space colonies on mars...
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GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - www.gush-shalom.org/
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[] While the diplomats talk, NASA dealing with West Bank settlement.
N.B.: Call for protest
On the eve of the Bush-Sharon summit in which the future of the West
Bank
settlements is at stake it turns out that a major agency of the
United
States Government - the National Space and Aeronautics Agency, NASA
- is
already on the way to granting both recognition and financial
sustenance
to the settlement-city of Ariel, which constitutes a major focus of
Sharon's land-grabbing and and annexation program.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), at Pasadena, California has
expressed its interest in a new robotics program developed by
researchers
at the "College of Judea and Samaria" in the Ariel settlement, for
incorporation into the planned 2009 robotic mission to Mars. In
addition
to space exploration, these new robotic techniques are expected to
have
terrestrial applications such as "Autonomous mobile robots performing
security and defence tasks, patrolling roads and hostile areas"
(sic!).
As a matter of fact, in the settlers' own boastful press release on
the
Ariel/NASA deal there is mention also of an unspecified role for two
other respectable institutions: the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
and the Tohoku University of Japan.
Gush Shalom sees settlements as the main obstacle on the way to peace
with the Palestinians.
We have many years campaigned for boycotting the products of
settlements -
with a significant follow-up of tens of thousands of Israeli
households.
We are very concerned at international institutions lending support
and
legitimacy to settlements such as Ariel.
We call upon you to express your concern to these institutes, using
either the sample letter appearing below or your own text.
For further info you can look up the Ariel college's own announcement
http://www.yosh.ac.il/news/press.asp#43
as well as the Ma'ariv Online article in Hebrew
http://images.maariv.co.il/cache/cachearchive/08032004/>> ART663191.htmls
and in English
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=4215
and also in the "Marsnews" website
http://www.marsnews.com/newswire/technology/
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