Note: The possibility of deploying North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in the Middle East, as they did in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan, has emerged. #msg-6507932
As the United States controls NATO – This would be the same as putting U.S. troops in Palestine and Israel.
-Am
Israeli officials 'disappointed' by timing.
posted June 3, 2005, updated 11:50 a.m.
By Tom Regan / csmonitor.com
In a move little noticed by Western media, on Tuesday the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) granted observer status to the Palestinians at its parliamentary Assembly, held this week in the Slovenian capital city of Ljubljana. GEO World News reports that the NATO assembly's delegates also voted in favor of "granting Palestine the status of participant during the next session of the Parliamentary Assembly in November."
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli officials have reacted "coolly" to the announcement. But at the same time Israel, along with "Algeria, Jordan and Mauritania joined Morocco as Mediterranean Associates of the Assembly."
NATO officials said the decision reflected the widening role NATO parliamentarians are playing in security issues outside the Alliance's traditional area of operation. According to a NATO press release, MK [Member of Knesset - Israel's parliament] Joseph Paritzky welcomed the involvement of the Palestinians and other Arab states in the work of the Assembly, which is made up of 248 delegates from 26 member countries. "This shows that we [Israel] belong to the parliament of the most important and biggest defense union of the world, and the decision is highly appreciated," Paritzky was quoted as saying.
The Post noted that the decision to grant the Palestinians observer status did not catch Jerusalem off-guard, but "questioned whether it was the right time to be handing out carrots to the Palestinians."
"Played at the right time it could have given the Palestinians the encouragement they needed to take steps against terrorist infrastructure which they have yet to take," said one [Israeli] official.
Palestinians hailed the decision.
"This is a very important decision as for many years European countries have only heard the Israeli voice in these groupings. For peace to become a reality and agreements to be fully implemented, we need to be able to tell our side of the story too," said Hassan Khreisheh, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian body and one of the two Palestinian delegates.
The BBC reports on a situation that could provoke tensions between the Israeli army and the Palestinians.
Two Israeli soliders have alleged that they were "ordered to carry out revenge attacks on Palestinian police after six of their comrades were killed." The soldiers made the allegations to the Israeli peace group Breaking the Silence, an organization composed of former Israeli soldiers that gathers evidence on Israeli army abuses.
The Guardian reports that according to one soldier, after the Israeli troops were killed, the unit was called together, and told that six Palestinians needed to be killed to avenge their comrades.
"The idea was simply to kill them all. Whenever they arrived we would kill them, regardless whether armed or not." The soldier went on: "The first firing was ineffective and missed ... We got up and fired, hitting two of theirs. I think we hit one in the shoulder and one in the leg and they escaped. I shot one in the head as he was running while another was crawling behind.
"We got up and started chasing them. It was ... really ... I really enjoyed it. It was the first time we were in an advance storm situation like in our training exercises. And we acted flawlessly. We performed superbly." The wounded policeman escaped into a hut which the soldiers fired at, blowing up a gas cylinder and starting a blaze. According to the witness, none of the Palestinians was armed.
A second soldier told the Guardian a similar story, saying "that he was told to attack three checkpoints in the Nablus area and simply shoot at police. It was clearly a revenge attack, he said."
The Israeli army issued a statement about the allegations. While it did not deny the attacks, it said it targeted Palestinian police who were aiding militants by allowing them through checkpoints to attack Israeli civilians and soldiers. But the two soldiers who made the allegations say, when the attacks occurred, they had no evidence that the 15 policemen killed were involved with the militants.
Finally , Ha'aretz reports that the Israeli government has also evacuated almost all its personnel from its embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, after receiving terrorist warnings. Only Ambassador Ami Mehl, and some security guards, remain at the embassy. Just last month, a security guard killed a suspected suicide bomber as he approached the embassy.
Reference: This would mean that the EU is tied for life to NATO, the instrument through which the US controls the EU's foreign policy. It is perfectly feasible to read the constitution as the EU and the US playing good-cop, bad-cop in the global arena. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GE28Aa01.html
In a very real sense, NATO has become a "joint criminal enterprise," with the goal of imposing by force political objectives of the United States and its European satellites on unwilling nations. #msg-3667075
Of interest: Mossad Chief: U.S. to Be Mired in Middle East in Perpetuity
High-ranking U.S. policymakers have “raised the idea of establishing an American trusteeship regime in the areas of the Palestinian Authority, if it should turn out that the Palestinians are not ripe for self-rule. That arrangement would require an American operational military presence along Israel’s border with the Palestinian territories.”
Might have something to do with the following. As the United States controls NATO – this would be the same as putting U.S. troops in Palestine and Israel.
The possibility of deploying North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in the Middle East, as they did in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan, has emerged. #msg-6591662 #msg-6507932
Israel is against the NATO presence. By now Israel might secretly be hoping for China to hurry and eclipse the U.S.
-Am
Mossad Chief: U.S. to Be Mired in Middle East in Perpetuity
by William Norman Grigg June 10, 2005
According to Ephraim Halevy, former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service and current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East lasting decades.
“The U.S. campaign in Iraq was perceived [in the Middle East and Washington] as a signal of long-term American commitment to do whatever is required and to ‘stay in the neighborhood’ for as long as needed,” commented Halevy in a lengthy op-ed column carried by the April 24 issue of Ha’aretz. High-ranking U.S. policymakers have “raised the idea of establishing an American trusteeship regime in the areas of the Palestinian Authority, if it should turn out that the Palestinians are not ripe for self-rule. That arrangement would require an American operational military presence along Israel’s border with the Palestinian territories.”
“Speaking in a semi-closed forum during a visit to Israel a few months ago,” continued Halevy, “Bill Kristol, one of the most influential ‘neocons’ [neoconservatives] in the United States, noted in this connection that the American presence in Europe after World War II lasted for nearly 60 years. Israelis who are trying to promote a role for NATO in the region, in one form or another, are actually promoting a generation-long American presence.”
U.S. entanglement in the Middle East in the name of “democracy” has further destabilized the region and made violent fundamentalist revolution more likely, especially in Saudi Arabia. “In [an early April] visit to the United States,” comments Halevy, “I was told by several well-informed observers that should one of the more severe scenarios come to pass, the United States will have no choice but to deepen its presence in the Middle East. To that end, it will have to renew the draft, to ensure that there are enough forces to deal with developing situations in countries like Saudi Arabia.”
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