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Rachel Corrie Died For This?

The wife of a Hamas parliamentarian explained to Gaza TV viewers about a mother’s responsibility: raising her children for jihad and martyrdom. Is this what Rachel Corrie died for? See Memri’s transcript or watch the…

Pesach Benson
January 8, 2013
12:00 am

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The wife of a Hamas parliamentarian explained to Gaza TV viewers about a mother’s responsibility: raising her children for jihad and martyrdom. Is this what Rachel Corrie died for?

See Memri’s transcript or watch the video.

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Tags: feminism, Hamas, Jihad, martyrdom, MEMRI, Palestinian children, Rachel Corrie

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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