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red dog 1

(29,116 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:48 PM Mar 2016

They Are Us, We Are Them: Remembering Rachel Corrie

Common Dreams.org
March 17, 2016


This week marks the 13th anniversary of the death of a 23-year old American activist and human being under the blade of an Israeli military U.S.-funded bulldozer as she protested the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.

After an obligatory "investigation," Israeli officials declared her death "a regrettable accident," hastening to lay the blame on "a group of protesters who were acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger."

After years of legal battles seeking justice and accountability, her family lost their latest appeal last year when Israel's Supreme Court ruled to exempt the defense ministry from liability in the murderous actions it deemed, unconscionably, but not surprisingly,
"wartime activity."

Corrie continues to be honored and memorialized by many Palestinians and activists as
"someone who always found hope and inspiration in people's resistance ..(and) recognized how our realities and our inspirations are intertwined."

Corrie voiced those truths in a speech about world hunger when she was ten.

May she rest in peace and power.


See photos:
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/03/17/they-are-us-we-are-them-remembering-rachel-corrie

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They Are Us, We Are Them: Remembering Rachel Corrie (Original Post) red dog 1 Mar 2016 OP
I don't think more than 40 or 50 Americans even know who RC was... King_David Mar 2016 #1
Tasteless. n/t Little Tich Mar 2016 #2
Truth though. nt King_David Mar 2016 #3
From the lawyer representing Rachel Corrie's parents' in their civil case vs. Israel.... shira Mar 2016 #7
It's extremely impolite to mock the dead, I hope you'll understand that when you grow up. n/t Little Tich Mar 2016 #13
Best for you to lay low on Rachel Corrie altogether... shira Mar 2016 #8
I hope you understand that you're attacking the views of other people than Rachel Corrie. Little Tich Mar 2016 #14
They're all ISM, like Corrie was. All supporters & enablers of terror. shira Mar 2016 #17
I did see on grossprofit link this interesting pic of her: King_David Mar 2016 #9
Not a good role model for the kids surrounding her. shira Mar 2016 #10
Especially burning an American flag, King_David Mar 2016 #11
+ 1 red dog 1 Mar 2016 #15
Here's a pic for you of Rachel Corrie: King_David Mar 2016 #16
Just another "freedom fighter." grossproffit Mar 2016 #4
The ISM is a particularly nasty pro-terror organization Corrie belonged to. shira Mar 2016 #6
Some of us do remember... tonedevil Mar 2016 #18
Huh ? King_David Mar 2016 #19
Please continue your enthusatic... tonedevil Mar 2016 #20
. King_David Mar 2016 #21
She is remembered by everyone who .... Israeli Mar 2016 #5
You're a spokeswoman for everyone who opposes the occupation? King_David Mar 2016 #12
Why don't the citizens of Israel demand new elections and throw Netanyahu out? red dog 1 Mar 2016 #24
I remember her the late Alan Rickman's play My name is Rachel Corrie azurnoir Mar 2016 #29
Not sure why burning an American flag is a capital offense for some. Bok_Tukalo Mar 2016 #22
Getting that way for us too Bok_Tukalo....... Israeli Mar 2016 #23
That picture puts the lie to Corrie being a peace activist. shira Mar 2016 #25
There's this too. grossproffit Mar 2016 #26
well said. She's no better than a jihadist suicider ericson00 Mar 2016 #28
Not for some, for many. grossproffit Mar 2016 #27

King_David

(14,851 posts)
1. I don't think more than 40 or 50 Americans even know who RC was...
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 09:23 PM
Mar 2016

Justin Beiber isn't even American but yet he's known by millions...

Remember RC ? How if no one ever knew her.

I had to google her name.. Most of it wasn't pleasant....



JB :


https://m.

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
7. From the lawyer representing Rachel Corrie's parents' in their civil case vs. Israel....
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:19 AM
Mar 2016
Lawyer Abu Hussein: "Nazi Germany was a state based on the rule of law for a short while... the State of Israel was founded from the start on robbery and theft"


The International or Palestine Solidarity Movement (ISM, PSM) are the Jew haters who put the Free Gaza Flotilla thing together. Remember Greta Berlin? Same, nasty neo-Nazi outfit.

Alison Weir is part of that ISM, PSM gang of lunatic fascists. She's the white supremacist founder of If Americans Knew...
http://www.allthatsleftcollective.com/blog/2015/7/29/good-riddance-to-white-supremacists


 

shira

(30,109 posts)
8. Best for you to lay low on Rachel Corrie altogether...
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:40 AM
Mar 2016

Forget that her parents' Israel hating Lawyer (wanting Israel destroyed) vs. Israel believes Nazi Germany was based on the rule of law & that Israel is far worse than Nazi Germany...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/corries-lawyer-termed-israel-a-giant-monster-in-arabic-interview/

A curious choice for the Corries' legal representative against Israel.

Rachel Corrie was part of the terror supporting ISM/PSM (Greta Berlin, Alison Weir, Gilad Atzmon...)

Weir, BTW, is a white supremacist.
http://www.allthatsleftcollective.com/blog/2015/7/29/good-riddance-to-white-supremacists

Gilad Atzmon naturally supports Weir. Greta Berlin still does too. No surprise there.

But then again, so does Mondoweiss.
That rat hole can't even separate itself from white supremacists...

For myself, whose activism is around educating on the issue, it is becoming increasingly a “preaching to the choir” scenario at many of our events. But on May 12, I’m hosting Alison Weir (If Americans Knew) in my quaint little village of Cazenovia, New York, and expect we’ll raise some eyebrows with an uninitiated audience. Hopefully the “heroes” of our university system can not touch us at the public library. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/finkelstein-syracuse-opposition#sthash.5sR1Mf2F.dpuf


I'm pretty sure you don't want any part of this one.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
14. I hope you understand that you're attacking the views of other people than Rachel Corrie.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 09:57 PM
Mar 2016

what does it matter what Greta Berlin, Alison Weir, or Gilad Atzmon think, when the issue is about Corrie. I find your argumentation useless simply because you haven't provided any info about Corrie.

Besides, it seems as if ISM isn't connected to or supportive of terrorism at all. I did a quick look at their Wikipedia, and I didn't find anything that I would consider support for terrorism. Apparently ISM has already stated that they're against terrorism:

ISM further explains on its website:

The ISM does not support or condone any acts of terrorism – which is not legitimate armed struggle. The ISM does not associate, support, or have anything to do with armed or violent resistance to the occupation. The ISM does not assist or engage in any kind of armed resistance, no matter what form it may take.

This right to resist occupation applies not only to the Palestinian people, but to all peoples who are faced with a military occupation. The ISM regards all people as equals with equal rights under international law. We believe that nonviolent action is a powerful weapon in fighting oppression and are committed to the principles of nonviolent resistance.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Solidarity_Movement

King_David

(14,851 posts)
9. I did see on grossprofit link this interesting pic of her:
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 07:59 AM
Mar 2016


For me anyone burning an American flag ever , deserves no respect ever , in life or death. Burning the flag is just not on , and shows exactly what type of person she was , all in 1 little pic.






http://ukmediawatch.org/2012/08/26/the-continued-exploitation-of-rachel-corrie/

King_David

(14,851 posts)
11. Especially burning an American flag,
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 08:39 AM
Mar 2016

She could well have been shouting "Drath to America " and now they want American sympathy?

Fuck that .

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
6. The ISM is a particularly nasty pro-terror organization Corrie belonged to.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:12 AM
Mar 2016

Thanks for that article.

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
18. Some of us do remember...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 04:12 PM
Mar 2016

and find your post here disgusting and indicative that you are bereft of humanity.

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
20. Please continue your enthusatic...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:55 PM
Mar 2016

grave-dancing it looks marvelous on you really brings out your personality.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
12. You're a spokeswoman for everyone who opposes the occupation?
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 05:03 PM
Mar 2016

LOL

Zionists allow a post Zionist or AntiZionist to speak for them ?

red dog 1

(29,116 posts)
24. Why don't the citizens of Israel demand new elections and throw Netanyahu out?
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:14 PM
Mar 2016

He and his terrorist Likud Party are the ones who keep building new settlements.

He does NOT have the support of a majority of Israelis, only a plurality.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
29. I remember her the late Alan Rickman's play My name is Rachel Corrie
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 03:52 AM
Mar 2016

was barred from being preformed in NYC by the New York Theater Workshop-however it was preformed in other US cities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Rachel_Corrie

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
25. That picture puts the lie to Corrie being a peace activist.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 06:12 PM
Mar 2016

The organization she was part of (the ISM or PSM) is run by white supremacists & holocaust deniers who support Hamas terror against random Israelis.

Corrie was an anarchist killed defending Hamas weapons tunnels. She assisted terrorists.

grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
26. There's this too.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:12 PM
Mar 2016
The ISM-Terror Connection
By: Lee Kaplan
Wednesday, September 13, 2006


As a front group for Palestinian terrorists, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sends young people from all over the world to the training fields of the West Bank and Gaza to learn from terrorists and to aid them logistically. Stop the ISM has now obtained photographs of ISM leaders and organizers holding AK-47 assault rifles. The images show some of the ISM women disguised as Jews living in the West Bank and in the company of an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade terrorist.

One of our volunteers in the United Kingdom for Stop the ISM managed to infiltrate the ISM late last June in the Holy Land where the ISM operates in direct support of terrorists. Our volunteer (who prefers to remain anonymous to avoid retaliatory attacks) has had prior experience going undercover for the police in the UK. The photos and intelligence he brought back are proving invaluable to intelligence agencies watching the ISM and have been in official hands for over a month prior to this publication.

Unfortunately, neither U.S. Homeland Security nor the Israeli security agencies have to date regarded the ISM as a serious threat. Some of these ISM people in these photos managed to escape; nevertheless, arrests have been made, and more are forthcoming.

In April 2003, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that "ISM members take an active part in illegal and violent actions against IDF soldiers. At times, their activity in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip is under the auspices of Palestinian terrorist organizations." The ISM always tries to maintain the veneer of a “peace group”; however, ISM founders Adam Shapiro and his wife, Huwaida Arraf, and Norcal ISM’s leader Paul LaRudee, a man who Stop the ISM recently succeeded in getting deported from Israel as a security threat, began revealing their true colors recently by going to Lebanon to act as “human shields” for the Hezbollah.

http://www.stoptheism.com/content/index.php?pid=1&cid=43
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