re: #416 Ateam

This idea to send NATO “peacekeepers” into the West Bank has been hot in “progressive” academic circles for a few years now, including Obama’s foreign policy adviser, Samantha Powers. The idea is a recipe for disaster and only PhD academics could be stupid enough to support it.

Consider the practical details”

Who in NATO will send the troops?

Turkey and the UK have large enough armies to send some troops, but they both have some “history” in the region which makes their involvement problematic.

France? Get serious.

Germany? Let me put this as delicately as I can: there is no way the Israeli public will accept German troops. Ever.

That leaves the US and a handful of troops from each of the smaller NATO countries. The Pali terrorists already equate the Zionists with US imperialism. So that won’t work either.