Judge Absolves IDF For Rachel Corrie’s Death
August 28, 2012 16:42 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committee recently launched its first “terror academy.” According to YNet, this is more than just reading, writing and rockets.
• AP‘s Aron Heller visited Sderot’s first rocket-proof school. Only in Israel, right?
The $27.5 million structure features concrete walls, reinforced windows and a unique architectural plan all designed specifically to absorb and deflect rocket fire. Notices on the walls of the “Shaar Hanegev” High School remind the 1,200 students of their new reality: In case of a warning siren, it reads, stay put.
“You can finally teach without constantly worrying about what to do when there is a rocket attack,” said Zohar Nir-Levi, the principal of the junior high school inside the complex.
• A UN humanitarian official told Reuters that the Gaza “blockade” could make the strip uninhabitable by 2020.
The U.N. says only a quarter of Gaza waste water is treated. The rest, including raw sewage, goes into the Mediterranean Sea.
Gaylard said Gaza needs peace and security to improve the lives of its people. “It will certainly have to mean the end of blockade, the end of isolation and the end of conflict.”
Hamas’ Big Media apologists have what I call a “pipe dream” to destroy Israel — even if it means ripping up Gaza’s sewage system and diverting Israeli-made pipes to rocket factories. See the UN report and judge for yourself. BBC also covered the report.
• Turkey claims Israel’s exploiting Syrian uprising to quietly advance settlement activity. Fools they are: Everyone knows Israel’s exploiting Prince Harry.
• Human Rights Watch lashes out at the PA for not controlling its security services ”over years of alleged beatings and abuse of protesters, journalists and detainees.” More at Reuters.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
Iranian centrifuges
• Iran’s been called out for installing hundreds of centrifuges at an impregnable underground facility. But judging from this staff-ed, the NY Times still doesn’t get it:
Iran’s continuing activity violates United Nations Security Council demands to halt enrichment, but as one official said, it is “not a game-changer.”
The issue is that Iran’s violations and escalations are gradual. Iran’s incremental steps towards nuclearization haven’t been seismic. But the cumulative slow-drip revelations show us this: More centrifuges and purer uranium than necessary for Iran’s civilian use, a nuclear facility impregnably buried in a mountain, arrogant bombast of wiping out the Zionists, and repeated failures of diplomacy.
So what would the Times consider a game changer? A nuclear detonation over Tel Aviv?
• Israelis are clearing out bombshelters, obtaining gas masks, and making contingency plans. LA Times reporter Edmund Sanders takes the national pulse:
That’s not normal,” Gilboa, 32, recalled with a nervous laugh. “When you’re making a list of gifts for a baby, gas mask is not supposed to be on it.”
• Warren Kozak’s take on Iranian nukes is must-read for anyone who thinks there’s an equivalent rationality among nuclear-weapon states. See the Wall St. Journal, via Google News.
Sinai-Gaza Terror Ties
• Mohammed Morsi gave his first interview with a Western news service. He said all the right things to Reuters:
Without mentioning Israel by name, he indicated Egypt’s neighbour had nothing to fear from a new military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula, which he ordered after gunmen attacked an Egyptian border post, killed 16 guards and tried to burst across the frontier into Israel.
“Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces,” he said, referring to the extra police, army and other forces moved to the area.
Arab Spring Winter
George Galloway on Al-Mayadeen TV
• How low can George Galloway continue to sink? He’s hosting a talk show for the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV. With ties to Syria, Iran and Hezbollah, one skeptical Arab columnist referred to Al-Mayadeen as “the last attempt to revive pro-Assad media.” The Times of London (paywall) writes:
The management of al-Mayadeen, Arabic for “the public squares”, has several figures with links to Syria. The head of its news division is married to a former communications adviser to President Assad, and the general manager was previously head of al-Manar, a TV station affiliated with the pro-Syrian Lebanese militia, Hezbollah . . .
Asked if he had concerns about the financing of the station, Mr Galloway attacked Rupert Murdoch. He said: “The station is privately owned, but the owners are rather more respectable than the owner of The Times.” Mr Galloway used the first instalments of his show, which has subtitles for the Arabic-speaking audience, to rail against the motives of international powers who support the uprising in Syria.
Meanwhile, Galloway’s show on Iran’s state-controlled Press TV continues.
• Time: Libyans are exporting their revolution to Syria.
• A Washington Post staff-ed slams President Obama’s handling of Syria, picking up on a blogger’s point that the White House is actually emboldening Bashar Assad:
Last week President Obama did say that his “calculus” about “military engagement” would change if the regime began using or deploying its stocks of chemical weapons. But as the Syrian blogger Ammar Abdulhamid has written, the drawing of that red line may have emboldened the regime to conclude that anything short of using weapons of mass destruction will be tolerated by Washington.
Mr. Abdulhamid wonders “why slaughter would be deemed tolerable if it happened one way and not another.” It’s a good question — and one for which the administration’s morally bankrupt policy has no answer.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The appointment of Giuseppe Lazzarotto as the Vatican’s new ambassador to Israel finally hit Irish media radar. It’s based on a YNet commentary about the envoy’s efforts to cover up Ireland’s pedophile priests scandal. Jerusalem’s being diplomatic about it for now.
An Israeli government spokesman told The Irish Times that relations between the Holy See and Ireland were “not the concern” of Israel.
(Image of centrifuges via YouTube/NewsOnABC, Galloway via YouTube/adon elia)
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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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