@ Skybird : I agree 100% with your assessment.
I have only a little critic to make, its not only the muslim world that has to gain from Israel's entry into the European Community but also the US.
Never forget the US. It is they that have for decades pushed for Turkey's entry in the EU, and now they are trying to push Israel in as well. And for what ? Their strategic vision is different from ours. They see the EU not as a homogeneous political and economical entity with its specific borders dicated by history, but as loosely knit of countries that support NATO. Americans don't care and never have about the political european process. What they care is having a set of countries into NATO to act as a stop gap against russia, against a future middle east danger etc....
It doesn't matter if the identity of europe is compromised, Turkey, Israel, who knows maybe even some north african countries in the future.
Nato is a danger to europe, it should have been dismantled the moment the cold war ended. Unfortunately we still have it, and its the service door through which american influence still manages to harm us. Of course our own politicians don't help in the process.
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