[I happened to catch Amy Goodman’s interview with the Corrie family today on the occasion of the beginning of the civil case protesting her killing by an Israeli bulldozer seven years ago as she was trying to halt its destruction of a Palestinian home filled with family members.
The family has faced on-going Israeli resistance to their protest of their 23 year old’s killing which has now allowed only a civil suit to meet statutory limitations.
Rachel was trying to protect Palestinians from the destruction of their homes in Gaza — an Israeli tactic used to convert Palestinian properties to Israeli colonies — I refuse to use the euphemism, “settlement” to describe these abuses. Israel is an occupying nation and is doing some of the same things that we have done in the way of killing innocents where we have pulled similar grabs.
We now know that Iraq was an illegal invasion which has simultaneously cost us a fortune while losing us the support of the Afghans who now are similarly resisting our occupation. Will we and the Israelis never learn or do we believe that military dominance allows such license? Needless to say caring Jews both in Israel, here, and in other nations are as appalled as I am by this behavior. At least Obama is trying to make peace here and there, whereas the Israelis seem determined to make enemies wherever they can.
The website below offers the latest as of today. What a horror for this family to face!
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“Court begins hearing civil suit brought against Israeli government over death of US activist killed by Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza Link to this video
“A court today began hearing a civil suit brought against the Israeli government over the death of Rachel Corrie, the US activist who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago.
“While Corrie was in the Palestinian territories, she wrote vividly about her experiences. Her diaries were later turned into a play, My Name is Rachel Corrie, which has toured internationally, including in Israel and the West Bank.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/10/rachel-corrie-civil-case-israel–
“A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope.” (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhat a bunch of horseshit. And you know it.
Why do idiots like you always try to replace history with a manufactured version to suit your fucked up agenda.
Idiot!
I believe he is right Mr. Kent. You seem to have misplaced the facts.
Hey chatstu…”misplacing” the facts would infer that at one point in time Mr. Kent had the facts…I’m not sure he ever has…he has had way too much kool-aid
True Mr Williams, I was just teasing him a little. I looked up several news articles about it yesterday
and they were quite different from his version.
I think Mr. Kent might be one of those leftover communist infiltrators from the 50’s that never came forward…LOL…every day he is on here talking about how horrible America is
You may be on to something. Reckon he’ll move to Russia or one of those other great countries that we have treated so poorly?
Of course not…for some reason people like Mr. Kent love to bash America as a horrible nation, but never leave…pity.
I have to agree with the comments, here.
This family raised their daughter to think she had the right to go anywhere in the world and do her sophomoric protesting without harm or repercussion. They are, in part, guilty of getting her killed, IMO. Now, they want to be paid for it.
The liberals usually do their protesting where it’s safe and they are protected by taxpayers.
I will mention the 3 “hikers” who just happened to wander into Iran… What the hell is any intelligent person doing hiking in the mid-east?? They are now finding out that other countries don’t put up with the bullshit that is protected by our Constitution.
Unlike our soldiers, the liberal lunatics consistantly take the side of the enemies of freedom. They believe that they are somehow bullet proof–and that they will also be afforded great respect for their ridiculous actions. Throwing rocks and urine, at police and military in other countries is not a protected right.
Get this, Amnesty International, NOW, ACORN, moveon.org, or any of the other useless thug-hugging entities are not coming to your rescue–at least outside the comfortable confines of our borders. The teachers and professors who filled your mind with socialist crap won’t be there for you either. Grow the hell up!
Well stated Karen!!!
Well stated indeed.
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