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) terrorist campaign. 43 In addition, Kosygin visited Cairo in May (10–19), where he said that a certain country possessed nuclear arms and declared his support for the Palestinian people’s struggle for their rights. 44 The principal Soviet concern was the United States’ intention to deploy nuclear weapons in German territory, which the Soviet Union connected with ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s visit
Soviet claim that it was sending the Arabs the message that Israel was a fait accompli they had to take into account and that they should stop talking about destroying it because the Soviets would not permit it. Israel, therefore, rejected the Soviet demand for cooperation, especially regarding West Germany, which was a true friend to Israel. Ben-Gurion met with Konrad Adenauer, postwar chancellor of
institutionalised through the Versailles Treaty (Frevert 2005 ). One of the architects of post-Second World War Franco-German peace, Konrad Adenauer, had argued, in the wake of the First World War, that the relationship between France and Germany was a pillar to European unity. In a speech to the National Assembly on 1 February 1919 and later at the University of Cologne (12 June 1919), Adenauer discussed the reconciliation issue as a