They Are Us, We Are Them: Remembering Rachel Corrie

[red dog 1]

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]

1. I don't think more than 40 or 50 Americans even know who RC was...

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]

2. Tasteless. n/t

[King_David]

3. Truth though. nt

[shira]

7. From the lawyer representing Rachel Corrie's parents' in their civil case vs. Israel....

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

[Little Tich]

13. It's extremely impolite to mock the dead, I hope you'll understand that when you grow up. n/t

[shira]

8. Best for you to lay low on Rachel Corrie altogether...

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]

14. I hope you understand that you're attacking the views of other people than Rachel Corrie.

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

[shira]

17. They're all ISM, like Corrie was. All supporters & enablers of terror.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/04/17/is-the-international-solidarity-movement-pro-terrorist/
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]

9. I did see on grossprofit link this interesting pic of her:

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]

10. Not a good role model for the kids surrounding her.

Peace activists don't do that.

[King_David]

11. Especially burning an American flag,

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

Fuck that .

[red dog 1]

15. + 1

[King_David]

16. Here's a pic for you of Rachel Corrie:

[grossproffit]

4. Just another "freedom fighter."

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



Many are familiar with her and her...activities.

[shira]

6. The ISM is a particularly nasty pro-terror organization Corrie belonged to.

Thanks for that article.

[tonedevil]

18. Some of us do remember...

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

[King_David]

19. Huh ?

I find this post of yours disgusting.

Here's a pic of her I found burning an American Flag :

[tonedevil]

20. Please continue your enthusatic...

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

[King_David]

21. .

[Israeli]

5. She is remembered by everyone who ....

....fights the occupation red dog 1.

see :
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1316-remembering-rachel-corrie

[King_David]

12. You're a spokeswoman for everyone who opposes the occupation?

LOL

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

[red dog 1]

24. Why don't the citizens of Israel demand new elections and throw Netanyahu out?

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]

29. I remember her the late Alan Rickman's play My name is Rachel Corrie

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]

22. Not sure why burning an American flag is a capital offense for some.

Weird.

[Israeli]

23. Getting that way for us too Bok_Tukalo.......

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.710735

[shira]

25. That picture puts the lie to Corrie being a peace activist.

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]

26. There's this too.

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

[ericson00]

28. well said. She's no better than a jihadist suicider

n/t

[grossproffit]

27. Not for some, for many.