occupied Palestinian people,
and the US is giving aid to a State that under international law has absolutely no validity. This issue is not just
between Israel, Palestine, and the United States; it's an issue between the world and peace.