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Related: About this forumRachel Corrie's Family Denied Justice From Israel's Highest Court
Published on
Friday, February 13, 2015
byCommon Dreams
bySarah Lazare, staff writer
Decision 'amounts to judicial sanction of immunity for Israeli military forces when they commit injustices and human rights violations,' said Corrie's family
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(Photo: Robert Shetterly/Americans Who Tell the Truth)
The rejection is the latest stage in the family's decade-long legal battle to hold Israel liable for Corrie's death, on charges that the military either killed her deliberately or was negligent.
Corrie, who hailed from Olympia, Washington, had been volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement for two months in Gaza when she was run over and killed by Israeli forces near the Rafah crossing in 2003. Her death sparked international outrage at Israeli human rights abuses, as well as accolades for Corrie's life and legacy.
Since her killing, Corrie's parentsCindy and Craighave continued their daughter's work for global justice.
However, they have so far not seen justice in Israel's courts.
Full article: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/02/13/rachel-corries-family-denied-justice-israels-highest-court
MisterP
(23,730 posts)shot him in the head after taking him captive; his relatives were mocked on the floor of the Senate and many soi-disant liberal gatekeepers like TNR denounced him as aiding totalitarianism: he'd been working on vaccines and small dams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Linder
polly7
(20,582 posts)I didn't know about that ....... how sad for him and his family. He sounds like he was a truly good man.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)and we'll bomb your palace/send a bodybuilder who sounds like Kissinger" movies, nor did the 1988 Honduran Embassy fire spark any "we HAD to open fire because even the 9-year-olds want us dead for no reason other than being inscrutable Mahometans" movies
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)The "combat activities exception", eh?
Incidentally, the court upheld the appeal by the corries against the removal of her organs by the Israeli chief pathologist. That will go back to the lower courts for determination.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I appreciate learning more about all of this. I wasn't even aware Hiss had actually kept some of her organs. Horrible!
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)apparently:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Hiss
I actually had a thread on DU about Hiss memory-holed (not just locked, but deleted, vamooshed, all gone). It was to do with Hiss and the fact that he may have taken bits of Corrie. Apparently calling an Israeli a body snatcher gave them a touch of the vapours, even if it happened to be true.
polly7
(20,582 posts)But sure .......... it must be just all rumour.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)removal of pituitary glands, for instance, was once very commonplace:-
http://www.oocities.org/newcannibals/Ch19TrustingYourHospital.html
I suppose the thing that annoyed me was that the theft of organs was an outrageous accusation, a blood libel, a despicable and perfidious deed, right up until the point that it was proven true. Then the same people who had shrilled about how bad it was suddenly about-faced and said it was no big deal, other people do it, etc...
It would be good to refer back to the thread in question, but as I mentioned, it was memory-holed.
polly7
(20,582 posts)disgusting. Sorry about your thread, I would have loved to have seen it.