Israel as NATO Member? http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m75448&hd=&size=1&l=e

Cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, Reagan’s ambassador to Austria who heads the World Jewish Congress, recently demanded that Israel be admitted to membership in NATO. This proposal has been raised over the past decade in academic and in political circles but the rapidly changing situation in the Arab world, and in the Middle East, gives it a sense of urgency for Zionists around the world seeking protection for the "Jewish State". The "Israel as NATO member" concept was promoted at the neoconish Hoover Institution in 2005. Well established at Stanford University, Hoover received special attention in the George W. Bush administration owing to its close links to former Secretary of State George Shultz and to then Secretary of State Condi Rice...