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"In December 1957, Strauss met with a small Israeli delegation... The most prominent member of the Israeli group was... Shimon Peres"

"Ben-Gurion had entrusted Peres with a highly sensitive project: Operation Samson"

"total of 630 million deutsche marks that Germany gave the Israelis in the period until 1965"

"The payments were processed by the Frankfurt-based Kreditanstalt fiir Wiederaufbau"

"Thyssen-Krupp, which bought HDW in 2005"

"It was in 1988, when Defense Ministry State Secretary Lother Ruhl, during a visit to Israel, asked then Deputy Chief of General Staff Ehud Barak"

"Prime Minister Golda Meir... ordered her Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to prepare several nuclear bombs for combat"

"classified document from Finance Ministry State Secretary Karl Diller to the Bundestag budget committee dated Aug. 29, 2006"

"Ami Ayalon... who would later become head of the Israeli domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet"

"On a winter's day in 1994... On board were the then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin... the chancellor's residence, where Kohl was waiting"

"In August 2009, Netanyahu... came to Berlin. Netanyahu explained to Merkel how important the submarines were"

"Netanyahu's security advisor Uzi Arad"

"Yoram Ben-Zeev, Israel's ambassador to Germany"

"Jaakov Amidror, Netanyahu's new security adviser"

"IKL agreed with the German Defense Ministry that the drawings would be completed on the letterhead of a British shipyard"

"the German government agreed to supply Israel with armaments... This included the complete financing of two submarines with 880 million deutsche marks"

"the contract for the third submarine, the Tekumah, was signed. The German share of the costs totaled 220 million deutsche marks"

"At around midnight, Schmidbauer took Rabin back to airport"

"Germany made further concessions, agreeing to pay €135 million ($170 million), a third of the submarine's cost"

"Arad called the Chancellery and fired off a volley of angry complaints at Heusgen"

"his cell phone rang. It was Jaakov Amidror... 'You need to get on the next flight to Berlin.'"

"Strauss dictated after a meeting in Paris with Peres and Ben-Gurion, in which he wrote: "Ben-Gurion spoke about the production of nuclear weapons.""

"former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan visited Bonn in the fall of 1977, he told then Chancellor Helmut Schmidt"

"Hans Riihle, the head of the planning staff at the German Defense Ministry in the late 1980s"

"Lothar Ruhl, a former state secretary in the Defense Ministry"

"Wolfgang Ruppelt, the director of arms procurement at the Defense Ministry"

"The pride of the Israeli navy is rocking gently... Welcome on board the Tekumah"

"the German Finance Ministry had to report the funds for the financing of submarines 4 and 5 in 2006"

"argues Stiitzle, who is now at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)"

"Hanan Alon... brought to Kohl... 'It would be unpleasant if it came out, through the media, that Germany helped Iraq to make poison gas...'"

"The two leaders agreed that German diplomat Christoph Heusgen and Netanyahu's security advisor Uzi Arad would work out the details"

"This was all built in Germany, according to Israeli specifications... and so were the weapons systems"

"The navy officer... leads the visitors past a pair of bunks... Research SPIEGEL has conducted"

""Everything seems to suggest that the Israeli bomb was financed also with German money," says Avner Cohen"

"the former chancellor told Jewish American historian Fritz Stern"

"His regime sponsors Hezbollah and Hamas"

"His regime sponsors Hezbollah and Hamas"

"And it has close links to the Iranian regime"

"through Hezbollah, which is sustained and trained by Iran via Syria"

"make it more difficult for Syria's principal supporters, Russia and Iran, to provide arms to the regime"

"make it more difficult for Syria's principal supporters, Russia and Iran, to provide arms to the regime"

"Max Boot is a contributing editor to Opinion, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations"

"James P Rubin was assistant secretary of state during the Bill Clinton administration"

"The military remains intact, loyal, and murderous... Russia, Iran, and China remain supportive"

"Russia, Iran, and China remain supportive"

"Russia, Iran, and China remain supportive"

"detach Bashar al-Assad from his ties to Iran"

"cataclysms Osama bin Laden and the like called for"