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2011-09-29 Europe
Israel asks airbase in Cyprus in exchange for air defense
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Posted by Steve White 2011-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Mmmmmkay...assuming this publication's credibility is somewhere above the Debka league, things in that neighborhood are about to get very interesting. And not in a good way.

The Holy Blogfather posted a pertinent note from a reader yesterday. Money quote: It’s like the summer of 1914, but I keep wondering “Where is the Sarajevo? Who will be the Archduke?"
Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-09-29 01:00||   2011-09-29 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually wouldn't be a bad idea and a good move for both countries. Israel gets air defense farther out into the Med and can project power against Turkey and Egypt, and Cyprus gets protection against Turkey.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-09-29 03:32||   2011-09-29 03:32|| Front Page Top

#3 big smile...
Posted by Water Modem 2011-09-29 03:53||   2011-09-29 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4  Cyprus gets protection against Turkey.
Posted by DarthVader

Bonus points: Turkey gets an immediate three-front war, should the decide to start one.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-29 04:47||   2011-09-29 04:47|| Front Page Top

#5 
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Posted by Pheatch Ulick1830 2011-09-29 05:09||   2011-09-29 05:09|| Front Page Top

#6 It's like the summer of 1914, but I keep wondering "Where is the Sarajevo? Who will be the Archduke?"

That caught my attention as well.

FWIIW, I think it will happen in N. Africa.

Algeria has yet to fall to a popular revolution and a free state which hopefully Libya will become with a long border with an authoritarian state isn't a stable configuration.
Posted by phil_b 2011-09-29 05:26||   2011-09-29 05:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Trash on aisle 5
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-29 05:39||   2011-09-29 05:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Congratulations, Pheatch Ulick1830. That is the most incoherent post I've read in absolutely ages! Just a thought -- I don't think anyone ever claimed Cyprus as a Jewish homeland.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-29 05:41||   2011-09-29 05:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Hopefully, if the Turks send their F-16's out play with the IDF, they will splash a few.
Posted by Secret Asian Man (New Delhi) 2011-09-29 06:12||   2011-09-29 06:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Congratulations, Pheatch Ulick1830. That is the most incoherent post I've read in absolutely ages!

Yes, it is rather worth keeping on display. One seldom seens such a combination of stupidity and ignorance, even during this election season.
Posted by lotp 2011-09-29 06:37||   2011-09-29 06:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Pheatch Ulick1830 = Middle Eastern Moby
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-29 07:34||   2011-09-29 07:34|| Front Page Top

#12 
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Posted by Pheatch Ulick1830 2011-09-29 07:41||   2011-09-29 07:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Hey Abdrool, can you say M-O-B-Y? I knew you could because you are smarter than your average inbred forehead banger, but still not smarter than your average bear.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-29 07:52||   2011-09-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Ooookay.  Pheatch Ulick1830, that second try is certainly more coherent, which should bring you comfort. Now try actually reading the articles and comments at the site, to see if your opinion of us is valid. When you do, a simple, "Sorry, I hadn't had my tea yet," will be a good start.

It is odd. Usually it's the Muslims and the Jew-haters who who burst in here like that, not the Jewish lovers of Israel. But, contra the wise old gentleman of Ecclesiastics, there are indeed new things under the sun.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-29 09:20||   2011-09-29 09:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Knight to King 5?
Posted by mojo 2011-09-29 12:05||   2011-09-29 12:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Instead of WWI I see parallels to WW2 in that the world is in a global slump and the Superpower of the time is looking and acting weak. That's a go flag for crazies.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-29 14:53||   2011-09-29 14:53|| Front Page Top

#17 I agree with the WWII comparison: we are facing an increasing aggressive Asian authoritarian power, that is massively dependent on imports for everything for fuel to food, who keeps biting off chunks of its neighbors, sells us all sort of cheap crap goods and buys all sorts of militarily-useful technology and products from us, and is taking advantage of a world-wide economic problem to expand in the Pacific in the face of a weak-kneed socialist American President who is talking about cutting the US military. Almost a duplicate of the positions of Imperial Japan and the US in the 1930s.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-29 20:13||   2011-09-29 20:13|| Front Page Top

#18 It is too bad that the airbase in Cyprus is not set up for F-15s, that would be the better basing choice for air superiority.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-29 20:15||   2011-09-29 20:15|| Front Page Top

#19 I would suspect the eeeeevil Juice already know how to adjust the IFF to current events, Turkish targets allies
Posted by Frank G 2011-09-29 22:38||   2011-09-29 22:38|| Front Page Top

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