Arab- American institute calls for halting arms sales to Israel

The Arab- American Institute in Washington on Thursday called on the US to halt selling weapons to Israel, following the Israeli aggressive practices launched against the unarmed Palestinians in the occupied territories.

News reports said that the institute said in a message it sent to the US secretary of state Colin Powell that Israel uses the US- made weapons especially Tao missiles against the Palestinian citizens, their houses and properties and thereby violating the monitoring measures on the American weapons exports.

The Institute called on the US and on light of Israel's use of Tao missiles and striking helicopters to make an immediate investigations and to suspend all military weapons used in a way violating the law of monitoring the exports of the American weapons.

The Institute indicated that former US President Ronald Reagan suspended for two times the transfer of weapons to Israel during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.