Conditional Membership
Again, I think this is ridiculous.
NATO is a military alliance that served as the foil to the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. Boiled down, it says that if one member nation is attacked, the rest will provide military support to repel the attackers. NATO is composed of America, America, America, America, America, and a handful of other nations, none of whom (except the Brits) have much military power to speak of. Later on I'll try to post an example.
This is all basically to say that Israel, under constant attack by terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, sponsored by countries like Syria, Lebanon, and Iran; these groups were sponsored by Iraq until we eliminated Saddam Hussein. If Israel were allowed to join NATO, various European nations would be required to offer assistance against the "Palestinian" terrorist groups and their terrorist state sponsors, and that would aggravate tensions between European nations and their growing radical Islamic populations.
I can sympathize with European countries; they don't want another Madrid. They don't want to be the scene of the next 9/11. This statement, however, implies that the violence in the Middle East is Israel's fault. It's not.
If anyone from the IDF is reading this, take my advice: skip NATO.
HERZLIYA, Israel (AFP) -- Israel will not be allowed to join NATO until there is a viable Middle East peace settlement, Britain's envoy to the military alliance said Wednesday.
"I am sure that the issue of membership of NATO for Israel could only come about in the context of a wider settlement of the Israel-Palestine issue," Peter Ricketts, Britain's permanent representative to NATO, told a security conference near Tel Aviv.
NATO is a military alliance that served as the foil to the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. Boiled down, it says that if one member nation is attacked, the rest will provide military support to repel the attackers. NATO is composed of America, America, America, America, America, and a handful of other nations, none of whom (except the Brits) have much military power to speak of. Later on I'll try to post an example.
This is all basically to say that Israel, under constant attack by terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, sponsored by countries like Syria, Lebanon, and Iran; these groups were sponsored by Iraq until we eliminated Saddam Hussein. If Israel were allowed to join NATO, various European nations would be required to offer assistance against the "Palestinian" terrorist groups and their terrorist state sponsors, and that would aggravate tensions between European nations and their growing radical Islamic populations.
I can sympathize with European countries; they don't want another Madrid. They don't want to be the scene of the next 9/11. This statement, however, implies that the violence in the Middle East is Israel's fault. It's not.
If anyone from the IDF is reading this, take my advice: skip NATO.
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