NATO claims that its existence is based on its member countries’ common values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
Practice shows that NATO is far from that. NATO has a blood-soaked history of organising or supporting coups, bloody colonial wars, and military interventions that disrupted the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Today, NATO member states together account for three quarters of the international arms trade and fuel violent conflicts worldwide.
Israel can count on diplomatic and military support from NATO countries for its wars of terror in Gaza and Lebanon. Human rights and democracy only play a role if they can be instrumentalised against competing superpowers or states.
