[Semper Paratus]

They also said they have yet to receive all of the material from the IDF investigation into the matter.

The IDF have a few more important matters on their plate at the moment.

[doug from upland]

MIDI - COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER

In a PLO town was a girl named Rachel Corrie
She was reading to children anti-American stories
She was brainwashed by mom and dad
By her college professors was had
But one day she would run out of luck and things turned out ba-a-ad

Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, you can't touch this house...I'll stand in your way
Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, Jews must be stopped...this will not be your day

She was burning our flag with the little terrorists cheering
And to the scum of the earth she became someone who's quite endearing
She was brainwashed by her mom and dad
By her college professors was had
But one day she would run out of luck and things turned out ba-a-ad

Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, you can't touch this house...I'll stand in your way
Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, Jews must be stopped...this will not be your day

You must wear a hard hat when you work around big equipment
She became a squished pancake...I hope that isn't too flippant
She was brainwashed by mom and dad
By her college professors was had
But one day she would run out of luck and things turned out ba-a-ad

Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, you can't touch this house...I'll stand in your way
Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, Jews must be stopped...this will not be your day

[middie]

U.S. law doesn't apply. The law of Israel does recognize negligence and intentional torts as legitimate legal doctrines but the Act of State and sovereign immunity doctrines create an insurmountable barrier for the young woman's family. Tecnically she was a noncombatant in an area of state v. insurgency hostilities. But her chosen course of conduct, placing herself in the arena of those hostilities, removes any protection to which she otherwise might have been entitled as a mere civilian observer. Thus, under any form of nation/state negligence law or international negligence or intentional tort theory, the family's suit is doomed to failure.

Of course, the government may choose to settle the action, but that would be a political decision totally separate from legal necessity.