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- In 2015 Greece signed a military cooperation agreement with Israel allowing each country to host the other's troops and materiel.
- The closer the two countries become militarily, the harder it is for Athens to separate its relationship with Israel from public anger over Israel’s war on Gaza.
- Israeli fighter jets began using Greek airspace for training.
- 65 percent of Greeks opposed the partnership with Israel according to a 2026 Pew Research poll.
- Israel has authorised the sale of spyware such as Predator and Pegasus to Greece and Morocco, and possibly to Cyprus.
- Pro‑Palestinian protests in Greece are vastly larger than pro‑Israeli protests.
- An Israeli C4I control centre will combine inputs from Israeli‑purchased ELM‑2084 radars and Greek fighter jets to track enemy drones in real time.
- In August Athens bought €1.5 million worth of armoured vehicles from Israeli manufacturer Shladot.
- Under its 2030 project Greece plans to spend nearly €28 billion on military modernisation by 2036, taking defence spending to 3.5 percent of GDP.
- In April Greece agreed to spend €650 million on rocket artillery launchers, precision‑guided missiles and a 10‑year support package from Elbit Systems.
- Greece is developing an AI‑powered Command and Control network that will feed data into the Achilles Shield system.
- Greece and India voted against the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947.
- Discovery of gas fields around 2010 turned Greece from an energy‑poor country into an energy exporter.
- Defence spending in Greece rose from $5.5 billion in 2019 to more than $8 billion a year.
- Israel completed a hat‑trick of major Mediterranean air‑defence sales in July when Greece agreed to a €3bn deal involving many of the same systems sold to Morocco and Cyprus in 2022.
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Origin: first recognised while reading Greece's alliance with Israel is becoming a domestic liability · 2026-09-06 19:56