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The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement (israelnationalnews.com)
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.
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.
Israel has been fighting a war since 1948. The Arabs got their asses handed to them every time they tried to use military force. That is the number one reason the Arab countries continue to attack Israel. The Arabs were humiliated by their military defeats. Since the military solution was not going to work they changed their tactics.
The new tactics focused on killing civilians, hijacking planes, blowing up restaurants and any other places that might have a lot of Jews, and killing members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich. Gaza belonged to Egypt and the West Bank belonged to Jordan before 1967. Prior to 1967 the people living in those territories did not call themselves Palestinians. Israel offered to return those territories in exchange for a peace treaty and the Arabs rejected that offer.