Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called Dolphin-class submarine, received from Germany "a formidable war machine, the most advanced, complex and most expensive" unit in the Israeli military’s arsenal.
Israel receives new submarine from Germany
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – The Israeli Navy has received its fifth Dolphin-class submarine, built in Germany, local media reported Tuesday.
The newest submarine, which is nuclear-capable according to foreign media reports, was met by the country’s military command and leading politicians, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.
The submarine is "a formidable war machine, the most advanced, complex and most expensive" unit in the Israeli military’s arsenal, Rivlin stated.
"In the decades to come, the INS Rahav will take an active part in defending the country and its maritime territory, by acting deeper, further and longer underwater. Seeing without being seen, keeping a watchful eye, and projecting our operational abilities on the naval front," Israel’s president was quoted as saying by The Times of Israel.
The submarine was constructed by the German Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipbuilding company. The previous vessel of its kind, the Tanin sub, was delivered to Israel in September 2014. Israel and Germany have already signed a contract for a sixth submarine.
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A large number of Europe’s swift and sudden torrent of newcomers are young, single men, jobless and unmoored. The idea that they can be integrated quickly or easily is just a fantasy.
In Cologne, women reported being attacked by groups of men who surrounded, groped and robbed them (more than 500 criminal complaints have been filed so far). The overwhelmed police were unable to stop the attacks. As one internal police report described the scene, “Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a ‘gauntlet’ through masses of heavily intoxicated men that words cannot describe.”
The Cologne police media department initially described the celebration as “peaceful.” As disturbing details began to emerge, police were reluctant to identify the origin of the alleged attackers because of its “politically awkward nature,” as one leading German broadcaster put it. The main German TV station took a pass on the story. Henriette Reker, the pro-refugee mayor of Cologne, said there was no evidence that the assailants were “refugees.”
The walls built to protect the "Jewish State of Israel" from war refugees are subsidized in-part by German taxpayers who've been victims of invasion rape and sexual molestation
Until now, sensitivity to anti-immigrant backlash has prevented honest talk about sexual misconduct among immigrant men; such talk has been condemned as racist in the past. In Norway, for example, there have been reports that immigrants commit a disproportionate number of rapes, but there was pushback. Mainstream politicians and the media have been terrified of inciting xenophobia and fuelling the rise of the right-wing parties.
But what happened in Cologne was too big to cover up. News has now emerged of similar New Year’s Eve assaults in Austria, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden, as well as other German cities. The Viennese police chief has warned women not to go out alone at night. Sweden is now dealing with its own cover-up at a music festival last summer, where young girls were assaulted by hundreds of mostly Afghan men. As the official in charge of the festival’s policing told a local news source, “We sometimes dare not to say how it is because we think it might play into the hands of the [right-wing] Sweden Democrats.”
Under current law, nobody can make the newcomers go home unless they are convicted of extremely serious crimes. And without serious new border controls, nobody can stop more men from coming.
In Norway and other places, authorities have introduced sex-education classes to inform newcomers that sexual assault is not acceptable. You get the sense it’s going to be an uphill climb. “Men have weaknesses and when they see someone smiling it is difficult to control,” one young Eritrean migrant told The New York Times. In his country, he explained, “If someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished,” at least not by the police.
Yet even now, some of Europe’s liberal humanitarians are still in deep denial. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Cologne’s mayor expressed genuine shock that so many immigrant men do not act like German men. What’s needed, Ms. Reker said, is more language and integration courses, to give them a better grasp of German culture (which begs the question of whether they are interested in grasping it). As for how to behave at public festivals, she thinks pictograms might help.
There are other solutions, but they might be more difficult. Refuse asylum to single men (as Canada has done). Deport the ones who’ve already arrived. Choose who comes. Don’t choose people who can’t tell the difference between a kiss and rape.
