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[Niqnaq] rozoff reviews the developing israel-NATO relationship « Niqnaq: The very fact we’re members of such an organization gives a sort of guarantee.” By the end of 2006, Israel-NATO military integration had proceeded to the stage that the Jewish state was granted a partnership agreement with the Western military bloc more advanced than any accorded any other nation outside of Europe, the nation’s foreign minister publicly called for her country’s inclusion in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program, which has recently successfully groomed twelve other states for full membership in the bloc, calls were being made in the West and Israel alike for the latter’s full membership in NATO, and extending Article 5 protection to Israel was being advocated, with the inescapable implication that a coalition of most of the world’s most powerful military nations, led by the self-designated world’s sole military superpower, would retaliate against Iran if it responded to an Israeli first strike attack. As the US stations hundreds of nuclear warheads at NATO bases in Europe, including in Iran’s neighbor Turkey, invoking NATO’s war clause could provoke a nuclear conflagration.

[Stop NATO] Israel: Global NATO's 29th Member « Stop NATO: Incidentally, Friedman’s call for NATO to subjugate Palestine was echoed in differing degrees by James Jones when he was U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Security and by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft in 2008. The Jerusalem Post wrote early in that year about Jones, previously supreme commander of NATO and now the Obama administration’s National Security Adviser, that “The United States is reviewing the feasibility of deploying a NATO force in the West Bank as a way to ease IDF security concerns….The plan, which is being spearheaded by US Special Envoy to the region Gen.

[Dandelion Salad] Israel: Global NATO's 29th Member by Rick Rozoff « Dandelion Salad: In May eight NATO warships docked in the Israeli port city of Haifa “which the military said was an indication of strengthening ties between Israel and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation” preparatory to the Israeli Navy “tak[ing] part for the first time in a NATO naval exercise in the Black Sea in June”¦.” [27] That month the Israeli navy missile ship Achi Eilat left Haifa with its NATO counterparts to join in Operation Mako, “a ten-country joint training exercise in the Black Sea led by NATO-Mediterranean Dialogue countries.” The war games also included ships from “Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Albania, Algeria, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates and others.” The event marked “the first time that an operational unit of the IDF will fully participate with NATO in a military-like operation.” [28] (By way of follow up, on January 11, 2010 Focus News Agency in Bulgaria revealed that the Israeli Air Force plans to use bases in that country for training exercises.)

[ExcitingAds! AME Info Latest News] World Future Energy Summit set to kick off with 98 government ...: Over 600 exhibitors from 50 countries will be exhibiting at the World Future Energy and Environment Exhibitions on a total space of 40,000sqm offering an unrivalled business and networking opportunities to over 20,000 attendees expected to visit the summit and the exhibition.

[Pipeline Magazine] World Future Energy Summit comes to Abu Dhabi « Pipeline Magazine: The World Future Energy Summit, hosted by Masdar, opens on Monday January 17, in a ceremony attended by more than 98 government delegations led by heads of state, royalty, prime ministers,  and ministers. This  global collaborative platform brings together world leaders, international policy makers, industry Influencers, investors, academia, thought leaders and journalists from 130 countries – to identify practical and sustainable solutions to today’s energy security, environment and climate change challenges

[Eurasia Review] Spain's Diminished Policy In The Mediterranean | Eurasia Review: The Spanish presidency wants to breathe new life into the Union for the Mediterranean, put its legal and institutional structure into place, and crown this with the celebration of an EU–Mediterranean summit in Barcelona in June 2010, at which the first approved projects on infrastructure, education and employment will be re-launched. On the bilateral level, the revision of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Action Plans with several Southern partners is due in 2010.

[Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières] [Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières] The global economic crisis: An ...: Promote regional economic co-operation arrangements, such as UNASUR, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the Trade Treaty of the Peoples and others, that encourage genuine development and an end to poverty. Environment .

[FoodProductionDaily RSS] Glass packaging best for the environment: FEVE - the EU association for container glass - declared that glass was the most eco-friendly packing material as it released figures showing that the 25.5 billion containers collected for recycling in 2008 represented “an average recycling rate of 65 per cent for the EU27 countries”. The haul represents almost 11.5 million tonnes of glass collected throughout the body’s European membership - including Turkey, Switzerland and Norway.

[Sulekha: Latest Blogs] Islam Denounces Terrorism : sufi786786 blogs on sulekha, Religion ...: They have adapted their religion and customs, which they brought from Spain some 500 years ago, to the conditions in Turkey, and continue to live most comfortably with their own schools, hospitals, old people's homes, cultural associations and newspapers. In the same way that they have traders and businessmen, they also have representatives in numerous professions, from technical subjects to advertising, with increasingly developing intellectual circles.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Euro-Med Partnership: 50 Million More Muslims Into Europe”¦.Minimum ...: There are certain common aspects to all of them: political dialogue, respect for human rights and democracy, establishment of WTO-compatible free trade over a transitional period of up to 12 years, provisions relating to intellectual property, services, public procurement, competition rules, state aids and monopolies, economic cooperation, cooperation relating to social affairs and migration and cultural cooperation. To come into into force, the Agreements must be ratified by the European Parliament, the Parliaments of the EU member states and the partner country.

[Joels Trumpet] Joels Trumpet » Blog Archive » Iraq, Turkey want to integrate ...: The two-day meeting, which kicked off on Thursday, has been the first ministerial meeting between the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council, a mechanism of joint meetings of the Iraqi and Turkish cabinets, and was jointly led by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu and his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari. DavutoÄŸlu was accompanied by seven executive ministers of the Cabinet, including the ministers of trade, energy, transportation, agriculture and environment, while Zebari was accompanied by nine executive ministers of the Iraqi Cabinet, who are the counterparts of the seven Turkish ministers, as well as three deputy ministers.

[Blog News Service] UPI News - Attack aimed at Pakistan military mosque | Blog News ...: 25 (UPI) -- Iran is clinching deals for trade and technical cooperation with Latin American... Environmental Dirt New Copenhagen Accord a Sham YOLANDI GROENEWALD | COPENHAGEN, DENMARK The new Copenhagen accord, hammered out late on ...

[European Alternatives] European Alternatives Commentary on Commission Hearings | European ...: The commission nomination for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response looks likely to be the first casualty of the parliament hearings: she was unable to respond to allegations of breaking Bulgarian law by carrying on business activities whilst an elected representative. The parliamentary hearing nearly broke down as allegations were circulated amongst the parliamentarians in only German and Bulgarian, leading to protests that the procedure was becoming unfair.

[UK Immigrant Magazine] UK Immigrant Magazine » Blog Archive » Global Development Briefing ...: Cihan Hayirsevener, editor of a regional newspaper in Bandirma in northwest Turkey, was shot by an unidentified gunman on Friday afternoon, in a scene reminiscent of the 2007 killing of Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink, murdered by an ultra-nationalist on an Istanbul street. Hayirsevener had received death threats after writing about the detention of people suspected of corruption in a construction tender.

[Centurean2's Weblog] “A Bridge Too Far” Turkey's Entry into Europe”¦. « Centurean2's Weblog: In Warsaw, the 16 and 17 May 2005, the Council of Europe adopted the following resolution: “We strongly condemn all forms of intolerance and discrimination, in particular those based on sex, race and religion, including anti semitism and islamophobia. We affirm our determination to further develop, within the Council of Europe, rules and effective machinery to prevent and eradicate them….We entrust our colleague, Jean-Claude Juncker, to prepare, in his personal capacity, a report on the relationship between the Council of Europe and the European Union, on the basis of the decisions taken at the Summit and taking into account the importance of the human dimension of European construction”

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » End of Arab Cold War Makes Syria Man in ...: In June 2006, Syria’s tightly-controlled national television showed the aftermath of a gun battle in Damascus between Islamists and state security forces, suggesting that the government””normally secretive on security matters””wanted to cast itself as a victim of Islamism.[30] The Syrian government cited the September 27, 2008 car bombing in Damascus, which killed seventeen people, as an indication that Islamist terrorists””in this case it named Fatah al-Islam””had targeted the country for its cooperation with U.S. efforts to strengthen security along its border with Iraq.[31] Pointing the finger at Fatah al-Islam may also have been meant to deflect suspicion that the Syrian government had supported the group’s activities in Lebanon. A precedent of staged violence, such as the attack on the Danish embassy in Damascus during the Muhammad cartoon crisis, suggests analysts should consider the possibility that other such incidents were also faked.[32] Asad’s stated animosity toward radical Islam and Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups is mirrored in Al- Qaeda’s traditional hatred of the ‘Alawi regime in Syria.

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