The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the World on Sunday (Welt am Sonntag) claims that Israel freed funds collected for Palestine as a concession to complete the purchase of a German submarine.
The newspaper report claims that aides of the chancellor informed opposition leaders in confidence that Israel had made the concession. The submarine sale was approved last Wednesday. On the same day the Israeli prime minister announced that 100 million dollars in revenues collected for the Palestinians had been released to the Palestinian Authority.
Israel punished Palestine for joining UNESCO by freezing the funds. The submarine sale has been held up for a year as Germany tried to extract political concessions from Israel.Chancellor Merkel has tried to get Netanyahu to restart the Palestinian peace process. Obviously she was unable to do that! For more see this article
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