I am cross-posting the below-linked article by Fraser Nelson in The Spectator. With the Israeli seizing of the boat named after Rachel Corrie, it's for sure the extreme left and pro-Palestinian forces will be spreading her name about again in future weeks.
Corrie was a young college coed who went off to Gaza in 2003 to side with the Palestinians against Israel when the IDF was trying to shut down underground tunnels being used to smuggle arms. She was killed while sitting in front of a bulldozer. She has been lionized as a martyr ever since. Her parents are now traveling around the world condemning Israel. They have been to UC-Irvine on at least one occasion, which was a year or two back. They come across as decent people, but they have aligned themselves with the same people who want to destroy the state of Israel.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6061198/the-other-rachel.thtml
Thanks to Mr Nelson for mentioning the other Rachels killed by Palestinian terrorists. It is shocking that the British girl killed by a suicide bomber in Israel never gets any coverage in the British press.
It is shameful.
It is truly a shame any of these women lost their lives, however, the true shame is the lack of sincerity showed to the ones who were killed by the Palestinians. I know Israel is not blameless, but they are demonized for every step they take and the Palestinians, on the other hand, are always shown as the victims and the ones our hearts should go out for. I just wish the media would stop being biased and leaning so far to the left. If they straightened up and flew straight we could expect a greater understanding of the world's events instead of arguing between right and left.
ReplyDeleteI guess unfortunately this will always just be a wish.
Remnant,
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid and always getting in trouble, my Dad would always tell me: "You better straighten up and fly right".
Thanks for the memory.
It appears that the State of Israel, whatever its virtues or historical claims, is capable of putting into action what George Corley Wallace only indulged in as a rhetorical flourish. In translation, I guess it reads "The next American coed who sits down in front of my bulldozer, that's the last bulldozer they're going to lie down in front of."
ReplyDeleteAlthough I came to believe that American military intervention in Vietnam was a mistake, I have never expected people who, e.g. lost a son to Viet Cong gunfire, to embrace the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. That there are American veterans who could go back after the war, organizing teams to help the people of Vietnam, and sit down over meals with veterans of the opposing army, speaks well of them all. Apparently, Rachel Corrie's parents did not find a moral basis to do likewise. Neither, to my knowledge did the daughters of the man thrown overboard by a PLO squad in his wheelchair -- and why should they? These experiences are all very personal, whatever the political ramifications.