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FFS-quoting anything Rush Limbaugh says wont strengthen you argument guy de savoy.The man's a freakin moron.
Bumpa sticker-what weapons do the Palestinians have ?-a few ak47 smuggled into gaza in the tunnels under the egyptian border against state of the art $30 million dollar a pop helicopter gunships?Not exactly a fair fight is it?
So tell me-what weapons do the Palestinians have?
The killing of nine activists occurred on a Turkish-flagged ship, the Mavi Marmara,
Turkey is a NATO member with the same right to claim collective defense as the United States did after the 9/11 attacks.
In this guest essay, former British Ambassador Craig Murray, a Law of the Sea expert, recounts what he€™s hearing from other diplomats at NATO headquarters:
For the skimmers and the reading challenged
It's an INSIDE LOOK at what's being stated at diplomats at NATO headquarters:.
How many of this lists skimmers and the reading challenged are working at Nato Headquaters (don't out yourselves) and know ANYTHING about Law of the Sea?
attack by Israel on a NATO member flagged ship in international waters is an event to which NATO is obliged - legally obliged, as a matter of treaty - to react.
NATO is obliged to do something robust to defend Turkey.
Mutual military support of each other is the entire raison d'etre of NATO.
to the NATO military the freedom of the high seas guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is a vital alliance interest which officers have been conditioned to uphold their whole career.
President Barack Obama has now made a point of phoning President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to condole.
Even the Eastern Europeans have not been backing the U.S. line on the Israeli attack. The atmosphere in NATO on the issue has been very much the U.S. against the rest, with the U.S. 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."
I leave the last word to one of the senior NATO officers - who incidentally is not British:
"Nobody but the Americans doubts the U.S. position on the Gaza attack is wrong and insensitive. 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."
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