Just in case this vermin happens to read this thread:
Posted on 05/31/2004 10:07:27 AM PDT by quidnunc
In Washington state, a mother still struggles over the meaning of her daughter's sacrifice.
In March, 2003, Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death in Rafah, Gaza, beneath an Israeli bulldozer in an incident photos and witnesses suggest was a cold-blooded killing.
Rachel was shielding the home of a Palestinian physician whose home was targeted to enhance the security of the troops who make the lives of Gazans a living hell.
"I can't imagine any parent could feel losing a child would be worth it, but I know it was worthwhile for Rachel to do what she was doing to oppose injustice," says Cindy Corrie.
"She recognized the privilege she had living in this country."
Since then, hundreds more lives have been extinguished and homes obliterated in the crowded, cursed coastal strip that even Israeli Defence Minister Sha'ul Mofaz admits his country's settlers and soldiers should never have occupied.
It's an admission decades of death and destruction inflicted by Israel on Gaza has been wanton and gratuitous.
Similar treatment meted out to West Bank Palestinians has at least a tangible goal — the theft of more valued land with the resulting denial of its occupants' humanity.
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(Excerpt) Read more at canoe.ca ...
Mon, May 31, 2004
Double standard
Israel escapes sanctions imposed on other nations
By Bill Kaufmann -- Calgary Sun
In Washington state, a mother still struggles over the meaning of her daughter's sacrifice.
In March, 2003, Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death in Rafah, Gaza, beneath an Israeli bulldozer in an incident photos and witnesses suggest was a cold-blooded killing.
Rachel was shielding the home of a Palestinian physician whose home was targeted to enhance the security of the troops who make the lives of Gazans a living hell.
"I can't imagine any parent could feel losing a child would be worth it, but I know it was worthwhile for Rachel to do what she was doing to oppose injustice," says Cindy Corrie.
"She recognized the privilege she had living in this country."
Since then, hundreds more lives have been extinguished and homes obliterated in the crowded, cursed coastal strip that even Israeli Defence Minister Sha'ul Mofaz admits his country's settlers and soldiers should never have occupied.
It's an admission decades of death and destruction inflicted by Israel on Gaza has been wanton and gratuitous.
Similar treatment meted out to West Bank Palestinians has at least a tangible goal -- the theft of more valued land with the resulting denial of its occupants' humanity.
In Rafah earlier this month, Mofaz's words and Rachel Corrie's sacrifice had little bearing.
After those defending their homes killed seven invading Israeli soldiers, collective punishment was imposed.
Ahmad Almoghayar, 14, and his 16-year-old sister Asmah were both gunned down, guilty of doing laundry on a rooftop.
The Israeli military insisted they'd been killed by a militants' bomb, but the bullet wounds told a different story.
Sabir Abu Libduh, 13, was shot while seeking water.
A four-year-old girl, Rawan abu Zeid, had ventured out for candy during a lull but died instead, shot in the head and neck. Her grieving father noted she held no rocket launcher.
Israeli missiles struck youths and children demonstrating against the destruction of their neighbourhoods; the army claimed they were armed, but TV footage showed otherwise.
Mohammad Joma, 12, was one of eight marchers killed.
Those dead kids won't miss the tiny Rafah Zoo, a rare refuge for children also levelled in the Israeli rampage.
Among the zoo dead was a terrorist ostrich.
The elderly infirm were no safer; a bedridden Suleman Qishta, 90, was almost pulverized when bulldozers hit his Rafah home without warning.
Since 2000, more than 11,000 people in Rafah alone have been made homeless -- refugees uprooted yet again, and again.
Hardly an anomaly, this kind of vandalism and killing occurs regularly throughout the West Bank as well.
"Israel has a right to defend itself," responds a delusional G.W. Bush in one of his numerous flights of absurdity.
What they're defending is occupation and subjugation.
Given the cruelty of the occupiers, it's understandable that Gazans would smuggle weapons.
Defending themselves is "terrorism," we're told by the Israeli regime and their apologists, who've conditioned most of us to accept an entire people deserve to be ground into the dirt.
During a visit several years ago to Gaza, a young media liaison for the Palestinian Authority described his home to me as "a big prison ... I'm sorry that there's no beauty here."
Surprisingly, he spoke candidly on the corruption of Arafat's regime, but also sadly noted relatives living outside Gaza couldn't visit him due to Israel's apartheid policies.
In the squalid filth and dead rats of Gaza's Beach Camp market, a young man desperately, angrily demanded I accept a taxi ride from him -- to wherever -- before being restrained.
Even so, I could hardly fault a people so bereft of hope and support from the outside world.
We hear constantly about an unfair "double standard" imposed on Israel but if any existed, it's amounted to nothing but hollow verbiage.
The double standard that counts is the one enjoyed by Israel, courtesy of the U.S. which would normally slap economic sanctions or threaten war on countries illegally occupying and crushing their neighbours.
Instead, America's favourite ethnic cleanser, Ariel Sharon, is cut another fat cheque and offered more bulldozer blades.
If American Rachel Corrie had been squashed to a pulp by one of the "axis of evil" it would have been grounds to launch another disastrous war.
Cindy Corrie says she hopes the killing of her daughter "brings some change and balance" to U.S. Mideast policy.
But double standards die hard.
It's weird... the very mention of Rachel Corrie makes me hungry for Kraft Singles and Fruit Roll-Ups on flatbread.
One Canadian's view, more accurately. ......and a warped view it is.
Just in case this vermin happens to read this thread:
"the crowded, cursed coastal strip that even Israeli Defence Minister Sha'ul Mofaz admits his country's settlers and soldiers should never have occupied."
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I doubt the Iraeli defense minister really said what is attributed to him here? And I suspect the reason this little snit of a Canadian columnist would make up something like this is that he knows nothing of the 1967 war and who attacked whom.
BTW, if the quotes from the faminly are correct we have another leftist family playing politics with the death of their child. These people know no shame.
that whole article could have been replaced with two words: Sieg heil
"Rachel was shielding the home of a Palestinian physician whose home was targeted to enhance the security of the troops who make the lives of Gazans a living hell"
I thought the dozer was there to destroy a tunnel network the Israeli's had found. I've seen pictures of Rachel protesting America. She was your typical ignorant brainwashed ranting america-hating liberal. A useful idiot who burned American flags on the Arab street, then counted on her American citizenship to grant her special protection.
Her death was an accident. The dozer driver couldn't see her. If only her parents had deprogrammed her. Of course, they are probably too deeply invested in the "cult" Liberalism. How come we never saw them protesting against the Taliban or the Saddam's Republican Guard?
Did you miss this part: "Given the cruelty of the occupiers, it's understandable that Gazans would smuggle weapons."? In this sentence, he admits she was shielding terrorists smuggling weapons.
thoughtomator wrote:
It's weird... the very mention of Rachel Corrie makes me hungry for Kraft Singles and Fruit Roll-Ups on flatbread.
If only Rachel had given her life while riding Israeli buses to watch for Palestinian bombers, she could have been splattered by a Palestinian terrorist bomb instead of being run over playing chicken with a bulldozer.
"he knows nothing of the 1967 war and who attacked whom."
This is just a small part of what he does not know, or does not care to know.
Are you kidding? You could get killed that way! MUCH safer to stand up to those in power when they have no intention of using that power on you.*
< /sarcasm>
*Does not apply to idiots who stand in front of low-visibility armored bulldozers.
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Mrs. Corrie has seen the photos of her daughter donning a headscarf and burning drawings of the American flag, hasn't she?
Mrs. Corrie, your daughter had no clue whatsoever. If she really was opposed to injustiuce, she'd have been fighting the Pallies who murder pregnant women and blkow up buses. She would have been helping the IDF, not attempting to hinder them.
If you think this article is vile, check out this piece (see below) where he says the following about Israel: "But if your troops act like animals and treat the subjugated like animals, some of them will behave like animals."
Actually, if anyone is an animal, Kaufmann, that man is you.
Joel C
September 1, 2003
They deserve better
Realities of Israeli oppression rarely aired in North America
By BILL KAUFMANN -- Calgary Sun
Shawn Dombrowski's first task once he'd arrived in the Holy Land was to dissect the Israeli Defence Force's destruction of a Palestinian ambulance.
The Fort McMurray Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) said the Israeli troops knew the vehicle had been given clearance to enter Ramallah, but launched their grenade through its windshield anyway.
"The 40-mm grenade probably went right into the doctor's chest and blew up ... three EMTs had 80% burns over their bodies," he told a Calgary audience last spring.
The more fortunate paramedics are beaten to a pulp by the soldiers, used as human shields by them, kidnapped or delayed for hours from reaching patients, Dombrowski reported.
Palestinians on the streets during curfew, even those seeking medicine or food were shot out of hand, he added.
It's all part of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine, where kids throwing stones at tanks are gunned down, schools are destroyed, clinics ransacked, homes plundered, tank shells lobbed into marketplaces and missiles hurled into crowds.
After being driven out of what's now Israel in 1948, the Palestinians are now enduring a second, more gradual expulsion in the West Bank -- ethnic cleansing slow enough as to escape undue world -- read American public -- attention.
Despite the "road map" to peace, land continues to be confiscated to build Israeli settlements, which brings the occupation troops and roads for the exclusive use of settlers that dissects Palestinian land, making life barely liveable.
Palestinians avoiding the numerous roadblocks on their own land to go about their daily lives invite a hail of bullets.
While settlers fill their swimming pools, Palestinians go begging for water; the army destroys wells.
Countless orchards nurtured over generations have been wiped out, marketplaces bulldozed, civilian infrastructure everywhere trashed, often for no apparent security reason.
"They just want the Palestinians to give up, leave their ancestral lands and go to Jordan," says Calgarian Sky McLaughlin, an educator in Ramallah.
Since the current intifadeh broke out three years ago, nearly 13,000 Palestinians have been rendered homeless by the IDF, which has made a weapon out of food and withholding other humanitarian aid -- some of the many war crimes it commits.
The IDF is notorious for killing journalists, aid workers and targetting human rights activists. This year, activist Rachel Corrie of Olympia, Wash. was crushed to death by an IDF bulldozer as she defended a Gaza home.
The Israelis called it an accident, that the driver couldn't see the 23-year-old peaceful demonstrator, but photos tell a different story.
In an e-mail from the bombed-out squalor of Rafah camp, Corrie described the lot of a people suffering under the world's fourth most powerful military.
"No amount of reading, attendance at conferences, documentary viewing could have prepared me for the situation here -- you just can't imagine it unless you see it."
In a journey to the area four years ago, I met Israeli occupation soldiers in Hebron and Gaza disgusted with their mission.
Another witness, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa compares the oppression to the apartheid of earlier experience.
These realities are rarely aired among North Americans and those who do are labelled anti-Semitic. Presumably those Israeli soldiers of conscience are anti-Semites, too.
Now, under cover of the road map, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is building the security fence which meanders further onto Palestinian soil, cutting off farms and villages from the land and water that sustains them.
Sharon is adamant not a single settlement will be vacated -- a recipe for continued conflict -- precisely what he seeks.
Victory in the 1967 war made the long-held dreams of Israeli expansionists a reality, though the price paid for the colonization by both Israelis and Palestinians has been steep.
The terrorist suicide bombings are evil, detestable and should stop immediately; not only do they shatter innocent lives, they imperil the Palestinian cause. Enough is enough.
When the criminal scum who order the bombings are liquidated, it's impossible to summon sympathy for them.
But if your troops act like animals and treat the subjugated like animals, some of them will behave like animals.
And the current road map charade, driven by Israel bullying its feeble foe to accept whatever crumbs it deems fit to toss them, will ensure endless bloodshed.
Palestinians deserve better.
So do Israelis.
Actually, Israel [justifiably] launched the attacks in 1967. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq massed their armies on Israel's borders and Nasser was making speech after speech about ending the Israel problem soon. However, while the A-Rabs kept shooting off their mouths, Israel launched a massive pre-emptive attack and . . . the rest is history. Pity that the U.S. and British (the main supporters of Israel at that time) stopped them after only six days.
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