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The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement (israelnationalnews.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the working-together dept.

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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  1. AWESOME! by harrkev · · 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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    1. Re:AWESOME! by harrkev · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You realise that you're talking about Israel, an actual nuclear-weapon-equipped power, right? This is part of why the region is as it is.

      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 interest in technology that does not go "boom." If you will recall, the Intel Core Architecture was invented in Israel (derived from Pentium M). Israel is actually a hotbed of technology and science. See here.

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    2. Re:AWESOME! by guantamanera · · Score: 3, Insightful

      When has Israel ever used force? Only when provoked.

      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.

    3. Re:AWESOME! by jbolden · · Score: 1, Insightful

      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 and no one talks about razing homes and building settlements.

      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.

    4. Re:AWESOME! by Maritz · · Score: 2, Insightful

      When has Israel ever used force? Only when provoked.

      LOL. Doesn't take much to 'provoke' them does it.

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  2. Re: Outer space? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And FYI: there is noting wrong with building settlements on your land.

    But that's not all the only place they build, is it?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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