Report: Israel nixes major arms deal with former Soviet state - Haaretz

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Report: Israel nixes major arms deal with former Soviet state

By Haaretz Service

Israel has dropped a substantial deal to sell weapons to a former Soviet state for fear of harming ties with Russia, Israel Radio reported Thursday.

The radio said that the sale would have yielded Israel a "large amount" of money.

According to the report, senior members of the unnamed country's defense establishment traveled to Israel to meet security chiefs in an effort to advance the sale.

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Former minister Roni Milo, who has business ties in the country, confirmed that the meetings had taken place, the radio said.

The report quoted a senior Israeli source as saying that Israel had in the past tried to stymie major Russian weapons sales to Syria and it was therefore unreasonable to sell weapons to a country experiencing tension with Moscow.

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1.	What relations with Russia?	09:20	\|	David Teich	19/04/07

2.	HAARETZ: Unnamed state,Unnamed source of information,Unnamed deal	09:24	\|	Vittorio	19/04/07

3.	A matter of attitude	09:45	\|	Uri	19/04/07

4.	Russia sells nuclear reactors to Iran and missiles to Syria .....	10:02	\|	Chanan	19/04/07

5.	The difference here	10:05	\|	Jerusalem Shmuel	19/04/07

6.	#1, what is the value of an int`l arrest list?	11:00	\|	Fritz Teich	19/04/07

7.	What relations with Rusia?	11:06	\|	Alain	19/04/07

8.	Fritz says the UN is irrelevant	11:56	\|	David Teich	19/04/07

9.	lmao, really? russia stop arming syria and arabs?	11:57	\|	viper	19/04/07

10.	It is not Russia but USA which bans selling Arms to Ex-soviets	12:39	\|	Tayfun_Turkey	19/04/07

11.	Hot,uninformed heads from #1 to #10	13:15	\|	PARIS	19/04/07

12.	Afraid Of Russia !!	13:24	\|	David Harry Ezekiel	19/04/07

13.	# 10 More likely Georgia	13:31	\|	Lynn	19/04/07

14.	Georgia on my mind	15:23	\|	Benny Wise	19/04/07

15.	#12, david harry, where have you been ?	15:56	\|	VIPER	19/04/07

16.	Israel Nixes	16:14	\|	Eytan Leibovitz	19/04/07

17.	Russian and the Terror Network	16:21	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	19/04/07

18.	major arms deal	16:26	\|	ljf-canada	19/04/07

19.	I`m confused....	16:38	\|	Sherman	19/04/07

20.	Stupidity: Russia helps Iran and Syria	16:40	\|	Semsem	19/04/07

21.	# 1 - I agree - What relations???	16:48	\|	D	19/04/07

22.	#8, not true at all...	16:58	\|	Fritz	19/04/07

23.	where do these "senior Israeli sources" wriggle from?	17:18	\|	nehemia dB	19/04/07

24.	Arms and the man	17:26	\|	Harold	19/04/07

25.	Who`s your daddy?	18:14	\|	Vlad	19/04/07

26.	Israel would lost in this...Israel is smart	18:17	\|	Johnny Cakes	19/04/07

27.	dont sell so dont upset Russia or upset US so where do you sell	18:27	\|	zionist forever	19/04/07

28.	Time for Russia to honor its relations with Israel	18:43	\|	Jake	19/04/07

29.	Russia will never support Israel but other countries could	18:51	\|	zionist forever	19/04/07

30.	Arms, Legs and Body Bags	18:57	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	19/04/07