Why US Ambassador Condemned IDF Probe, Boosting ISM’s Rachel Corrie Myth
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U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro added his support to the ISM effort to create martyrs in their fight against Israel.
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April 2, 2002, Australian Kate Edwards was shot and wounded in Beit Jala near Jerusalem having been made to stand where Palestinians were firing on the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo.
Also in April, 2002, Irish Caomhe Butterly served as a human shield in Yasir Arafat’s compound in Ramallah, and on November 22 she inserted herself as a human shield again and was wounded during an IDF operation in Jenin. (Butterly was later an organizer and spokesperson aboard the 2010 Gaza flotilla).
On April 13, 2003, Thomas Hurndall was shot and killed when he challenged an Israeli tank force in Gaza.
On April 24, 2010, Bianca Zammit, a Maltese national, joined Palestinians who charged the security fence between Gaza and Israel and was shot through the thigh by a sniper.
On May 31, 2010, Emily Henochowicz, an American Jew, lost her eye after she was hit by a tear gas grenade that ricocheted off a highway divider during a violent demonstration near Qalandia in Judea and Samaria.
There’s appears to be no doubt that the ISM has been methodical about throwing its members into the line of fire.
How much preparation did those hapless martyrs receive?
Well, Kate Edwards actually told a reporter: “I never thought for a moment that they would fire live ammunition at us.”
While Rachel Corrie wrote to her mother about the possibility of an American activist’s death as a propaganda tool:
“You just can’t imagine it unless you see it, and even then you are always well aware that your experience is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli Army would face if they shot an unarmed U.S. citizen.”
That’s how much.
tell a friendAbout the Author: Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the US correspondent for The Jewish Press. She is a recovered lawyer who previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools.
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An American girl with no personal ties to the region decides that she is going to change an old and complicated conflict by interfering with the IDF, a powerful military force which has developed over many years to defend Israeli citizens from violent attacks by 21 Muslim countries which want to destroy it. With an obvious sense of great righteousness she sits down in front of a huge bulldozer.
She is killed. Her cohorts then contend that she was killed on purpose. The righteous white, Western, Christian damsel becomes their martyr. Ms. Corrie put herself in danger. In a combat zone, unarmed journalists and photographers, and combatants get killed, sometimes by friendly fire. The hubris of this girl and her family and the rest of the ISM gang makes me sick. For two thousand years Christianity has blamed the Jews for murdering Jesus, a death which they exalt theologically as their salvation. What's the difference?
I know plenty of Christians who are supportive of Israel and those who think that they can make a statement and change the world by stopping a bulldozer are truly naive! I blame that Anti-Israel brain manipulation movement that contributed to placing her in a definite life/death situation. She chose to be there and the organization allowed her to be in danger- perhaps Israel should pass a law that foreigners are not allowed to live there and join these lethal organizations! I pray for the Peace of Jerusalem! Shalom
As i understand it, most US Christians side with Israel. No all of course but some. Real Christians know that the death of Christ was not because of Jews.
What happened to Charity begins at Home USA veterans suicide 14 a month Go Help your own, FIRST. USA Homeless needs help, Why they need to go around the world stick their nose anywhere like a Drone strike or suicide bomber. Americans go home clean house,"When your living in a Glass House, throw no stones".
You are right- we have enough to clean up in our own back yard!
Ambassador Shapiro's statement is not credible. It seems the Obama administration is not yet finished with slapping the faces of the righteous people of Israel. What's next? Sending Rabbi Lynne Gottlieb as the next ambassador?
Remember that it was the Bush administration that first stated that the IDF investigation was not as thorough, credible or transparent as desired which President Bush was assured by Sharon would occur.
According to Oslo, the IDF had no right to be in the area they were working as they were over 150 meters off of the Philadelphi Corridor. Per Oslo it was the the IDF that was in the wrong place. And, the Israeli military command knew that this Oslo stipulation was problematic for them….so they took the matter into their own hands and violated Oslo and were creating the buffer zone. The last thing the IDF needed was a video like showed up two days before Rachel's death showing the bulldozers working well into Palestinian territory and inside the wall….Oslo Oslo Oslo. That is what this is about and photographs and videos surfacing proving the IDF in huge violation.
Cheryl Brodersen wow you wind biggest lying bigot award for tody? Related to the Corries then?
Cheryl Brodersen Thank you for pointing out the Oslo connection. I hadn't read that anywhere. Do you think there will be repercussions?
What I did read is that now people are calling for Nato/UN to invade Israel, secure its nuclear weapons, and set up an international government. Do you think there's any possibility that this would be attempted?
There was a report that Corrie was taken to a Palestinian hospital, alive. Either her injuries were beyond the capabilities of the hospital – or she was "sacrificed" for their propaganda cause.
Where did you see that? This is the first time I heard it, but it does seem plasuible.
the corries are racist jew haters, and rachel is the worst.
they lost the court case in Haifa's eastern district.
The article highlights how even Palestinians distrusted women like Rachel Corrie.
And how they don't hesitate to put them in harms way
Well, it's over, I believe. The Haifa court just ruled for the IDF. ISM needs fresh, new martyr recruits.
Yes, you're right Yori. They have to keep the new martyr recruits coming. Maybe more girls would come if they knew that they were going to be part of Arafat's 72 women.
All fingers of accusation point to Israel. The French courts are currently investigating the death of Arafat and, I expect, will conclude that his death was a homicide. The usual suspects will be "rounded-up" and yes, you guessed it…they will accuse Israel and the Mossad. Interestingly enough, the Polonium-210 found on the remains of Arafat has a half-life of only 138 days…so…do the math..someone at the autopsy "tampered"
with the evidence since Arafat died in 2004.
Also, they found the polonium in his clothes but not in his hair. Explain that miracle of modern science.
The Corries must share part of the blame. When you raise a bigot to support terrosim you shoud be ashamed. My prays for their grief, but hopefully they will change their lives and renounce the anti-semitic livestyle.
She was just plain stupid to sit behind a D9 Bulldozer. Once in the military the same thing almost happen to me and I was at fault. I was not being careful.
It is hard to think of a better instance of natural selection than Rachel Corrie (Vittorio Arrigoni, the anti-Israel Italian pacifist who was strangled by his Gazan terrorist hosts certainly comes to mind) who grew up in a privileged setting in the States and ended up joining the ISM, a virulently anti-Israel organization which has consistently aided terrorist groups such as Islamic Jihad in deadly attacks on Israeli commercial establishments. And now the people from whom she inherited her defunct "useful" idiot DNA are doing everything in their power to perpetuate the same vapid lie of Israeli injustice that surely was responsible for misleading their deceased offspring to run off to a war zone and kneel in bushes in the path of a D9 bulldozer.
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