Israel wants Berlin to finance two new warships - Germany

Israel is hoping to order two modern German-made warships without paying for them, daily Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday.

Sources within the German government told the paper that Israel wants the Berlin to finance the MEKO corvettes, a sum that would reportedly reach hundreds of millions of euros.

The paper reported that the government has not yet reacted to Israel's request. But "influential politicians from northern Germany," where the shipbuilding industry is suffering from the global economic downturn, are apparently supportive in the interest of keeping German shipyards in business.

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Blohm and Voss did build the Bismarck, so have a good track record in the area of warship building:)
A suggestion, since Israel wants some warships, maybe they could take a Yamato class Battleship design, increase it to four turrets from three for heavy shore bombardment and anti-piracy control. They could make it 5 metres broader and add some very heavy missle, heavier armour on the keel/topside, comand and control, replace 15cm guns with heavy missle and multiple clustered phalanx systems, add anti-submarine capacity, disaster management systems and a series of nuclear power reactors that can also act as a temporary nuclear power station. Then you will have ship capable of taking heavy punishment and also dishing it out. A series of small aircraft carriers, missle crusiers and destoyers would also be good as a compliment:)
Seriously if the German government wants to give shipyard buidlers work, it should design and build the largest cargo ships it can with the latest nuclear engines so as to cut down on greenhouse emissions and increase efficieny of transport of goods to and from the far east.
When the routes across the arctic start to open up over the next 20 years, there will be a corresponding increase of trade around the Artic circle. Germany should position its ship building industry to take full advantage of that.

Did I read that correctly, "give it to them, free"?

I'm sorry? Give the things away? Whatever is the reasoning behind that then?

Yes, "give them for free" ! Remember 1933-1945? Germany
should always be a strong supporter of Israel!

petenick, if you don't like Germans, what are you doing on this websit? Go to an Israelian site. I don't understand it, all of you who like to throw stones, probably live in glass houses!!!

petenick, if you remember 1933 I'm surprised you know how to use a computer. For the rest of us we live in the 21st century and know Germany has already paid for what it did. Israel isn't the holocaust country, its people from all over the world and has a smaller population ratio of Jews than some western nations have of Christians, so even if Germany still owed money, which it doesn't, why would it give it to Israel?

What a bargain! There's nothing like getting other countries to provide your weapons for free.
It's past time for Germans to get off their knees, stop smiling like a doughnut and tell them to get lost.
The least they could do is spend some American money for them.

Germans should give me some nice weapons and maybe a little cash on the side. After all, I'm of Scottish decent. I'm sure the Germanic tribes did something terrible to my ancestors in the past. Let me know where to forward my shipping address & bank routing numbers. Danke!

Giving any military hardware to Israel is foolhardy. There is no control over its use regardless of what they sign. That has been proven with US military hardware that Israel used against Lebanon in violation of its contract.
Billions of dollars continue to be shelled out to Israel and they have yet to be abide by any UN Resolutions concerning their occupation of Palestine. Why do they need warships? Who do they plan to attack next?

DarExc, NO amount of money or compensation can make up for how much the German Nazis plundered from Jews, as well as the millions who were murdered in labor and concentration camps. Nevertheless, it's still blood money, and German's should feel honored that the State of Israel considers Germany a friend....which in its heart of heart's it is not as you have just shown. Yours is the true feeling of the majority of Germans and unfortunately because of that, Jews and all foreigners in Germany live under the constant threat of another Holocaust.

It is past time for Germany to resist perpetual Israeli blackmail. Why is it that only in the case of Germany that guilt can be transferred from generation to genration? Continually providing military support to the criminal zionist regime is morally wrong.

Let Israel pay the market price if they are desperate for ships. Why should Germany pay the cost when the US could do it just as easily.

I am not really surprised that Israel makes outlandish demands like that. No one else has chutzpah like that. They will keep t whining and complaining til the end of time. Germany really needs to get a spine and say NO - loud and clear! Enough is enough. I don't know how much of a guilt trip has been laid on the newer generations but it must be considerable if this stuff is taken seriously. However, I have an idea that the banks, the educational system and the courts are pretty much controlled by you-know-who, which would make any opposition to their demands almost impossible, from what we've all seen in the past. How do young Germans feel about being continuously drained of their wealth? And, Petenick, move to Israel if you're not already there.

Why should the old Nazi's arm the new Nazi's. Maybe they should ask Germany to come and build concentration camps and death chambers for the Palestinians to be sent to. No country should send arms to Israel, especially Germany or the United States.