Posted on 03/12/2012 5:22:22 AM PDT by SJackson
March 16 is the anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death. She is the American college student killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza while attempting to block a house demolition. Israeli authorities claim that the driverwas unable to see Corrie, given the restricted vision from his perch, and that she acted recklessly by inserting herself into the path of the bulldozer. But as always happens in the Middle East, lies trumped truth.
The Corrie myth has been one of the most powerful tools in the anti-Israel propaganda campaign. She inspired literary works, boycotts and political memorials all around the world. Her story constituted bad press for Israel that was even worse than the fabricated martyrdom of Mohammed al-Dura.
A few days ago, a lawsuit seeking to overturn Olympia food co-op’s boycott of Israeli goods was dismissed in Washington’s Superior Court. Olympia is the hometown of Rachel Corrie. After her death, Caterpillar has been targeted by a series of initiatives and even the Church of England divested from the company. Fatah mourned Corrie as “the martyr of freedom and peace,” Hamas adopted her face as a mascot and Iran named a street after her.
The mythology presented Corrie as “a peaceful protester,” “a young woman who had dedicated her life to the non-violent defense of others” and as “a new Joan of Arc.” One Gazaflotilla ship was named after her. She was not just an unarmed, idealistic Western girl.
However, Corrie was in the Gaza Strip to serve as a human shield for the Arab terrorist campaign. Her death constituted a devastating blow to Israel’s policy against the terrorists. In Gaza, Israel destroyed homes hiding tunnels used as conduits for weapons, or the homes of Palestinian suicide bombers responsible for slaughtering innumerable civilians. After Corrie’s death, this policy became more difficult to pursue and rarer.
A Martyr and Hero Meanwhile, Corrie became a martyr and hero. Her hagiography has been exploited by anti-Semites all over the world. For zealots of chaos, Corrie’s death helped to denigrate the State of Israel and its people for their simple desire to stay alive. At Evergreen State University, her professors wore khakis and kaffiyehs at graduation ceremonies.
For Western media, NGOs, legal forums, the United Nations, some churches and ordinary public opinion it was very easy to mythicize the American girl and forget the Israeli Rachels: Rachel Teller, blown up in a shopping mall; Rachel Levy, blown up in a grocerystore; Rachel Levi, shot while waiting for the bus; Rachel Gavish, killed with her husband, son and father while celebrating a Passover meal; Rachel Shabo, murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 16 while at home.
Let’s hope that one day these Western peaceniks will ride on Israeli buses to experience the homicidal fear of terrorist attacks, or demonstrate on the streets of Haifa and Sderot, destroyed by rockets. Yet until that day comes, we can say that the human rights industry is rooted in the equality of humankind, with the exception of the Jews.
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Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com
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And Sandra Fluke was not just a Georgetown co-ed .... the Leftist mythologists are still at work.
I feel no excitement over the anniversary of her death. It just leaves me flat.
Anybody know how to post a pic of a pancake?
Oy! Pancake jokes to begin.
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I think Denny’s is running a special.
Note to self: This Friday, pancakes for breakfast.
I still crack up when I remember they held her “memorial breakfast” at an Ihop.
Someone said he was going to show up, order some raspberry pancakes and put a Tonka bulldozer on the stack.
I live in Seattle, I should find out if her parents buried her somewhere down near Olympia where they are from so I can go piss on her grave.
Rachel Corrie died in a Palestinian hospital. If he had been taked to an Israeli hospital she might still be alive. She was not “run over” by a bulldozer, she hit her head against the blade when she fell into its path. Her wounds might not have proven fatal, even in the absence of medical attention. Given a little push from Palestinian “doctors”, she never had a chance. She was worth much more to the Palestinians dead than alive.
She should be the face for the Darwin Awards. Who in their right mind lays down in front of a bulldozer?
When Israel flattens Iran, they'll know where to start. Operation IHOP.
She’s in Greenlawn, plots 117, 118, 119 and 120.
[2003] As they gathered downtown earlier this week to protest the war in Iraq, a motley group of students and activists busily readied the tricks of their trade.
A couple of men gingerly laid on the sidewalk two cardboard “caskets” topped with plastic flowers and the bloodied heads and body parts of baby dolls.
A man wearing a white Cheshire cat mask hung a severed fake head of Vice President Dick Cheney, with a “666” scribbled on its forehead and plastic sword speared into the top.
A young woman expertly dabbed white and black makeup on a young man’s face to evoke an image of a ghoulish skeleton.
But the leader of the pack simply donned his professor’s gown.
“This is a mock funeral for the innocent victims of the war against Iraq, and this was the closest thing I had to a minister’s gown,” University of Houston professor Bob Buzzanco quipped about the black robe with royal blue felt stripes that UH had given him to wear at graduation ceremonies.
The attire seemed fitting. As student activism continues to wane at many of America’s campuses, professors such as Buzzanco increasingly find themselves playing dual roles of teachers and political organizers.
“If you turn back the clock 30 years, you find that the students were doing the organizing, but now they tend to not be so interested in that,” said Roger Kimball, author of Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education and editor of New Criterion magazine..........................
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