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Originally posted by sugar and spice
I think that the difference between the 9/11 suicide bombers and Rachel Corrie is that Rachel didn't kill anyone but herself. And that's a big difference.
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How much do you know about this Rachel Corrie exactly? Honestly, not much. You know very little about the "organization" she was involved with. I was going to write the details out but my friend Raphael has written rather eloquently on this and it will save me time:
Rachel Corrie was in the Palestinian territories as a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led self-styled "peace" movement ostensibly devoted to non-violent action against what it terms "illegal Israeli occupation forces and policies."
But whatever the ISM's non-violent credo, the organization openly sympathizes with the Palestinian campaign of terror against Israeli civilians to the point where the organization routinely provides moral and material support to the families of suicide bombers, with some members even "spending the night" at their houses. The ISM systematically refuses to condemn Palestinian violence even as it rails against Israeli efforts to curb it, displaying a kind moral myopia that has earned it the nickname "Idiots Supporting Monsters."
Most disturbingly, the two British suicide bombers, who murdered three people in cold blood at Mike's Place in April, were known to ISM circles in Rafah, having even attended a memorial service for Rachel Corrie at the very spot where she died before setting off on their murderous mission to Tel Aviv.
Of course, the ISM's particularly vicious brand of political naivete espoused by Rachel Corrie did not warrant her death, but it does go a long way towards explaining what she might have been doing throwing herself under a Israeli bulldozer trying to demolish smugglers' tunnels. Seen in this light, the unfortunate death of a misguided "peace" activist cannot be seen as an example of Israeli cowardice and cruelty, but rather as a symbol of the selective blindness that afflicts many on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate. What is needed is not simply restraint, but good faith dialogue, and, above all, an honest examination of the facts.
-Rudey
--Peace activist my ass.
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