Israel and NATO

[Cubby]

Option 1

The security of Israel should always be a top concern to the U.S.

If NATO is to continue to exist it needs new goals and ideas, so protecting Israel and Europe are good starts.

[Cubby]

Absolutely NO. An Israely membership of NATO would make it impossible for EU and USA to participate in negociations as neutral parties. Israel has plenty of nucleur weponry to wipe out Iran in case of an Iranian attact and aggressive Israely actions in the occupied territories would put NATO in a quite unfortunate situation.

And a side note: Why should Israel recieve special treatment? 

Because it and Turkey are the only Democracies in the Middle East.

Because it has a right to exist, which Iran is directly threatening

Because Europe has a historical obligation to protect Israel from harm

[Cubby]

The only reason isreal has problems is that they didn't do the merciful thing and immediantly boot out the palestinians in one fell swoop instead of let them remain on the land and slowly disposess them. The heartbreak woudl have been less over the long runsince there wouldn't be any palestinians in Isreal's borders so less long term hatred.

Go ahead, boot them out of their homes. I would actually like to see that. Seriously. Let's see the world reaction when 1.5 million refugees are robbed of their land so the Israelis can get their lebenstraum. What a field day that would be!!

"robbed of their land"? Don't talk like Hamas. I don't care if its true, it still sounds like their rhetoric

And Straha is right, if we could go back in time it would have been better for all the Palestinians (about 600,000 in 1948 not 1.5 Million) to have been moved into their own state, instead of staying in Israel. There will never be the right of return, so they are foolish to stay. What kind of morons stay in refugee camps for 55 YEARS! Normal people would have founded a country and moved on with their lives, but Palestinians love playing the victim card.