1) Oppose the President's FY2009 budget request for $2.55 billion in military aid for Israel. For background information, fact sheets and other resources, action alerts, and more on this issue, please click here.

2) Support legislation to restrict the use and export of cluster munitions and encourage the United States to sign on to a global treaty abolishing them. The Friends Committee on National Legislation has put together a great fact sheet on cluster bombs, which can be downloaded by clicking here. The United Nations has put together a detailed map of confirmed Israeli cluster bomb strikes in Lebanon which can be downloaded by clicking here and a graph of cluster bomb casualties which can be downloaded by clicking here.

H.R.1755 and S.594 limit the use, sale, and transfer of cluster munitions.For information on the House resolution, please click here. For information on the Senate resolution, please click here.

H.J.Res.91 and S.J.Res.37 urges the United States to sign a new global treaty banning cluster munitions. For information on the House resolution, please click here. For information on the Senate resolution, please click here.

If your Members of Congress have already sponsored or cosponsored these resolutions, then thank them for doing so. If they haven't yet cosponsored these resolutions, then ask them to add their names to the growing list of cosponsors.

3) Support legislation expressing appreciation for the work of Palestinian and Israeli NGO's working for a just and lasting peace. For information on H.Res.1369, please click here.