[lbo-talk] revolting piece about Rachel Corrie

D F Cornwell dorenefc at aol.com
Mon Mar 8 15:14:56 PST 2004


I say, it does take something to be so odious that the US Embassy beels obliged to opine.

DoreneC

Doug Henwood wrote on 3/8/2004, 1:22 PM:

> Jerusalem Post - March 1, 2004

>

> <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1078113575924&p=1006953079865>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1078113575924&p=1006953079865

>

>

> A 'tribute' to Rachel Corrie

> Ruhama Shattan

>

> March 16 is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to

> thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza,

> via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died

> defending.

>

> Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom

> ö oops, death ö have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up

> city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in

> Jerusalem, killing men, women, and schoolchildren (two of them

> classmates of my daughter and her friend in the February 22, 2004

> bombing), and leaving hundreds more widows, orphans, and bereaved

> parents.

>

> On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie

> for showing Palestinian children how to despise America as she

> snarled, burned an American flag, and led them in chanting slogans,

> and as she gave "evidence" at a Young Palestinian Parliament mock

> trial finding President Bush guilty of crimes against humanity.

>

> Perhaps her help in fanning the flames of violent anti-American

> sentiment led to the October 2003 bombing of the Fulbright delegation

> to Gaza to interview scholarship candidates, killing three. There

> will be no new crop of Palestinian Fulbright scholars this fall.

>

> ON THE first anniversary of her death, I wanted to thank Rachel

> Corrie for providing her organization, the Palestinian-sponsored

> International Solidarity Movement, with the opportunity to release a

> manipulated photo sequence "showing" an Israeli military bulldozer

> deliberately crushing her. (I would also like to thank AP and The

> Christian Science Monitor for taking up the baton and immortalizing

> this cynical ISM stunt.)

>

> On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie

> for showing the way to all those who seek peace in the Middle East.

> Unfortunately, Corrie's peace, as anyone familiar with the PLO,

> Fatah, Hamas, and Hizbullah organizations that she defended with her

> life knows ö or as anyone familiar with the weekly rants of the

> Friday preachers in the Palestinian mosques is aware ö means not

> peaceful coexistence but the elimination of the State of Israel, and

> death to those they call "the usurping Jews, the sons of apes and

> pigs."

>

> Thank you, Rachel Corrie, of Evergreen State University, where the

> profs wear khakis and keffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing

> us what peace really means.

>

> The writer is a translator, editor, and writer who has lived in

> Israel since 1976.

>

> ----

>

> US Embassy accuses J'Post of publishing ''hateful incitement''

> March 06, 2004

> By Warrick Page for IMEMC

>

> The US Embassy condemned the Jerusalem Post in a letter to the editor

> on Wednesday, saying an editorial written about the first anniversary

> of Rachel Corrie's death, was "nothing less than a hateful

> incitement".

>

> The editorial, written by Ruhama Shattan, "thanks" Ms Corrie - a US

> peace activist killed in Rafah on March 16 last year - for

> "defending" the arms-smuggling tunnels in Gaza and "for showing

> Palestinian children how to despise America".

>

> The response from the US Embassy, written by Paul Patin, said, "The

> author's disgusting abuse of the anniversary of the death of this

> American citizen is inexcusable".

>

> Ms Corrie came to the country to volunteer with activist group the

> International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in March 2003 and was crushed

> by a bulldozer while trying to prevent a housing demolition in Rafah

> refugee camp, Gaza Strip.

>

> According to Ms Shattan, Ms Corrie "perhaps" helped fan the flames

> "of violent anti-American sentiment led to the October 2003 bombing

> of the Fulbright delegation to Gaza".

>

> "Corrie's peace . . . means not peaceful coexistence," Ms Shattan

> wrote, "but the elimination of the State of Israel, and death to

> those they call "the usurping Jews, the sons of apes and pigs'."

>

> Ms Shattan concluded Ms Corrie was a willing martyr and that her

> activism worked under the auspicious of terrorist networks - if not

> to assist them knowingly - albeit indirectly.

>

> Ms Shattan also "thanked" Ms Corrie for "providing" ISM with the

> "opportunity to release a manipulated photo sequence `showing' an

> Israeli military bulldozer deliberately crushing her" and included

> the Associated Press and Christian Science Monitor for "taking up the

> baton and immortalising this cynical ISM stunt".

>

> Mr Patin said, "The article reflects a level of discourse unbefitting

> any serious newspaper" and the US Embassy was "disappointed" they had

> chosen to publish the article.

>

> ISM has requested space in the Jerusalem Post to respond to the

> allegations and did not rule out the possibility of legal action

> should their request be denied.

>

>

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