(Bloomberg) Arne Delfs and Patrick Donahue - Chancellor Angela Merkel defended Germany's sale of weapons to Israel, saying her country has a responsibility to help protect the Jewish state given that 6 million Jews died under the Nazi regime in World War II. "We sell weapons to Israel because we believe that Israel must defend itself and is often attacked," Merkel said Tuesday in Berlin. "We also believe that Germany has a special obligation to support Israel."
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