Fwd: [Marxism] Israel's Flotilla attack: "NATO HQ in Brussels is today a very unhappy place"

[Cees Binkhorst]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Niet zo vreemd, dat ze vraagtekens zetten bij de gang van zaken.
Die mensen worden geacht na te kunnen denken en zelfstandig meningen te
vormen ;)

Groet / Cees

PS. De boel is wel redelijk verziekt tussen Israel en Turkije. De
Israeliërs hebben een paar keer te veel gedacht dat ze slimmer waren dan
de Turken.

On 06/04/2010 04:50 PM, Antid Oto wrote:
> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
>
> *How will NATO respond to Israel's attack on a member state?*
>
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>
> But what kind of mutual support organisation is NATO when members must
> make decades long commitments, at huge expense and some loss of life, to
> support the Unted States, but cannot make even a gesture to support
> Turkey when Turkey is attacked by a non-member?
>
> Even the Eastern Europeans have not been backing the US line on the
> Israeli attack. The atmosphere in NATO on the issue has been very much
> the US against the rest, with the US attitude inside NATO described to
> me by a senior NATO officer as "amazingly arrogant-- they don't seem to
> think it matters what anybody else thinks".
>
> Therefore what is troubling the hearts and souls of non-Americans in
> NATO HQ is this fundamental question. Is NATO genuinely a mutual defence
> organisation, or is it just an instrument to carry out US foreign
> policy? With its unthinking defence of Israel and military occupation of
> Afghanistan, is US foreign policy really defending Europe, or is it
> making the World less safe by causing Islamic militancy?
>
> I leave the last word to one of the senior NATO officers-- who
> incidentally is not British:
>
> "Nobody but the Americans doubts the US position on the Gaza attack is
> wrong and insensitve. But everyone already quietly thought the same
> about wider American policy. This incident has allowed people to start
> saying that now privately to each other."
>
>
> /• Craig Murray is a former British Ambassador. He is also a former Head
> of the Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He
> negotiated the UK's current maritime boundaries with Ireland, Denmark
> (Faeroes), Belgium and France, and boundaries of the Channel Islands,
> Turks and Caicos and British Virgin Islands. He was alternate Head of
> the UK Delegation to the UN Preparatory Commission on the Law of the
> Sea. He was Head of the FCO Section of the Embargo Surveillance Centre,
> enforcing sanctions on Iraq, and directly responsible for clearance of
> Royal
> Navy boarding operations in the Persian Gulf. Website:
> http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
>
>
> Article URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19513

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