Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumThey 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
King_David
(14,851 posts)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.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)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
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)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...
I'm pretty sure you don't want any part of this one.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)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:
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
shira
(30,109 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/04/21/is-the-international-solidarity-movement-pro-terrorist-a-response-to-huwaida-arraf/?tid=a_inl
The ISM is filled with white Supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Holocaust Deniers.
A sick & disgusting vile organization.
King_David
(14,851 posts)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/
shira
(30,109 posts)Peace activists don't do that.
King_David
(14,851 posts)She could well have been shouting "Drath to America " and now they want American sympathy?
Fuck that .
red dog 1
(29,116 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Many are familiar with her and her...activities.
shira
(30,109 posts)Thanks for that article.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)and find your post here disgusting and indicative that you are bereft of humanity.
King_David
(14,851 posts)I find this post of yours disgusting.
Here's a pic of her I found burning an American Flag :
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)grave-dancing it looks marvelous on you really brings out your personality.
Israeli
(4,280 posts)....fights the occupation red dog 1.
see :
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1316-remembering-rachel-corrie
King_David
(14,851 posts)LOL
Zionists allow a post Zionist or AntiZionist to speak for them ?
red dog 1
(29,116 posts)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)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
Bok_Tukalo
(4,397 posts)Weird.
Israeli
(4,280 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)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)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 ISMs 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
ericson00
(2,707 posts)n/t