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Dutch opposition irate over plan to sell defense system to Israel

By DPA

Opposition parties in The Netherlands responded angrily to a plan to sell an air defense system to Israel in November, announced by deputy defense minister Cees van der Knaap in parliament on Tuesday.

It concerns an outdated system, parts of the HAWK helicopter, which Israel wants to use for maintenance of its own air defense system.

The countries are due to sign a sales contract in November, Van der Knaap said. If the United States gives permission for the arms deal, Israel will receive the parts by 2008.

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The Greens (GL) and Socialist Party (SP), both members of the opposition, claim the sale violates previous Dutch agreements not to sell arms to Israel.

The parties requested foreign affairs minister Maxime Verhagen to clarify the deal.

Verhagen on Tuesday promised parliament to look into the matter.

He stressed however that if a country requires arms for defensive reasons, this might not fall under the terms of earlier agreements not to sell arms.

Attempts by the Greens and the Socialist Party to stop the government from allowing Israel to use Dutch territory to transport arms from the U.S. to Israel, remained unsuccessful.

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1.	If the US of A gives permission? Israel only a puppet on a string	21:11	\|	Aaron	16/10/07

2.	Is this article garbled?	21:14	\|	Mark Lincoln	16/10/07

3.	uuuhhh Dutch arms!	21:17	\|	Me	16/10/07

4.	Wake up	22:11	\|	Jeroen de Jager	16/10/07

5.	what a difference a few years make	22:18	\|	edgar	16/10/07

6.	#1 Aaron	22:20	\|	Janice	16/10/07

7.	# 1	22:26	\|	Axel	16/10/07

8.	For Defense	22:28	\|	Nunie	16/10/07

9.	#3 Dutch army needs money badly due to overseas actions	22:28	\|	Aaron	16/10/07

10.	# 3	22:28	\|	Axel	16/10/07

11.	Stank voor dank	22:28	\|	ron	16/10/07

12.	Dutch Opposition	22:37	\|	Sy Dill	16/10/07

13.	# 8 nunie	22:45	\|	Axel	16/10/07

14.	#1 Not exactly the way you put it	22:47	\|	Chick	16/10/07

15.	Thank god for Germany	22:48	\|	Frank	16/10/07

16.	Janice	22:53	\|	Aaron	16/10/07

17.	Selling arms to the occupiers	23:01	\|	Marteen	16/10/07

18.	Nonsense Aaron	23:04	\|	Henk	16/10/07

19.	#14 Chick - Agreed, I get your point	23:04	\|	Aaron	16/10/07

20.	Edgar	23:08	\|	Brad	16/10/07

21.	Aaron	23:37	\|	Me	16/10/07

22.	offennsive weapons means anything that can defend Israel	01:43	\|	zionist forever	17/10/07

23.	BOYCOTTING ISRAEL IS ANTI SEMITISM REBRANDED	01:45	\|	Van de Bols	17/10/07

24.	Axel#13 - on defensive weapons	01:45	\|	William	17/10/07

25.	#9..Aaron	01:47	\|	Nemesis	17/10/07

26.	the Dutch	01:49	\|	Andrew	17/10/07

27.	Holland needs money	01:51	\|	William	17/10/07

28.	Dutch opposition irate over plan to sell defense system to Israel	01:57	\|	Mark Jaeger	17/10/07

29.	dutch nazis	02:04	\|	ron	17/10/07

30.	brad	03:11	\|	edgar	17/10/07

31.	Oppositions are already infiltrated by mohamedans	03:43	\|	cristo	17/10/07

32.	TRYING to suck up to their vocal(&threatening) Moslem minority	05:10	\|	PETER SM	17/10/07

33.	Nemesis	08:26	\|	Aaron	17/10/07

34.	#21 Me - your comments dont make sense at all to me	08:28	\|	Aaron	17/10/07

35.	Perhaps this `opposition` killed Theo van Gogh	21:45	\|	Solon	17/10/07

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