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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.

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• The software is believed to contain a backdoor that could allow Israel diplomatic benefit from intercepted communications.

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• Turkey signed a mutual defence pact on 7 August with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

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• 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.

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• Israeli fighter jets began using Greek airspace for training.

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• 65 percent of Greeks opposed the partnership with Israel according to a 2026 Pew Research poll.

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• Israel has authorised the sale of spyware such as Predator and Pegasus to Greece and Morocco, and possibly to Cyprus.

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• Nearly 100,000 Israelis left their country for more than three months in 2025, marking a third record year.

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• Pro‑Palestinian protests in Greece are vastly larger than pro‑Israeli protests.

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• 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.

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• David Ben Gurion studied in Istanbul and Abba Eban studied Arabic at Cambridge.

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• In August Athens bought €1.5 million worth of armoured vehicles from Israeli manufacturer Shladot.

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• The Abraham Accords in 2020 initiated a series of agreements, most enthusiastically with Morocco and the UAE.

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• 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.

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• In April Greece agreed to spend €650 million on rocket artillery launchers, precision‑guided missiles and a 10‑year support package from Elbit Systems.

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• The €3 billion air‑defence system will be interoperable with NATO’s Link 16 cryptographic communications system.

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• Israel issued a rare warning to its citizens in Greece to avoid advertising their nationality in public.

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• Israel won wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973.

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• Greece is developing an AI‑powered Command and Control network that will feed data into the Achilles Shield system.

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• Greece and India voted against the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947.

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• In 2010 former Greek Prime Minister Yorgos Papandreou met Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow and invited him for dinner, helping pave the way for a closer relationship between the two countries.

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• Discovery of gas fields around 2010 turned Greece from an energy‑poor country into an energy exporter.

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• Defence spending in Greece rose from $5.5 billion in 2019 to more than $8 billion a year.

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• 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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• Greece's alliance with Israel is becoming a domestic liability

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