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ISRAEL: WE WANT MORE SUBS!.... 

Posted By: FarSight3 <Send E-Mail>
Date: Friday, 22 October 2004, 1:00 p.m. 

Israel negotiating with Germany about sale of additional Submarines 

The director-general of the Defense Ministry, Amos Yaron, visited Berlin
this week and met with his German counterpart Defense Minister Peter
Struck, some high ranking Bundeswehr officers and the defense committee
of the Bundestag - Germany's lower house of parliament - on the issue of
the sale of two brandnew Submarines to the IDF -'Made in Germany'. 

Israel wants Germany to fund the construction of these Submarines -
costing about 1.2 billion Euro - or to grant an interest-free loan.
Struck - and according to an article in Haaretz, the German treasury as
well - is opposed to this idea. For the popular 'justification' of this
deal an interesting argument was pulled out of the hat which reads as
'...because of the anniversary of 40 years diplomatic relationship
between the two countries...' (beginning of 2005) - as Israeli daily
Haaretz reported further today. 

The funding seems to be a bigger problem than the fact that Germany is
barred from selling offensive arms to crisis zones. 

At the visit of DM Struck in Israel this June both countries had declared
'that the military cooperation between both countries should be
intensified'. But Struck made it rather clear that the German government
wouldn't support any financial aid for that prospective deal... 

Haaretz tried to 'interpret' it this way: 
"...According to German defense sources, Germany's Defense Ministry and
military support Israel's request, which would supply employment at
shipyards. However, implementing the deal requires approval by the
government, which is divided on the issue.... 

..Israel wants Germany to partially fund the construction of the
submarines, which is expected to cost nearly $1 billion, or to grant a
long-term interest-free loan. The German treasury is opposed to these
ideas...." 

Open was left although the matter whether as an 'alternative' the three
Dolphin-class submarines, already 'provided' to Israel by German
taxpayers, should be 'rearmed on large-scale'. After 1990 these first two
Dolphin class submarines were delivered allegedly free of charge and an
extended loan for Dolphin#3 was granted to Israel and it is questionable
whether this 'loan' was repaid at all... 

Hmmm, but I do remember that they were 'rearmed on large-scale' already
with US Harpoons - according to the Washington Post - easily to be
re-equipped with nuklear warheads 'Made in Israel'... 

All this was undertaken for sure because of Israel's 'fear' of Iran's
possible, 'nuklear capacities'. 

Can fear beat faith? 

War on Error, Part 22:"Sunburn" 
Far Sight 3
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