Me either. I expect she's very conflicted about her son's death. His volunteering for the Army (twice) was a rejection of her most strongly held convictions. It would be (relatively) like one of my sons rejecting our faith and becoming an abortionist, I imagine.
I think you're right that whoever is directing her has noticed that the message is not longer playing well with the public. (Think the FReep helped? :-). These people seem to think that their ravings aren't being seen or heard by anyone other than their own True Believers; we're shocked, shocked to find the anti-Israel rant in general distribution! They just don't get the free speech thing at all.
I started wondering last night about exactly when and how the liberals became so anti-Semitic. Whenever it happened, it was much before my time.
"His volunteering for the Army (twice) was a rejection of her most strongly held convictions."
I think you hit the psychological nail on the head right there.
She can't very well give her boy the "I told you so" treatment now so she's displacing her 'power over/control freak' anger by doing this.
She is "punishing" him vicariously by dishonoring his memory.
Her son [God rest his soul and bless him] apparently turned out well in spite of having her for a mother.