Posted on 05/21/2014 7:59:16 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Almost two years after a Haifa court ruled that Israel was not negligent in the 2003 death of American activist Rachel Corrie during a protest against IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, the Supreme Court heard her family’s appeal of the verdict Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking before the hearing in Jerusalem, Craig Corrie, the activist’s father, said the lower court’s ruling had given the army “immunity and impunity.”
“I think that’s very dangerous,” he said. “I hope the Israeli high court will change the findings, but if they don’t, I hope the world and the world press will bring it into the open and Israel’s friends and other nations will help them behave in the right way.”
Corrie, a 23-year-old native of Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death on March 16, 2003, by a military armored bulldozer clearing vegetation in a combat zone along the Gaza-Egypt border. She was a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group that has sent Western volunteers to interfere with Israeli military activities in Gaza and the West Bank.
During the hearing, lawyer Hussein Abu Hussein, reading from torn handwritten notes, made the case that the area was not formally declared a closed military zone — the general’s order has never been found — and that the motivation to continue the operation, amid civilian protest, was rooted in avoiding the establishment of a dangerous principle rather than an urgent war-like necessity.
However, the state attorney said the incident “occurred in the most dangerous spot of all the places IDF operated at the time.”
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So true! That should apply to the 2 "youth" apparently killed by the IDF and caught in video.
The world, outside of the utopia that exists in the minds of stupid people, is a dark and ugly place. Some people have to live in that ugly world.
He also had to testify in court. Yes, he is the only one deserving sympathy here.
To the dude talking on the video: Cough, hack, spit. Get the phlegm out.
I thought they (IDF) were bulldozing a terrorist house. No matter, dead is dead.
5.56mm
Rachel is spreading herself rather thin these days. Her message is falling flat. You need 3-D glasses to visualize her position. She needs to spend more time with the press.
Wow....good video. See all the media leaches running to film the dying Pali?
Rachel “St Pancake” Corrie comprises the funniest threads on FR.
Sounds like their case fell flat.
Rules of life include:
Don’t mess with a junkyard dog.
Don’t spit into the wind.
Don’t pee on the electric fence.
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape.
Don’t mount your horse without checking the girth.
Don’t stand in the middle of the freeway.
Don’t mess with Big Bad John.
Don’t stand in front of a bulldozer....ever.
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.
What I want to know is who in the world is this clown of a father to decide what is the right to behave.
ISM lied, Corrie died.
It’s a shame her parents hadn’t the minimal amount of sense to teach their child the principle of consequences.
Well, she was on the right track!
Why this sudden craving for pancakes? Just weird!
Someone got the SCOOP on her!
But someone got the SCOOP on her
They were TRACKING her progress!
I had to look and see if someone beat me with that IHOP picture, and yup you did.
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