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Israeli court: American protester Rachel Corrie's death an accident

every state in the world encourages their soldiers to fight against enemies,but they also teach their soldiers to identify combatants from civilians...Use of appropriate,proportionate force and to avoid unnecessary loss of life..
These things aren't taught to Israeli army,or so it seems..
They always act like crazed blood thirsty monsters...

Hha! Like Syrian army? like Iranian? and many more.

What you say makes no sense, whatsoever. :blink:

Maybe it is time to check your sarcasm-meter
 
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she shouldn't be there in the first place...

there's other safer ways to protest and share your views and thoughts.... being in front of bulldozers is not one of them.

So her punishment is death right? Death by bulldozer at that. :cheesy:
 
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U.S is ready to sacrifice 300 million Americans for 'security' of Israel,so I don't think U.S government would give a crap.
Even if Israel kills whole residents of a city,they would still find an excuse for it,like they were protectim themselves from kids or women screaming and the most dangerous part,men throwing stones at them.
 
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That is a lame argument...
How does Holocaust come in the picture?

I aint arguing with you. Israel is privileged. They have money, they rule USA. They have holocaust, nobody dares to judge them.

What you say makes no sense, whatsoever. :blink:

If you kill and walk away and nobody has power to bring you to the court, you are privileged.

In Pakistan, a Politician is not a politician unless he bashes the military on just about anything.

I wish my country gives the same importance to the persons who sacrifice themselves for my country. My country punishes the ones who love the country, not who hate the country.
 
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U.S is ready to sacrifice 300 million Americans for 'security' of Israel,so I don't think U.S government would give a crap.
Even if Israel kills whole residents of a city,they would still find an excuse for it,like they were protectim themselves from kids or women screaming and the most dangerous part,men throwing stones at them.
Cut ur lame propaganda. US wont sacrifice even one person for Israel. But US citizens free to do what they like. Some go to Afghanistan to fight for Taliban terrorists, others go to Gaza to fight for Hamas terrorists. The only difference is that those who go to Afghanistan are prosecuted and tortured in Guantanamo and those who go to Gaza get media support.
 
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Cut ur lame propaganda. US wont sacrifice even one person for Israel. But US citizens free to do what they like. Some go to Afghanistan to fight for Taliban terrorists, others go to Gaza to fight for Hamas terrorists. The only difference is that those who go to Afghanistan are prosecuted and tortured in Guantanamo and those who go to Gaza get media support.

This is the problem, I can understand Israelis to what it takes to survive, but come on,not everyone in GAZA is a terrorist, Even in Afghanistan not everyone is Taliban. I am sure Rachel Corrie was not a sympathizer for HAMAS but the Palestinian people.
 
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Rachel Corrie Died for Her Parents’ Sins
An Israeli court has found that the death of the International Solidarity Movement activist was an accident.

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ABRAHAM H. MILLER

September 3, 2012 - 12:07 am

After a lengthy trial, an Israeli court found that the death of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie was an accident. Rachel Corrie’s death was an accident, but it was not a tragedy. The tragedy is to be seen in the deaths of all the other Rachels — there are about a dozen of them — and the hundreds of other innocents who died at the hands of the people Rachel Corrie was trying to protect. Rachel Corrie was a willing and active accomplice helping people bent on committing mass murder. If her intended victims were not Jews, the world would not be beatifying her as some sort of saintly peace activist.

The entire Rachel Corrie episode is an encounter with the absurd. Corrie joined the anarchist International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which takes naïve leftists like Corrie and puts them in dangerous situations with the hope that their death or injury will make them poster children for the Palestinian cause. The ISM does not support a two-state solution. The only outcome it envisages to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is the destruction of the Jewish state and, of course, with it, the Jews. The ISM makes no secret of its goals and aspirations. When Corrie signed on to go to the war zone known as Gaza and stand in front of Israeli bulldozers that were destroying tunnels and homes being used to smuggle and store arms and munitions designed to kill Jews, she knew she was helping mass murderers.

Corrie stood in front of a bulldozer whose uplifted blade made it impossible for the driver to see her. She was simply too close to the bulldozer to be in the field of vision, like being too close to an SUV backing up in reverse. By the time Corrie realized that the bulldozer was not going to stop, she started moving backward and fell into a trench, which the bulldozer drove over causing her to be crushed by the falling dirt. Her death was exactly the kind of event the ISM wanted: an American student dying at the hands of a bulldozer operated by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Since her death, Corrie’s activist, militant, and Israeli-bashing parents have transformed her death into a cottage industry. The Corries can be seen making the rounds of the liberal churches talking about the Palestinian cause and how the Israelis maliciously killed their daughter. For audiences predisposed to hate Israel and support the Palestinians as an oppressed people, the Corries and their “martyred” daughter comprise a saga that reinforces their jaundiced views.

It is not just the liberal churches that venerate the Corries. Yasser Arafat, too, showered them with adulation for donating their daughter to the cause. Just as their daughter put her life at risk to help mass murderers, the parents stand for photo ops with people who speak of past crimes against Jews and openly boast of those they are about to commit.

The Corries have learned nothing from their daughter’s experience. Mrs. Corrie openly brags of two nieces who are active members of the ISM, and she hopes their activism will emulate her daughter’s.

Clearly, the Corries are trying to expiate their own guilt. What parents encourage their daughter to go into a war zone to stand before bulldozers that are trying to protect innocent people by destroying tunnels and buildings used to transfer munitions for suicide bombers? What parents encourage their child to join an anarchist organization that thrives on placing the naïve in harm’s way while lusting after the inevitable and ensuing propaganda benefit from their death and injury? Did the Corries hate Jews more than they loved their child?

It is as if through speaking engagements and appearance at cinema and stage performances about their daughter, the Corries have not only helped perpetuate the myth of Saint Rachel, the peace activist, but also absolved themselves of any responsibility for their daughter’s death.

Rachel’s parents filed a suit in Israeli court against the Israeli Defense Forces for being responsible for their daughter’s death. Now, let’s think a moment about this picture. Is there any other country in the Middle East, or in the world for that matter, where your daughter can stand in a war zone and have no expectation that harm will come to her? The ISM has sent no one to Syria to protect its citizens from the murderous Bashar Assad. The ISM has sent no one to Egypt to protect Christians and secularists from the murderous zealotry of the Muslim Brotherhood. The ISM does not stand in the streets of Saudi Arabia and campaign for an end to gender apartheid. The ISM is not standing in the streets of Tehran demonstrating against Iran’s nuclear program. Only in Israel does the ISM believe it has a right to enter a war zone and interfere with a country’s military operations. And only in Israel does it somehow have a right to go into court and sue the state for conduct that would earn it a bullet in most Middle East countries. To add insult to injury, it is Hillary Clinton’s State Department that is assisting the Corries in this exercise in the absurd.

I doubt if the Corries ever thought they had a case. The trial and the verdict were merely a means for the Corries to do what they do best — to mobilize the Israel-bashing left and its sycophants in the press to further attack the Jewish state. If an Israeli court ruled against the IDF, which it indeed has done in some cases, then that would have been a further testimony to the beatification of Rachel Corrie. And if, as predicted, the court ruled against the Corries, that would have provided a means to further push Saint Rachel into the headlines and for such rags as the Guardian to spill their anti-Semitic bile. Indeed, the Guardian condemned the verdict, calling it a further whitewash of the tragedy. The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood brought to her analysis the fatuous, progressive cliché about the cycle of violence, as if destroying a house that stores weapons and munitions for killing civilians is the moral equivalent of using those weapons and munitions to blow up a pizza parlor.

It would seem to me that if you go out in a combat zone and stand in front of a bulldozer, especially one with its blade raised, maybe you’re responsible for your own stupidity and the harm that comes to you. And, perhaps, the militant and activist parents who encouraged you to be there are also responsible.

What are the Corries due? They’re due the same concern and compassion they have shown to the victims of the suicide bombers their daughter was enabling. To date, that has been nothing, not so much as an iota of regret, compassion, or condolence. And of the dozen or so Jewish Rachels that have been killed by suicide bombers, the leftist media has not found one worthy of the adulation that it has conferred on the naïve girl who stood in front of a bulldozer to enable mass murderers to carry out their operations.

If the Corries want to comprehend who really is responsible for their daughter’s death, they should start by first looking in the mirror and then convincing their nieces not to follow in Rachel’s footsteps. Of course, we know that would be terribly unlike the Corries, for it would deny them the veneration they have discovered for themselves and which they so desperately need to give some meaning to the death of a daughter who sought to enable mass murderers.

Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science and a former head of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association.
 
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Why am i not surprised? A guilty verdict would have opened a can of warms for the IDF. Other activists whom have been wounded or relatives of activists killed would have rushed to file law suits against IDF. Israeli judges made the right call for their country by issuing a verdict against it. Israel is one of the biggest culprits of human rights violations against the Palestinians, the deliberate policy of turning of Gaza into a massive ghetto is a crime against humanity. But as the old saying goes, 'Might is Right'.
 
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Why am i not surprised? A guilty verdict would have opened a can of warms for the IDF.
Doubtful, as the IDF puts its "worms" on display. Do you think justice is a matter of verdicts or process?

Israel is one of the biggest culprits of human rights violations against the Palestinians -
It would be more accurate to claim that Israel treats Palestinian Arabs better than any other country in the middle east.

the deliberate policy of turning of Gaza into a massive ghetto is a crime against humanity.
It's not Israel's fault that the Arabs of Gaza cannot re-settle in other Arab countries, is it? And since many of them are descendants of those who, goaded by their leaders, chose armed rebellion rather than peaceful coexistence with Jews, it is difficult to argue that they have any legal or moral claim to re-settle in Israel itself.

as the old saying goes, 'Might is Right'.
Israelis and Jews wish it were otherwise and do their best to set an example of this - something people like yourself seek to deny. Do you know why that is?
 
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Doubtful, as the IDF puts its "worms" on display. Do you think justice is a matter of verdicts or process?

They have no choice since these worms usually get caught on tape.

It would be more accurate to claim that Israel treats Palestinian Arabs better than any other country in the middle east.

Hahahhaha was that supposed to be a joke because i am laughing very hard. Just a couple of days ago i read that a 17 year old kid was almost beaten to death for being a Palestinian by a b Israeli thugs. Discrimination against Arabs inside Israel is systemic and institutional, its not my opinion but the opinion of the UN. Please feel free to go through these links:

UN: Israel must stop discrimination against Arabs, Palestinians - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

It's not Israel's fault that the Arabs of Gaza cannot re-settle in other Arab countries, is it? And since many of them are descendants of those who, goaded by their leaders, chose armed rebellion rather than peaceful coexistence with Jews, it is difficult to argue that they have any legal or moral claim to re-settle in Israel itself.

I know right, its the fault of the Arabs that they have been living on these lands for centuries. They should pack up and make room for European and Russian Jews whom immigrated and wanted to settle on these lands because they were kicked out of Europe and Russia, after all these immigrants have moral and legal claims on these lands because they brought a huge gun with them to have their demands enforced :).

Israelis and Jews wish it were otherwise and do their best to set an example of this - something people like yourself seek to deny. Do you know why that is?

Please don't bother, after what you claimed in your last paragraph, i doubt i have the capacity to listen to your hypocritical statements. The only example the Israelis have managed to setup is how to kill innocent and defenceless civilians, the sheer number of civilians killed intentionally and Israel's deliberate policy of collective punishment against civilians speak for themselves.
 
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Discrimination against Arabs inside Israel is systemic and institutional
Yet they prefer to live inside Israel.
I know right, its the fault of the Arabs that they have been living on these lands for centuries. They should pack up and make room for European and Russian Jews
Pfff. For centuries Arab population of Palestine did not exceed 300 thousands. Today its 5.4 million and keeps rapidly growing.
 
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Rachel Corrie Died for Her Parents’ Sins
An Israeli court has found that the death of the International Solidarity Movement activist was an accident.

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...That article doesn't help your cause. First, there's this awful undertone in the article implying those who protest against Israel deserves the same fate as Rachel Corrie.

It's even worse, when the article comes from a "professor" using such partisan language, which only belongs in the putrid mess that is American politics, ranting against people he doesn't like. He's speaking with his heart, not his mind.
 
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