The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement (israelnationalnews.com) 145
MarkWhittington writes: According to a story in Arutz Sheva, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Israel Space Agency Director General Menachem Kidron signed an agreement to further future space cooperation between the two countries. The agreement took place at the International Astronautical Conference taking place in Jerusalem. The agreement restores a previous commitment for space cooperation between the two countries that lapsed in 2005. The current agreement will have a far greater scope than the previous one.
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Mel Brooks was right?
(It's not obscure; this is Slashdot)
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AWESOME! (Score:3, Insightful)
Wow! It is great to hear about one country in that part of the world who is interested in rockets WITHOUT explosives attached. Good job, Israel!
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I can't believe that I am replying to an anonymous coward, but you could not be more wrong.
Israel has had nukes for DECADES. How many times have they used one? (hint: the number is an integer between -0.5 and +0.5)
If Iran or Syria had a nuke, how long would they wait to use it? Weeks? Hours?
When has Israel ever used force? Only when provoked.
At least Israel HAS an int
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So expelling Palestinians from lands their then razing their homes to the ground to build Israeli settlements is not a provocation? The Israelis government does many more provoking things but the world just keeps turning a blind eye.
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Your language is a little biased. How about talking in terms of populations shifting in locations over time. The neighborhood my parents grew up in went from German to Irish to Jewish to Black to Puerto Rican to Mexican over the course of the last 150 years. During that time buildings were torn down and put up. We didn't call it "Mexicans razing Black and Puerto Rican homes to build Mexican settlements". Neighborhoods change ethnic composition. Within Israel areas have gone from Ashkenazi to Mizrahi an
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There is a difference if a Person BUYS a house and razes it down to build a new one versus Israeli moving with bulldozers into Palestinian settlements and destroying them.
In Israel there shouldn't be any Palestinian homes. While different ethnicities of Israelis live in those homes, all homes in Israel should all be Israeli.
Half of Israel is conquered by Israelians ... and does not really belong to that country ... expulsion/eviction of war victims is forbidden by international law.
I hope your statement above was a lame joke.
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Well first off in Israel individuals can't own land they can only lease it from a few agencies. Those agencies, or their Yishuv forbearers, have a long history of buying land going back to the late 19th century.
As for "conquered" everything on the planet has been conquered at some point. Stuff gets conquered and the people living their form new societies. Pretty clearly the people who live in Israel proper, Jerusalem and Area-C want to be under the rule of the Israeli government. International law allow
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Israel has lands occupied, which don't belong tomits territory, Siani, West Jordan Land, the Golan hills.
There they destroy houses of Palestinians and sometimes support Israelian settlers, that is what I'm talking about.
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I addressed that above, the people living in those territories view Israel as their sovereign. The Golan is either Druze or Israeli the population is enthusiastic about Israeli rule. Area-C west of the Jordan, where the Israelis live is several hundred thousands Israelis and about 60k Palestinians. The Sinai is in Egypt, no Israelis live there.
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Does not change the fact that Israelis "invaded" those areas regularly, destroyed towns with bulldozers and settled Israeli "Settlers" there.
The topic was about: destroying sttlements and displacing the inhabitants. Isreal did that the last 40 years regularly.
And I doubt that
I addressed that above, the people living in those territories view Israel as their sovereign. What wet dream is that? Like east Germany accepted the USSR as their sovereign?
The Sinai is in Egypt, no Israelis live there.
So you are like
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Obligatory. If you go back far enough the land always belonged to someone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Damn, you got some old parents. How are they doing now?
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When has Israel ever used force? Only when provoked.
LOL. Doesn't take much to 'provoke' them does it.
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How many times have they used one?
Israel, we are so proud of you: in your efforts to wipe out your fellow Semites (let's ignore for now the fact that most Jews aren't actually even Semitic), you've been remarkably restrained in not breaking out the nukes that you developed (well, with the help of pro-apartheid South Africa and very likely the CIA). I can't even imagine how you weren't tempted to use these in Palestine; rolling over unarmed civilians in armored bulldozers must have seemed so anti-climactic compared to the kind of fun you cou
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But that's not all the only place they build, is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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There is no difference in Muzzies, who have since 700AD overrun large parts of Asia and Africa versus Christians overrunning the Americas, Asia and uh oh, Europe.
Or have you forgotten that _all_ of the Europeans where _non christians_ before roughly 400AD?
I for my part hate it to be sourrounded by all those Christians who have forgotten the prime doctrins of their religion.
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"Muzzies"? Really? Are you 11 years old? The rest of your post contained absolutely nothing of any use to anyone - just a rambling about something which has absolutely no bearing on the subject at hand, drenched in xenophobia and reeking of abject, comfortable ignorance.
Clearly you'd not want Jewish settlements if you just happened to be born where Israel wants to build a settlement, as you'd be absolutely fucked. But as that doesn't fit into your wonderfully childish worldview, I'm sure you'll ignore t
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Yes, according to an institution where the world's most corrupt leaders vastly outnumber the West, where mass-murderers head the "Human Rights" council and where Israel is held up to vastly higher standards than the rest.
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OK, if you don't believe the UN, let's ask some Jews:
http://livefromoccupiedpalesti... [blogspot.com]
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/2... [salon.com]
http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Z... [nkusa.org]
Now please do your best to make ad hominem attacks on those voices, since you don't have any substantive argument to make.
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Do you always go along with the majority opinion?
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I live in the Northern part of the US, so I don't really encounter a lot of the fundamentalists. They're only a small percentage of Christians, anyway.
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ISIS and Hamas are enemies.
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You can easily be that ignorant. Truth is the Israelis live on stolen land, and are vicious thieves. Fuck you and you shilling for them.
The truth hurts them, so they pay cunt shills like you to pretend they have support. Mindless fucking worm.
A Potentially Valuable Agreement (Score:1)
Interestingly, Israel is the smallest country in the world with an indigenous space launch capability. It also seems to have a significant and complex space research program and infrastructure dating back to the 1960s, and specializing in nano and micro satellites. It has signed agreements with the space agencies of France (CNES), Canada (CSA), India (ISRO), Germany (DLR), Ukraine (NSAU), Russia (RKA), Netherlands (NIVR) and Brazil (AEB), so it's not a surprise they are signing an agreement with NASA.
Will Israel pay their part with... (Score:2)
Hmmm, first mention of "Palestine" ... (Score:2)
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<you know the tone I'm using here>My son, the astronaut. He never calls. He never writes. Something about delays, transmission delays maybe, i don't know, but never calls, doesn't write eithuh, no never, and what am I, chopped liveh? He couldn't stay on earth, and take care of his mother, like a good boy, no, he had to go gallavanting all over like a big shot, while I sit here, no one to take care of me... Not like my husband, Mortimer. Mortimer! MORTIMER! BRING ME MY TEA!<end tone>
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Sadly, no. :( Although I like Trevor Noah well enough to keep watching, I thought -- still think -- Stewart was about as good as you can get at the job he created. Not that I agreed with everything he said, or thought all the takes they took on various issues were correct, but damn he could make me laugh. Credit to the show's writers as well, of course, but Stewart's delivery is what made it work. What a sly way he had about him as a comic. Gave great face, as it were.
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You sound verklempt, bubbeleh. Unless you're just hakn a tshaynik.
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So, it is better to rely on Russia for all of our space needs? Name one other proven way to get living human beings to the ISS.
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I don't know. Is it any worse than the scum who try to kill them every day?
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Did no one ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? If every country was contented to just not be the worst, what would that do to the world?
Grow up. The future begs you.
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Hmmm. Would you rather be a Muslim in Israel, or a Jew in pretty much any Muslim country? Please explain which you would choose, why, and what your expected life span would be.
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What you are describing as your goal is a one world government. In that sort of scenario citizenship in a particular country isn't particularly important, people don't have much loyalty to their country and people and goods travel fairly freely through the world. That's what you have with empire not a world of nation states. An empire is constructed in such a way that the effectual top government is not particularly tied to the people it governs, rather they are just resources. And because they are just
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Ultimately utopistic. Nations will still compete for access to natural resources, and will feed nationalisms and cultural particolarisms in order to do so. Access to oil and water supplies plays a major part in the current Middle East situation. Cultural, racial and religious identities are just tools in this struggle, even if the media will try to pass a simplicistic good vs. evil scenario.
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How could countries that have strong national identities not discriminate? The whole purpose of the state is to be the agency for collective of the nation. Nations by their very nature have strong cultural and often ethnic identities. To not discriminate the state can't be the collective agency for nations.
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The USA has an idealogical identity and most certainly does discriminate against people who aren't part of the nation. Constant subtle pressure is applied. America even prides itself on being a melting pot. For example look at the wage discrepancy between: fluent unaccented English vs. accented English vs. monolingual non-English in the USA. Or for another example how the educational system undermines strong tribal bonds.
Jews in most nations including 1930s Germany were fully or almost fully assimilated
Sums it up nicely (Score:1)
If you question Israel in any way you are an anti-semite and a holocaust denier. If you are Jewish and question Israel, you are a self-hater.
"To find out who rules you, find out who you cannot criticize" - Voltaire
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Turns out the US and Isrial had an agreement on 9/11 also.
Youtube 9/11 experts speak out
Organized religion (Score:1)
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Actually there were 5 Israelis who were caught filming the 9/11 attacks while they happened and were cheering and high-fiving each other while the towers collapsed and people died. They were deported and later went on Israeli tv and claimed that their purpose for being in NY on 9/11 was to "document the event".
Israeli IM service Odigo sent messages to it's employees in WTC a full 2 hours before the attacks warning them to get out. The new WTC owner Larry Silverstein (Jew) made over $4 Billion from 9/11 att
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I lived in Brooklyn. Debris (paper) from the WTC was in my yard. I worked in Jersey City and took the Path train from WTC everyday. I followed the news intensely at the time. I never heard of these events you're mentioning.
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