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NATO Considering Peacekeeping Force in Middle East?
(Commentary) Emanuele Ottolenghi - Speaking in Lisbon during NATO's summit, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that the alliance is prepared to consider sending a peacekeeping force to enforce an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. According to Florence Gaub, a scholar at the NATO Defense College in Rome, a NATO force in Palestine would "need forces ranging from 43,700 to 76,000 men." But aside from her assessment that "NATO's mission in Palestine would have slim chances of success and a high probability of failure," what are the chances that NATO countries, that found it hard to contribute an additional few thousand men to Afghanistan, would give 76,000 for Palestine?