Greece agreed to a €3 billion air defense deal with Israel and they won’t get the source code for the command-and-control system. So Greek engineers can’t maintain or upgrade it on their own. they have to rely on Israel.
Greek defense minister Nikos Dendias said in July that becoming a “hostage” to even the friendliest ally is “absolutely impossible.” But that’s exactly what this looks like. Israel’s Missile Defense Organization director Moshe Patel was asked if Greece gets the source code. He said: “No. Because the source code was not included in the license to use the agreement.”
Israel’s defense ministry later said Israeli know-how would go to Greek companies so they can develop a “Greek source code.” But the original answer was no. And the system is still built on Israeli tech.
So Greece is paying €3 billion to a foreign supplier and can’t fully control the thing. That’s not sovereignty. That’s dependency.
And this is a country that’s supposed to be in the EU. Why is it buying weapons from Israel at all? Greece should not be giving money to Israel. I think giving money to Israel right now is wrong. The ICJ is looking at genocide charges. Greece shouldn’t be funding this.
If you’re European, you should ask why your union is okay with this. Why is a member state doing deals like this? Why isn’t anyone stopping it? These money should go to european alternatives.
I dont get it either. Why is nobody stopping the genocide in Palestina? And we just watch and sell them weapons on top.
Yeah me too. I mean the voters succeded in keeping the evil woman out of office and trump said hed be done with the gaza situation in a few days. Wtf?
/s for those of slothy mental proclivities
How do you stop it? Israel has full support of the US, so any sort of sanctions against them will be rather limited. Even then Israel has twice the population of Palestine. So they might just go ahead, go full blast genocide and then just wait until sanctions are lifted, because they stopped the genocide(when everybody is dead).
The alternative is to go to war with Israel. They obviously have nukes, but even if that is somehow not a problem, if you win you have two groups who hate each other and you are responsible for them not fighting. Getting rid of any of them is genocide too and this includes large scale deportation of Jews, I sometime see suggested.
So nobody is going to stop them. We do not even do it in Sudan, which would be much easier.