Israel should be invited to join NATO

Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/3/24 | Dr. Hans-Georg Maassen

[Eleutheria5]

They massacred a Roman legion three Roman legions in one.”

Wow. Bar Kochba didn’t score that high.

He got one by the Dead Sea planes, and one by the Med as they were disembarking.

[MeanWestTexan]

Aside from the obvious issue of Turkey, most European countries quietly hate news and wish Israel the worst.

Israel, at least on Earth, is stuck with the USA, and probably India and Japan.

India is a natural ally. Same bad neighbors.

[Eleutheria5]

“India is a natural ally. Same bad neighbors.”

Same holds for Greece, South Sudan and Armenia, and possibly Greater Kurdistan, Balluchis and Ahwazis in Iran. They are Muslims, but they are also dissidents.

[Salman]

NATO after 1992 == suicide cult.

Burn the world to the ground and rule the ashes.

Make Israelis fight in the parts of Europe many of their 20th century ancestors fled from? Why would they want that?

[rottweiller_inc]

well they seem to be doing fine at extinguishing Hamas, which was long over due.

[Wuli]

I can see why not, but then again if Israel does not belong in NATO Turkey certainly does not belong in NATO.

[Eleutheria5]

Turkey’s not fit for NATO, but NATO’s not fit for Israel. What Israel needs is a regional alliance of eastern minorities, such as eastern Christians like Copts and Syrian Christians, Muslim offshoots like Suffis and Alawites, oppressed ethnic groups such as Ahwazis, Kurds and Balluchis, and of course the sub-continent of India. I call it EMA (Eastern Minorities Alliance). Truly an idea that I ought to formulate and send to the Trump campaign.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Notwithstanding that this would make the "North Atlantic" part of NATO more superfluous than ever, I question your logic; some could make the argument that the Greeks and the Romans had a greater influence on Western Civilization than Israel did, especially seeing as how it ceased to exist as a political entity in 70 A.D. (After all, the various European countries made a humongous deal out of being the successor to the Roman Empire; the successor to Israel? Not so much, unless you were the Catholic Church, which always styled itself as the successor to Israel.)

And if you're referring to Jesus Christ specifically, citing Israel makes even less sense, seeing as how the current nation-state of Israel (not to be confused with the Biblical Kingdom of Israel), and the religion of Judaism in particular, don't recognize Jesus as the prophesied Messiah.

[Alberta's Child]

When I first saw this headline on FR, I thought the idea was so ludicrous that I didn’t even bother reading the article. LOL.

Any notion of Israel as “the root of the west” should have gone out the window when they held the first “gay pride” parade in Jerusalem.