Exclusive / Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal

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Exclusive / Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israel's defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal.

According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-130J airplanes. The deal for the three aircrafts, designed by Lockheed Martin, are worth roughly a quarter billion dollars. Each aircraft costs $70 million.

The aircrafts were manufactured specifically for Israeli needs, and include a large number of systems produced by Israel's defense industry.
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The deal will be covered by American foreign assistance funds. The Pentagon will issue a formal announcement on the matter on Thursday evening.

America and Israel have still not reached an agreement regarding the purchase of another Lockheed war plane, the F-35. It is still not clear when that deal, which is estimated to be worth more than $3 billion, will finally be sealed and carried out.

If that deal is signed in the near future, Israel will likely receive its first F-35 in 2014.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159155.html

[Tomas O'Crohan]

Unless and until support for this criminal, genocidal regime is withdrawn, all this huffing and puffing is being done just for mass deception.

[Father Brown]

Unless and until support for this criminal, genocidal regime is withdrawn, all this huffing and puffing is being done just for mass deception.

Exactly. A future headline will read something like this:

"Despite row, US approves Israel's use of tactical nukes on Iran".