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| White House Negotiates U-Boat Sales To Egypt''s Islamist Government |
| 2012-09-11 |
| President Barack Obama’s deputies are negotiating a $1 billion aid package with Egypt’s new Islamist government, even as Egypt’s cash-strapped military revealed that it is trying to buy $1 billion worth of German submarines that could threaten Israel’s fast-growing offshore energy projects. The German government has pointedly declined to deny the incendiary revelation about Egypt’s request to buy the two submarines. Instead, the German government offered vague support for Israel, which is facing renewed threats from Iran’s nuclear program and the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt. “There has been no change in the German government’s position towards Israel, in the commitment the German government feels towards Israel’s security,” a spokesman for Germany’s chancellor told Der Speigel, a major German newspaper. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland did not respond to an inquiry by The Daily Caller. The submarine purchase will likely be an issue in the U.S. election, because both parties are vying for support from a relatively large concentration of swing-voting Jewish Americans in Florida. During the Democrats’ convention in Charlotte, for example, several speakers declared that Obama is a strong supporter of Israel’s defense. |
| Posted by:Thetle Phavinter1186 |
| #10 need to pull a Drudge and list this just under the article on the flag burning in Egypt.... |
| Posted by: Hupeng Slash2898 2012-09-11 19:38 |
| #9 This is an idiotic decision and makes no sense. Unless of course, you are a muslim. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-09-11 18:31 |
| #8 While the Egyptians storm our embassy and desecrate our flag. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-09-11 16:50 |
| #7 Sell 'em that pink one with the bad starboard engine... |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-09-11 14:36 |
| #6 Egypt can't feed itself and we are helping them buy high skill highly expensive weapons? I'm not sure I buy this story. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-09-11 14:26 |
| #5 Buying "friendship" of other nations never works in the long term. Look up Barbary Pirates and see how that worked out. The submarine purchase will likely be an issue in the U.S. election, because both parties are vying for support from a relatively large concentration of swing-voting Jewish Americans in Florida. Aren't these the same folks that Bernie Madoff targeted for his giga ponzi scheme? Hmmmmm. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2012-09-11 13:09 |
| #4 Specifically, why is the administration giving them military aid when Congress has officially placed such aid on hold until there is a determinition they've improved on human rights? |
| Posted by: lotp 2012-09-11 12:51 |
| #3 Cut all aid to Egypt and give it to Israel. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-09-11 12:42 |
| #2 Why are we still giving them $? Let them go to their new BFF the Chinese. |
| Posted by: Spot 2012-09-11 08:01 |
| #1 And our General Dynamics army tank factory, are they still clanking off the assembly line ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-11 07:06 |