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イスラエルはNATOのセキュリティを支援する準備が出来ているとさ。
新しいイラク国軍をイスラエルが訓練するんだとさ。
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Jerusalem Post
Jun. 27, 2004 19:30
Source: Israel ready to help in NATO security
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
Israel is ready to participate in NATO security and counter-terrorism missions on a limited and short-term basis, according to a senior IDF officer.
The IDF is also offering to help NATO with missile defense based on the Arrow system technology as well as sharing its experience with erecting formidable security fences and border barriers, the senior officer said.
"NATO understands that we are an address for counter terrorism and we want to boost our profile in the war against terror," said the officer who could not be named but was intimately involved in the matter.
In particular, the IDF is offering to dispatch to NATO experts on counter-terrorism as well as bomb disposal units. According to the senior IDF officer, NATO is open to the idea of Israeli participation on a professional basis.
The cooperation could be part of NATO's decision to train Iraq's new army since it would not likely be in Iraq and most probably in Germany.
"We won't be able to say no to serious requests," the senior IDF officer told The Jerusalem Post. "Beating (Palestinian) terror here is not enough for us. We have to contribute to the world fight against terror."
When the heads of the enormously expanded NATO countries gather in Istanbul Monday they may be setting their sights on us.
Not us in particular, but Israel as part of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin.
With 26 nations now members of the North American Treaty Organization, the Istanbul summit marks the first time leaders of the expanded alliance have meet since seven new members - Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - were formally added in March.
Some believe their future is south, to the Mediterranean basin nations made up of
Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. Last week, NATO head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said he wants the summit build up defense cooperation with Middle Eastern and North African countries.
"In Istanbul, I am confident that we will also open up, for the first time, a security dialogue with the broader region of the Middle East," said de Hoop Scheffer on the eve of the summit. "This dialogue must be, and will be, a two-way street."
While some lip service has been given to the idea of expanding the alliance's decade-old "Mediterranean dialogue" program, few believe it to seriously move forward.
First of all, Arab countries have reacted coolly to Western initiatives to build closer ties based on promoting reform in their nations. Second of all, Israel would be hesitant to be tied down by formal military alliances with an organization of 25 European nations.
Still neither Israel nor any of the seven other Mediterranean basin member countries were invited to attend the summit; not even on an observer status.
Last month, Gen. Harald Kujat, chairman of NATO's military committee and its top military officer, paid a quiet visit to Israel. Top IDF brass briefed him and he was taken to the security fence being erected in the West Bank. Upon seeing it, Kujat exclaimed: "It should have been done long ago," a senior IDF officer quoted him as saying.
Still, at least one senior official in the Defense Ministry is skeptical of NATO's interest in Israel. The official dismissed Kujat's visit as a "punching the ticket so he could go to Istanbul and say he was here."
"NATO is floundering and doesn't know what to do with itself," the senior defense official said.
The sentiment he represents in the defense establishment is one that believes NATO has played out its role by expanding beyond effectiveness. Europe has taken a collective decision to ignore Islamic terrorism with the hopes that it will leave them alone and it seems the only thing they'll be able to agree upon is how to put that Jewish country in its place.
"We have to beware of NATO because I see it one day being directed toward us," said the senior defense official.
However this sentiment is not popular in the IDF or the Foreign Ministry or most strategic think tanks.
"NATO, in contrast to other international organizations, has the Americans playing a leading role so we get a fair hearing there," said Efraim Inbar, head of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University.
He warned that as NATO expands its role Israel should be cautious not to have them put into situations counter-productive to Israel's interests, such as deployed in the Gaza Strip.
"This would not be a good idea," Inbar said.
According to Inbar, Israel sought membership in NATO in the 1950s but was rejected. Full membership today is not on the agenda.
"Israel doesn't want to be a member. No one is going to fight for us. We don't expect it. But it is beneficial to have close links for such an important organization and make them aware of our concerns."
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