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
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>
> 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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