Comments on: For many Israelis, Rachel Corrie was a nuisance

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:34:51 +0000

Hahahaha. M’kay. Love your righteous indignation covering up an inability to reply. Have a wonderful day!

By: JG

JG — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:04:26 +0000

There is and there will never be discussion from my side with hasbara-bots. Deal with it

By: sh

sh — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:19:37 +0000

What Georges Ibrahim Abdullah has to do with Corrie is difficult to discern, but bear in mind that the very person who led the investigation that led to Abdullah’s arrest in the 1980s agrees that he had already served his sentence 13 years ago and should long have been released. Protesting unjustified imprisonment because France is being pressured by the USA to continue to old him is not being pro-terrorist. Like ‘em or hate ‘em this does not prove that ISM supports terrorism.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:38:36 +0000

The United States had slaves; not now. It had Jim Crow; not now. It’s time to find a way to move beyond these things.

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:26:17 +0000

Either a nuisance or an enemy. Given that she was ISM, an organization explicitly dedicated to anti-Israel activism in support of Palestinian terrorism, I would put her in the latter category. As such, I have no sympathy for St. Pancake or any of her dead and suffering fellow travelers.

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:22:39 +0000

Fascinating. Please extrapolate how a diaspora armchair-wannabe-IDF fanboy can be a threat for Israel.

By: JG

JG — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:14:47 +0000

Diaspora armchair-wannabe-IDF fanboys like you are a greater thread for Israel than thousand Rachel Corries will ever be.

By: Laurent Szyster

Laurent Szyster — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:36:53 +0000

After so many wars, thousands of deads and injured, why can’t Israelis care about the moronic “martyrdom” of an hysteric “antizionist” activist in Gaza ?

I have no stupid answer to offer for that idiotic question.

But things like the support to George Ibrahim Abdallah by ISM-France may give you a clue why diaspora Jews like me would be glad to beat the antisemitic shit out of those hypocrits.

By: Bluegrass Picker of Afula

Bluegrass Picker of Afula — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:34:06 +0000

So, Mr Greg Pollack, how much resistance are ==you== willing to welcome to…. your occupation of the home of an indigenous person? Please measure that out for us. Can the tribes people stone your kids as they walk to school? Will you give us at least that? Or is it not a problem anymore because y’all COMPLETED the genocide? Maybe I can learn from your strategy!!

By: Guy Montag

Guy Montag — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:00:30 +0000

“In a country where the military is considered sacred and investigates itself … could one have seriously expected a different outcome?”

Like Pat Tillman’s 2004 friendly-fire death, the nature of Yoni Netanyahu’s 1976 death at Entebbe was covered up the IDF. Yoni and Pat Tillman were eerily similar characters, both driven by a sense of integrity, honesty and conviction. As was Rachel Corrie, who was Pat Tillman’s hero.

In his mother’s book, “Boots on the Ground by Dusk,” Mary Tillman wrote: “I remember picking up the article [about Rachel Corrie’s death] from the same spot more than a year ago [in 2003] and asking Pat, “Who’s this?” “That’s my hero,” Pat said. “She was a stud; she had a lot of guts.”

It’s ironic that while Rachel was a hero to Pat Tillman, she is viewed with contempt by Yoni’s family. Iddo Netanyahu said that he feels “that there is an inherent incompatibility in the joining together, in one evening, of a play based on my brother Yoni’s letters [“To Pay the Price”] with the play ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie.”

[For more, see the June 2010 post, “That’s My Hero”: Pat Tillman, Rachel Corrie, and Yoni Netanyahu, posted at the feralfirefighter blog]