5-16-2014 Report: Germany cancels military subsidy deal with Israel following breakdown of peace negotiations - Annie Robbins Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/05/following-breakdown-negotiations.html

 

Is Germany fed up with Israel? Berlin has nixed a deal to give Israel a 30% discount on a $1 billion purchase of German gunboats, allegedly to be used for the protection of Israeli offshore gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea. Reportedly Israeli national security adviser Joseph Cohen claimed Chancellor Angela Merkel made an "explicit" promise to subsidize the purchase of the gun boats during a joint meeting between German and Israeli cabinets last February, but his counterpart, Merkel's national security adviser Christoph Heusgen, denied that ever happened.

According to Haaretz, Heusgen told Cohen that there was "no chance" Germany's parliament would approve the deal "given the breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which has been blamed at least partly on Israeli settlement construction."

 

 

 

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