Judge Absolves IDF For Rachel Corrie’s Death
August 28, 2012 16:42 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Absolving the IDF of responsibility for Rachel Corrie’s death, an Israeli civilian court rejected a lawsuit brought by her parents. This Jerusalem Post snippet sums up what you need to know:
Saying that Corrie could have avoided danger, he dismissed claims that the IDF was negligent in the incident. The IDF did not violate Corrie’s right to life, he continued, asserting that she inserted herself into a dangerous situation.
The state, he continued, was not responsible for any “damages caused” due to the combat situation but nonetheless called Corrie’s death a “regrettable accident.”
In his verdict, Judge Gershon also criticized the United States for not sending a diplomatic representative to observe the autopsy conducted on Corrie.
2. The PA’s unhappy with Mohammed Morsi. Ramallah isn’t feeling the love, reports Asharq al-Awsat:
The Egyptian leadership “is dealing with Hamas as if it is the representative of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ignoring the role of the Palestinian Authority (PA)”. The sources added: “Egypt is negotiating with the Hamas government about security affairs, the Rafah crossing and conditions relating to the people, including issues of electricity, medicine, smuggling tunnels and commercial traffic”.
Israel would be slammed if it pursued a three-state solution, but Tehran and Cairo don’t mind moving that way.
3. Wall St. Journal: An Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander gave the clearest indication so far that the group’s active in Syria:
“Today we are involved in fighting every aspect of a war, a military one in Syria and a cultural one as well,” Gen. Salar Abnoush, commander of IRGC’s Saheb al-Amr unit, told volunteer trainees in a speech Monday. The comments, reported by the Daneshjoo news agency, which is run by regime-aligned students, couldn’t be independently verified. Top Iranian officials had previously said the country isn’t involved in the conflict.
Rachel Corrie Verdict
• I’m not going to rehash years-old arguments about what the bulldozer driver woulda/coulda/shoulda seen. But if Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow is questioning the integrity of Judge Oded Gershon and the Israeli court, that’s something I have an issue with. What does he find grim?
• Regarding the court’s credibility, I’ll quote the Daily Telegraph‘s Con Coughlin:
So far as rabid anti-Zionists are concerned, the fact that the law suit brought by Miss Corrie’s distraught family has been dismissed after due consideration by Israel’s judicial system – which is based very much on the principles of British law – will not prevent the howls of protest emanating from those who simply cannot accept that Israel is a democratic country based on the rule of law.
• Brendan O’Neill (Daily Telegraph) brutally takes down Palestine solidarity’s cult of St. Rachel:
The transformation of Corrie’s life and death into a black-and-white morality tale – featuring a well-off white American who was pure of heart, poor little brown people who have no hope, and a Zionist entity that is supremely evil – sums up the boneheadedness of modern-day Palestinian solidarity. There was a time when supporting Palestine meant looking upon Palestinians as a people capable of governing their own lives, even of running their own state, free from the meddling or bossing-about of outsiders.
Now, Palestinian solidarity is all about treating Palestinians as the ultimate victims, as helpless, hapless, sad-eyed creatures who need decent Westerners, ideally well-educated ones brought up in Amnesty-supporting households, to come over and “save” them, in a not dissimilar way to how Bible-wielding white folk once tried to saved the savages of Africa.
Rachel Corrie
• Lead Screed: Chris McGreal, The Guardian‘s former Israel correspondent, weighs in:
But the difficulty lies in what then to call the Israeli army when it, too, at particular times and places, has used indiscriminate killing and terror as a means of breaking Palestinian civilians. One of those places was Rafah, in the southern tip of the Gaza strip, where Rachel Corrie was crushed by a military bulldozer nine years ago as she tried to stop the Israeli army going about its routine destruction of Palestinian homes.
An Israeli judge on Tuesday perpetuated the fiction that Corrie’s death was a terrible accident and upheld the results of the military’s own investigation, widely regarded as such a whitewash . . .
• In all the online buzz, The Muqata remembers The Forgotten Rachels.
Brad Naksuthin
4:56 pm
Aug 28, 2012
Rachel Corrie got what she deserved.
Any American who goes over to help terrorists deserves whatever they get.
The Jews are God’s chosen people….over ALL other nations…even the United States.
God chose them thousands of years ago and blessed them.
God gave them the land of Israel as their homeland.
Anyone else living there needs to be driven out.
Rachel Corrie was working AGAINST GOD.
And the Israelis were right to end her life in order to Protect their God Given lands in the holiest part of the world.
Christians everywhere rejoice. Israel has been protected. And a rabble rouser has been silenced
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NoCrud
8:04 pm
Aug 28, 2012
If this were a ball game, I’d say you have covered all the bases.
I am sure that the IDF/Israeli forces did not target Rachel Corrie specifically but she put herself in harm’s way by choice. If she had done it by any kind of force or coercion, then there would perhaps remain an excuse for what she did. The judge’s decision was no doubt based on all available information and, again, cannot be faulted for his decision.
Penalty for crimes should be justified by full payment for a crime. No more, no less. Never designed to be a deterrent. If this causes others to avoid committing crimes, it’s icing on the cake. Let’s hope this has the same effect with others who would be a Rachel Corrie.
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Steven Muller
11:11 pm
Aug 28, 2012
I believe Mr. “Naksuthin” and his posting are a fraud. Nobody actually thinks like that. It does however, fit the anti-Semitic stereotype of how Jews think and the demonization of “Zionists” and their government. Israel is a democracy. There is no history or other examples of the Israeli government having a policy of killing protestors. Arab states, however, do it all the time, so it would be perfectly logical to an Arab zealot to project the capability of that kind of action on to Israelis.
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NoCrud
7:52 pm
Aug 28, 2012
Looking at the situation with unjaundiced eyes and imagining the thoughts of the judge in arriving at his decision, I can find no fault in it. The decision was objective and was not clouded by prejudice or any obvious personal preference/s. I need make no comment other than agreement in what the judge decided.
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H.Laddie Schnaiberg
8:49 pm
Aug 28, 2012
The only thing I did like in the judgment, was that the Judge chastised the United States for not intervening. This was merely an obiter and had nothing to do with the case and should not have been said. I should remind everyone that there is a possible appeal and comment should be withheld until there is an appeal to a higher court and if there is no appeal, we should wait for the delay to appeal has elapsed .
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H.Laddie Schnaiberg
9:08 pm
Aug 28, 2012
Abbas has nothing to worry about the relationship between Egypt and Hamas. Hamas attacked Egyptian positions lately and as a result, Egypt killed 16 members of Hamas and closed the tunnels so that no one from the Hamas territory can enter the Egyptian territory. Perhaps Israel and Egypt can get together and destroy Hamas, their common enemy
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Frank Adam
9:53 pm
Aug 28, 2012
A little known fact of World War I is 200 British generals were wounded in battle and 70 of them were killed – mostly by shell splinters and “spent ” machine gun fire. 50 French generals were also killed in action! Anyone who steps onto a battlefield accepts they might be killed even if only directing from the second line.
The Corrie case is a lesson to other poor little rich girls arrogantly patronising outsiders & juniors. The days of “wasps” forgetting Declarations of Independence cut both ways are over!
If this case reaches the Supreme Court may the bench pour acid remarks on the cynics in ISM getting others to risk their necks for the champion incompetents of all nationalisms.
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H.Laddie Schnaiberg
11:54 pm
Aug 28, 2012
Jewish people should not judge a court decision because of hate for the person who was killed. One may have difficulty accepting the actions of Rachel Corries who tried to block a bulldozer that was destroying an Arab house. The Judge based his decision on what he declared was a war zone and that she should not have been there and her death was her fault. There was no battle going on in the area and the only thing present was a bulldozer. Could Rachel Corrie have been visible to the driver of the bulldozer before he ran over her? That is the only question upon which the judge should have decided and not whether it occurred in a war zone. I am willing to wait for a judgment on Appeal
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NoCrud
12:52 am
Aug 29, 2012
Laddie, I believe you would indeed be wise to wait…
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Harvey Rogers
3:20 am
Aug 29, 2012
Rahel Corries purpose was to prevent Israel from doing anything to dicourage suicidal mass murderers of Jews. She wanted them to continue with their killing withougt any consequences.
Can you imagine anyone goingt intyo a Sharia court to sue on behalf a Jew that was killed by an Islamist, no matter how guilty the Islamist was.
The Jewish People have too many traitors coming to the defense of those who openly hate them, kill them and claim they are the descendants of dogs. pigs and monkeys.
Do they feel I”m on their side because what they say and do, refers only to other Jews.
The Jews of Nazi Germany who were so proud of their being “Deutchers” learned too late.
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cak
4:57 am
Aug 29, 2012
Let those Rachel Corrie wannabes become human shields in the Arab Spring countries now-in Syria,Libya,Tunisia ,Egypt and also in Somalia ,Afghanistan ,etc
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