Harry Reid: Israel May Need More Aid

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59. Also emailed my senators, representative, President Obama & VP Biden.

My basic message:

Dear Senator Boxer:

I feel compelled to write to express my deep distress about the ongoing crisis in Gaza, and to urge you not to support an additional dime of funding to Israel as long as it continues its current campaign in Gaza. The brutality of this latest military endeavor has been shocking and shockingly disproportionate. Our country should have nothing to do with supporting a military action that, to date, has an 80% civilian casualty rate by the IDF's own reckoning, and which has killed close to 250 innocent children in just a few days' time. Lending any further support to this kind of indiscriminate violence harms our nation's security interests. It is morally reprehensible. It diminishes our standing in the international community, whose norms Israel is violating in the most flagrant way.

Please, please, please -- find it in your heart to take a strong stand against the continued slaughter in Gaza, and say NO to any additional U.S. funds to Israel for any purpose so long as Israeli military operations in Gaza are ongoing. The United States should stand firmly against causing such wanton harm and suffering -- it should in no way facilitate it.

Thank you for your time and consideration.