Op-Ed: Honor Rachel Corrie: Serve as Human Shields - in Syria

Arutz Sheva ^ | 29/8/12 | Ron Torrosian

[Eleutheria5]

It should be said loudly, and clearly:

Rachel Corrie broke the law, and her fate was expected and inevitable. While her parents are grieving and a parent's pain is understandable, their reaction is biased and evidence of a despicable double-standard against Israel.

It’s quite amazing - just as there’s no “peace flotilla” to Syria, there are also no Rachel Corrie’s protecting the poor tortured innocent children today in Syria.

Imagine if in the midst of the war in Iraq, a foreigner entered a closed military zone and disregarded the orders of the military who was carrying out necessary maneuvers. Would anyone have been shocked if that foreigner would have been killed?

Anyone who doubts me should take a boat full of people to Guantanamo Bay, or Rikers Island in New York City. Keep going when the military tells you to stop – let me know how it goes. If you survive, that is. Would any US court even hear a case of someone killed after entering a closed military zone?

The case of Rachel Corrie is very clear

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Corrie’s father, Craig has been carrying - all over Israel - pictures of the Palestinian girl, then 6, whose family’s house was ostensibly behind Ms. Corrie - a disputed fact to begin with - when she was killed. The man should continue his daughter’s legacy - and go to Syria to protect 6-year old children’s homes there now.

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[Eleutheria5]

Parenthetically, are these the wealthy, suicidal Corries whose great grandad Richard's suicide was memorialized by Edgar Lee Masters, later by Simon and Garfunkle?

[Steely Tom]

You mean “Fifty Ways To Get Flattened By A Bulldozer” ?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Human shields against two factions that have no value for any human life other than their own is a worthwhile endeavor for any liberal. I encourage all of them to become human bullet catchers.

[History Repeats]

Shield?

Sounds like she’s more of a throw rug actually.

[soycd]

The Corie kind are the ones who go hiking in Iran and wind up costing us a few million every time long before they do something that makes them a useful idiot.

[theDentist]

We can discuss it at the Annual Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast.

[Billthedrill]

Flounder on flatbread for me, please!

[windsorknot]

Rage Against the Machine

[Emperor Palpatine]

No.

“Bridge Over Troubled Pancakes”

[Eleutheria5]

Edward Arlington Robinson. My bad.

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes, richer than a king –
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Here’s Simon & Garfunkle in 1966 singing their rendition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuCiSY0qYs

I used to see trucks in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a Corie insignia on the cab door, making deliveries, back when I worked there.

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[TigersEye]

I have no idea what you're talking about so
here's a bunny with Rachel Corrie on its head.

[kenavi]

I used to see trucks in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a Corie insignia on the cab door, making deliveries, back when I worked there.

I assumed then that you "cursed the life" you were living, and that you cursed your poverty, and wished you could be...Richard Corie?

Or maybe you didn't?

[Iron Munro]

[Kozy]

Now if we could only get the rest of her family out of the gene pol. That would be perfect,

[History Repeats]

From what I’ve heard about her she was flat out wrong.

[Eleutheria5]

I was only 23 and engaged to be married. The poverty came later.

[Eleutheria5]

Whenever Rachel Corie hung around,
We people in the tunnels looked at her:
She was one ugly b@#$ from sole to crown,
Bad flavored, and imperially dim.

And she was always noisily displayed,
And she was always addled when she talked;
But still she held those signs up when she said,
“no further!,” and she babeled when she fought.

And she was bitchy – yes, bitchier than a queen –
An adamant, a fool with ugly face:
In fine, we thought that she was everything
To make us wonder when she’d leave this place.

So on we worked, and waited for green light,
And smuggled ‘neath the street, and cursed the Jooos!;
And Rachel Corie, one calm spring-time day,
Sat down, got flattened and got on the news.

[Slings and Arrows]

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