Selasa, 03 April 2018

Heist in Cherbourg

How Israel’s cool-hand naval commandos stole five missile boats from a French shipyard—on Christmas Eve. When France imposed an arms embargo on Israel on the eve of the June 1967 Six-Day War, it marked an end to the Franco-Israeli romance that had begun the prior decade. France had been Israel’s primary source of arms since …

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