{"id":3039,"date":"2007-11-01T18:44:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/the-consequences-of-abrogating-self-reliance-and-sovereignty-to-third-party-nations-or-organizations\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T08:30:57","slug":"the-consequences-of-abrogating-self-reliance-and-sovereignty-to-third-party-nations-or-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/the-consequences-of-abrogating-self-reliance-and-sovereignty-to-third-party-nations-or-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consequences of Abrogating Self-Reliance and Sovereignty to Third Party Nations or Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By his endorsing NATO involvement, is Avigdor Leiberman not stepping back into the mistakes of the past, as seen<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_day_war#Suez_Crisis_Aftermath\"><strong>here,<\/strong><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_day_war#Withdrawal_of_the_United_Nations_Emergency_Force\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_day_war#The_Straits_of_Tiran\"><strong>here?<\/strong><\/a>      <strong>MB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/story.php3?id=36628\"><strong>No to NATO Deployment as an Anti-Palestinian Terror Force, by Dr. Aaron Lerner<\/strong><\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/ \">(IMRA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;To the extent that the Palestinians find it difficult to establish an effective security apparatus to end the terror activity, NATO will fill the vacuum created.&#8221; Principles of Permanent Agreement &#8211; Yisrael Beiteinu party Chairman and Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman<\/p>\n<p>Would it really serve Israel&#8217;s interests to inject NATO forces into the equation?<\/p>\n<p>Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman sees the mandate of such a NATO deployment as an anti-Palestinian terror force, but the NATO members aren&#8217;t from Mars. They are nations with their own international (and for that matter domestic) interests and concerns. As such, this force would be careful to avoid the &#8220;Israel&#8217;s Policeman&#8221; label.<\/p>\n<p>Deployment of such a force would be predicated on significant and substantial Israeli concessions that contributing countries could point to in order to justify their participation to the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p>The force would also not tolerate any Israeli security activity in areas under its supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it a tremendous concession to make in a working paper rather than after prolonged negotiations, it ignores the fundamental truth so often ignored in Israeli policy discussions: that once a sovereign Palestinian state is established, its sovereign status is not conditioned on continued compliance with, or the functioning of, the agreement under which it was created.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put: a sovereign Palestinian state can send Mr. Lieberman&#8217;s proposed NATO force packing.<\/p>\n<p>It might be appealing to suggest that someone else bear Israel&#8217;s security burden &#8211; but it won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Raising such phantom solutions only serves to further confuse the policy debate.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Commentary; By his endorsing NATO involvement, is Avigdor Leiberman not stepping back into the mistakes of the past, as seen here, here and here? MB No to NATO Deployment as an Anti-Palestinian Terror Force, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA) Excerpts; &#8220;To the extent that the Palestinians find it difficult to establish an effective security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}