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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 236443"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DonBilly @ Jan 5 2009, 02:53 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=369648" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Well what do you want me to say? Europe is disunited as a whole because it doesn't have one concurrent cultural connection of cause d'etiere. The Arab world however certainly does, specifically over Israel being there on what it envisions as <em>its</em> turf and general Western policy towards the region period. It tends to galvanise popular support across the Middle East. </p><p></p><p>The splits in the Arab world are far more subtle with a delacate balance between the Sunni Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc and the Shia nations like Iran and so forth. But on the whole Israel and Palestine is <em>the</em> cause which unifies the lot.</p><p></p><p>Europe has none of that and as such, fractures easily which makes such ideas as a Common European Foreign Policy and Defence Policy laughable at best.</p><p></p><p>You can't sugarcoat these things. Eurocrats smothering what are <em>legitimate concerns</em> about Franco-German-Italian appeasement of Russia with "blah blah blah, Euro Sceptics" harms the European Union by marginalising Eastern Europe and basically saying to them "look, we're not going to do anything because Paris, Berlin and Rome have their noses deep within Putin's trough. If you don't like it, go whistle for your EU funding next fiscal year.."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 236443"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DonBilly @ Jan 5 2009, 02:53 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=369648']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Well what do you want me to say? Europe is disunited as a whole because it doesn't have one concurrent cultural connection of cause d'etiere. The Arab world however certainly does, specifically over Israel being there on what it envisions as [i]its[/i] turf and general Western policy towards the region period. It tends to galvanise popular support across the Middle East. The splits in the Arab world are far more subtle with a delacate balance between the Sunni Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc and the Shia nations like Iran and so forth. But on the whole Israel and Palestine is [i]the[/i] cause which unifies the lot. Europe has none of that and as such, fractures easily which makes such ideas as a Common European Foreign Policy and Defence Policy laughable at best. You can't sugarcoat these things. Eurocrats smothering what are [i]legitimate concerns[/i] about Franco-German-Italian appeasement of Russia with "blah blah blah, Euro Sceptics" harms the European Union by marginalising Eastern Europe and basically saying to them "look, we're not going to do anything because Paris, Berlin and Rome have their noses deep within Putin's trough. If you don't like it, go whistle for your EU funding next fiscal year.." [/QUOTE]
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