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Israel plans development of space weapons capable of striking targets on Earth (www.jpost.com)

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 34 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I thought there were agreements regarding the fact that weapons should not be deployed to space.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Israel's track record of abiding by international laws and treaties is.... Well. Less than stellar.

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[–] jamesrandi@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Baddum - Tsss...

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

they'll use those weapons too. And they'll feel great about using them.

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Ha! Israel following agreements regarding weapons. Ahh ... good one!

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah but as we all know by now, it's considered deeply antisemetic to say no to israel.

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[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

From what I understand it's only WMDs that are internationally banned from space, while obviously a rather distasteful thing to do it's not unlawful to put conventional weapons in space. The Soviets armed some of their space stations with autocannon for example, which isn't even the best example of their space programme making Bond villains everywhere look like complete scrubs.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 point 2 days ago

No one was ever going to respect such an agreement. This stuff has been in the works for a while. Russia looks like it's testing out it's own satelite killing tech as we speak as well.

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