Germany to sell Israel two more subs at major discount

JUST OBSCENE.

According to the magazine reports, the outgoing government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder acceded to the Israeli government's requests, and even agreed to pay about a third of the cost of the submarines. Construction of the submarines, which will take place at the shipyards in Kiel, will cost around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion), of which a third will be financed by the German government.
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Two of the three submarines, built to Israeli specifications, were given to Israel gratis following the Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War after it turned out that German companies had aided Saddam Hussein's weapons program.
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According to foreign media reports, the growing concern over Iran acquiring nuclear weapons has led Israel to develop nuclear "second-strike capability," and submarines, which cannot be detected and targeted, constitute an effective means to that end. That conclusion, according to foreign media reports, was also drawn from the fact that the torpedo hatches on the Dolphin submarines supplied to Israel have been substantially widened - which ostensibly indicate they are intended for launching nuclear missiles.

I don't especially believe Iran is building nuclear weapons for use against Israel or the United States. I do believe the United States is trying to make that case as part of the continued plan to execute the quest for American imperial power as spelled out in the Project for a New American Century. I do believe the United States is building nuclear weapons, so called "bunker busters" it thinks are deployable, and no administration has ever shown a higher likelihood of launching a nuclear war than this one with its gaggle of hyper-aggressive, arrogant, narcissistic, lying dumbasses.

I also view Israel is a terrorist state. And I know the United States is exactly that. And I am sick to death of AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY BEING SCULPTED TO SUIT THE NEEDS OF ISRAEL, the Weapons and aerospace industry and other business concerns. IT IS BAD FOR US AND BAD FOR THE WORLD. Adhering to crazy policies formed decades ago when they demonstrably do not work is INSANE.

Why not do something to enhance our energy independence rather than piss away our resources propping up this outmoded method, this of plopping Israel down in the middle of oil rich Arab nations to keep the Arab governments unstable so we can empower their biggest crooks and take their oil on the cheap?