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2003-05-22 Fifth Column

Washington Post publishes emails of Rachel Corrie

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Posted by Scott 2003-05-22 01:31 pm|| || Front Page|| [15 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Once again, here is the Angel of Peace(tm) teaching Paleo schoolchildren how to properly burn an American flag.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-05-22 13:59:08|| 2003-05-22 13:59:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "do you think we might try to use somewhat violent means to protect the edge of the greenhouses, to protect whatever fragments remained? "

so basically shes jsutifying the murder of innocents by terrorists. Many Palestinians, including Abu Mazen, seem to be realizing that its the terrorism that CAUSES the occupation. Doesnt sound like this lady was encouraging them in that path.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 13:59:55|| 2003-05-22 13:59:55|| Front Page Top

#3 "if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible. "

The only genocide is the policy of terror to murder Jews. Its very sad indeed how the people of Gaza live, and how many have died - but its not due to any Israeli genocide. To blame the victims of terror for genocide is yes, to be filled with hate.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 14:03:04|| 2003-05-22 14:03:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I am staying put in Rafah for now, no plans to head north. I still feel like I'm relatively safe and think that my most likely risk in case of a larger-scale incursion is arrest.

Stupid. Naive. Dead.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-22 14:04:38|| 2003-05-22 14:04:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Scott, you could take selected comments from me and actually portray me in a false light: as a caring moderate over what happened to Ms. Pancake. She tried to help the Paleos protect an import point for weapons to kill innocent Israelis - She got what she wanted blessed martyrdom and 72 raisins. Compassion for useful idiots is not my style, sorry

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-22 14:05:46|| 2003-05-22 14:05:46|| Front Page Top

#6 "Contrary to what I hear ABOUT her.
I guess being a long-term conservative makes you addicted to underdogs"

I guess being a long term liberal makes me distrust people who justify terrorism because PROPERTY (eg greenhouses,etc have been destroyed)
and it makes me sympathetic to people like the IDF who override property rights for a valid public purpose (like depriving terrorists of places to hide)

oh, and it also makes me prefer law and reason and to distrust passion in politics - which distinguishes me from a radical like this, as well as from some on the far right (some on the near right would qualify as liberals in this sense - broad classical sense)

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 14:09:30|| 2003-05-22 14:09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people"

Or maybe the israeli military is not racist, and actually conducts its attacks for bona fide security reasons. Maybe the Israeli army has lots of soldiers who are a lot darker than this white girl. Maybe she should have gotten to know something about Israeli society. Maybe she should have considered becoming a human shield in a disco in Tel Aviv.

Or maybe she didnt become anti-US because of the side she took in the Israel - Pal dispute. Maybe she took the side she did because she's anti-US?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 14:17:58|| 2003-05-22 14:17:58|| Front Page Top

#8 You're either with us or with the terrorists. Corrie was with the terrorists. Good riddance.

Posted by someone 2003-05-22 14:21:37|| 2003-05-22 14:21:37|| Front Page Top

#9 After Vietnam, Watergate, Carter's 'malaise', Iran-contra, Reno's FBI (several instances), Hillary's use of FBI files, Bill's perjury and yes, even Cheney's Halliburton connection, I don't trust half of what comes out of OUR government. So I'm dang sure not gonna take at face value what Israel's Likud gov't says. I believe that Israel is systematically displacing palestinians and THAT is a major cause for palestinian terrorism. Most of those being displaced are not terrorists. I just wish the activists had the courage to do it nonviolently.

Seems to me, after all the bombings, nonviolent protest would be encouraged, even welcomed. If there is a cause for which people feel strong enough to put their life on the line, don't you want them to do it without violence?

Posted by Scott 2003-05-22 14:42:38|| 2003-05-22 14:42:38|| Front Page Top

#10 systematically displacing is incorrect - no area of Pal population has had its population removed during the current intifada. Isreali settlement activity, whether you consider it legal or illegal, is on vacant land. The terrorism started well before any Likud govt, and the current intifada started before the current Likud govt, and in fact was largely responsible for the Likud victory.

Non-violent protest would be nice, but this lady was justifying terrorism.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 14:50:39|| 2003-05-22 14:50:39|| Front Page Top

#11 If you begin an inquiry with false assumptions you are going to keep getting to false conclusions. RCorrie's assumptions going in were that Israel actually wants to invade Gaza and arbitrarily does so (not her only false assumptions). These are truly bizarre assumptions that can not be made without a bizarre world view or a desire to avoid seeing facts as they are. Notwithstanding this, many, many people have essentially the same mind set.

Posted by mhw 2003-05-22 14:52:21|| 2003-05-22 14:52:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Well put, LH. I was about to say the same thing but you beat me to it.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-05-22 14:53:00|| 2003-05-22 14:53:00|| Front Page Top

#13 im sorry travelgate has caused you to not believe the Israeli govt, but my friends in Israel are not willing to go on dying cause of that.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 14:54:51|| 2003-05-22 14:54:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Am I the only one skeptical about these e-mails? Have they been verified? Reminds me of Stern and the Hitler Diaries.

If these e-mails are legitimate, then they should be entitled "The Last E-Mails of a Misled Activist". Corrie seems oblivious to the history and context of the Mideast and instead the focus is myopic, self-centered and pollyanish.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-22 14:56:08|| 2003-05-22 14:56:08|| Front Page Top

#15 As I have said in this space, I believe Israel has God-given, UN mandated and Balfour-declared right to a homeland. My only beef is how they deal with the inhabitants. They HAVE displaced innocent paleos, and use every act of aggression against them as justification to displace more. If you can't see the immorality of it, then how about the stupidity of it. It's costing them (and us) many times more in $ and blood NOT to buy those people out.

Posted by Scott 2003-05-22 15:09:11|| 2003-05-22 15:09:11|| Front Page Top

#16 "racist tendencies not to injure white people." What a perfect example of the leftist tendency to reduce everything to race. Muslims, they want us to believe, are "brown," whereas Jews are "white." Utter rot. Even in the most racist days of America, when non-whites were largely excluded from immigrating to the US, people from the Middle East were allowed in because they were classified as Caucasians. In terms of skin color, Palestinians range from medium brown to quite light. Israeli Jews cover a broader spectrum; some of European backround are quite fair, whereas the Falashas, Jews from Ethiopia, are actually the darkest group around.

Posted by closet neo-con 2003-05-22 15:14:29|| 2003-05-22 15:14:29|| Front Page Top

#17 If there is a cause for which people feel strong enough to put their life on the line, don't you want them to do it without violence?

I think the last thing she expected to do was put her "life on the line". The only person more surprised then her to get run over by a bulldozer was probably the guy driving it.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-22 15:16:44|| 2003-05-22 15:16:44|| Front Page Top

#18 Favorite Quote: "So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible."

Oh, the irony of the phrase "I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting."

And, ColoradoConservative, I believe Klein quoted form another e-mail in her March column, and it has the same myopic, self-centered and pollyanish tone as these letters. If they are fakes, they are spot on since they highlight precisely the psychological qualities of passionate, committed protestors too immature to grant that maybe, just maybe, homicide bombing on Jews is a bad thing. (My sarcasm is not directed towards you.)

Second favorite quote: "if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people. . ."

To which I cite, again: "Thirty-two Americans, many with dual citizenship, have been killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, and 50 have been injured, since the second Palestinian uprising began in September 2000. www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc1176.html]"

Whew! That was one fucked up little girl.

Posted by FormerLiberal 2003-05-22 15:16:51|| 2003-05-22 15:16:51|| Front Page Top

#19 She didn't blow herself up but, as a fellow traveler of the Islamoterrorists, can she get honorary martyr-ette status and a chance at 72 virgins?

Posted by Ned 2003-05-22 17:34:14|| 2003-05-22 17:34:14|| Front Page Top

#20 "Dear Mom and Dad,

I hear bulldozers coming closer. I am going to go out for a second to see what is going on..."
** NO CARRIER **

Posted by badanov 2003-05-22 18:46:14|| [www.rkka.org] 2003-05-22 18:46:14|| Front Page Top

#21 Corrie was arrogant and stupid - a deadly combination. Stupidity kills, arrogance only ensures it happens sooner, rather than later.
The war in Israel has been going on for over 100 years, ever since Jews began returning to the area during the later days of the Ottoman Empire. The first Kubbutz was established in something like 1894, and suffered pogroms until independence in 1948. There is no such thing as a Palestinian people - there are only Arabs who happen to live in what they call Palestine - the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Read some of the writings of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and you'll see that Israel is under a curse of death. The only safety that Israel has is a strong military, and the ability to marginalize the terrorism within its borders. Frankly, after Hitler, after Stalin, after the Polish and Russian pogroms, and all the anti-Semitism in western Europe, I think the Jews have been too damned nice.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-05-22 20:26:13|| 2003-05-22 20:26:13|| Front Page Top

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