Berlin to provide Israel with 6th submarine

[Chris]

Berlin to provide Israel with 6th submarine
By HERB KEINON
11/30/2011 22:20
Germany to build and pay one-third of cost of Dolphin-type submarine, Israel's sixth in its fleet.

Germany will build and pay up to one-third of the cost of a sixth Dolphinclass submarine to be delivered to the navy, a German government official said on Wednesday. The agreement in principle to provide the submarine, which foreign reports say enhances Israel’s second strike capability since it can carry nuclear warheads, comes a month after reports that Germany was reconsidering the deal because of anger at the announcement of plans to build some 1,100 housing units in the capital’s Gilo neighborhood, over the Green Line. The German official said she did not know whether those reports were accurate. She said Germany will pay up to 135 million euros toward the submarine, which will cost between 372m. and 520m. euros. Talks on the deal for the sub stalled last year after the Germans declined to underwrite it, as they had done with previous submarine purchases.

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[micah719]

This is one expenditure of tax-money I wholeheartedly agree with. If they diverted their profits from trading with Iran they could supply a whole lot more. How about paying for decent living conditions for holocaust survivors....I hear they are doing it tough, and I wonder what happened to the mountains of money already paid in reparations. This world sucks.