More Than A Thousand Members Of Pro-Israel NORPAC Lobbied Congress, Discussing Assistance To Israel

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- More than a thousand members of the pro-Israel NORPAC lobbied Congress, discussing assistance to Israel and the Palestinians and sanctions on Iran.

NORPAC, a national pro-Israel political action committee based in New Jersey, held over 470 meetings during its action day on Capitol Hill, April 6. Its members asked for assistance to Israel to continue at current levels, called for aid to the Palestinians to be linked to action on incitement and favored tougher sanctions on Iran.

The major talking point was to press for aid to Israel to remain at the pledged level of $3 billion.

Most members of both parties are committed to those levels, but lobbies across the board are taking pre-emptive action at a time when the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is pushing for less spending overall.

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http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/04/11/3086830/norpac-stresses-aid-on-lobbying-day

[damntexdem]

1. How disgusting to fund Israel, while cutting those in need.

[Lasher]

2. US foreign aid to Israel was $2.4 billion in FY 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

How much was foreign aid did the US give Israel in FY 2010?

Looks like we'll be giving them $205 million for missile defense, in addition to the $3 billion mentioned in your article.

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000637647&fid=1725