FWD: ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS NASA LAUNCH

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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." 

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