Arab League Condemns Space Launch

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Arabs Condemn (Shuttle) Launch (w/Israeli Astronaut)
Little Green Footballs
1.17.02
Charles Johnson

Arabs Condemn Launch

The enigmatic and erudite E. Nough has unearthed a shocking story from the al-Jee'ef news wire:

ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS NASA LAUNCH
Arab street 'explodes' in the wake of 'illegal Zionist occupation' of Earth orbit

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (al-Jee'ef) - The Arab league "strongly condemned" today the launch of the NASA
space shuttle Columbia with Israeli astronaut Col. Ilan Ramon on board. "This is surely but the first step towards complete and outright illegal Zionist occupation of space," said Arab League spokesman Abr Souffla. "We will not sit idly by and permit this usurpation of a cosmos that by birthright belongs to the Palestinian people and their Arab and Muslim brethren. The Israeli occupation of Palestine must end, and the Zionists must not be permitted any further territorial grabs of Historic Palestine, whether in the West Bank or in low earth orbit."

In Gaza City today, thousands of Palestinians marched in the streets, many firing weapons into the air. "With our blood and our souls, we will strike the orbital Zionists," chanted the protestors. Sheikh Yermani-Makr, appearing on Palestinian television, said, "It is not enough that the unbelievers have come on our land, but now they also take our heavens? How can this be permitted?" Palestinian youths also took to the streets in Nablus, chanting, "One! two! Where's the Arab manned space program?" In Nablus, three Palestinian youths were dragged through the streets by members of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade, who accused them of being "collaborators." Witnesses
said that the teenagers were heard making positive statements about the American science fiction program Star
Trek, several of whose main characters were played by Jewish actors. Reports of the teenagers having received "atomic wedgies" were unconfirmed.

In New York today, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that an Israeli presense in space is "unhelpful" and would only serve to further aggravate tensions between Israelis and Arabs. The sentiment was echoed from Madrid by EU representative Javier Solana, who said that what the Middle East needed was more negotiation, and "less cosmic adventurism."

Yaser Arafat's live speech on the Qatar-based pan-Arab satellite network al-Jazeera today was quickly discontinued as he began talking about "Martyrs by the millions, floating toward Jupiter."

 

[DownUnder23]

wtf

 

[2Thick]

I agree with the idea of the US taxpayer should NOT be paying for a foreign citizen to go to space.

NASA is funded by MY tax dollars, not Israeli money.

 

[ThePolishHammer]

I agree with the idea of the US taxpayer should NOT be paying for a foreign citizen to go to space.

NASA is funded by MY tax dollars, not Israeli money.

Agreed... and im canadian

However, on the flip side maybe itll encourage other nations to be a little more pro-activ in space exploration. but it could also do the opposite, if there gettin a free ride there anyway

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

I agree with the idea of the US taxpayer should NOT be paying for a foreign citizen to go to space.

NASA is funded by MY tax dollars, not Israeli money.

As if the launch would be cheaper without him! Would they save fuel?LOL

 

[2Thick]

As if the launch would be cheaper without him! Would they save fuel?LOL

That is not the point. If people want to fly with the Russians, they pay 20 million.

It disgusts me. Not because it was an Israeli, but because it was a foreign person riding for free on MY tax dollar.

 

[ThePolishHammer]

The fact that hes israelii aside.
Lets just view him as a foreigner. Would you have a problem with any foreigner going to space, under the same circumstances the israellii did? What about the diplomatic ties this creates, those are certainely important to the U.S.

 

[manny78]

"Zionist occupation of space" wow what of a bunch of ignorant. But anyway space missions are a waste of money...

 

[~HOUNDOG~]

It's just an elitist club with no justification.

 

[ThePolishHammer]

Without it what are we supposed to do? Just sit here stagnating?
If we stay here, on a long enough time line we are all dead. Through space exploration at least that becomes debatable.

but for the immiediate term, space exploration acts as an excellent way to create strong diplomatic ties between nations. And give citizens a feeling of progression.

 

[the nature boy]

jews in space is like black people swimming..... you don't see it happening too often.

thank you.