Martyr

[furman]

From The New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20061211&s=ozick121106

Martyr
by Cynthia Ozick
Post date 12.06.06 | Issue date 12.11.06
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie:
Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie
Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
(Theatre Communications Group, 57 pp., $12.95)

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The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is neither international in its origins nor spontaneous as a "movement." It is, simply, a front: a creature of the PLO, and under its vigilant supervision. In the United States, recruits are encouraged, partly funded, and trained by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. Though the ISM is touted as non-violent, in reality it acts not merely as a shield for violence but as its proponent. One of the leaders of the California ISM, interviewed on Al-Jazeera, is forthright: "We recognize that violence is necessary and it is permissible for oppressed and occupied people to use armed resistance and we recognize their right to do so." Every Friday in Gaza, a day dedicated to sermonic incitements in mosques, the ISM organizes riots at Israel's security fence, erected to deter infiltration by suicide bombers.

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But in fact the "civilian homes" are weapons depots; or else they are outlets, sometimes with complicit families still in them, concealing tunnels dug from Egypt to Gaza. The tunnels smuggle guns, rocket launchers, explosives; and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is there to stop the flow of arms intended for assaults on Israeli citizens, and to uncover the launchers secreted in olive groves and farms, where the gunmen also hide, or in the houses, where the gunmen hide among women and children.

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A predatory organization (the ISM) that callously endangers its human shields by placing them before the hideouts of war, it purports to preach non-violence--except on its website, where it openly defends "armed struggle."

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[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

:thumbsup:

[grassfed]

2. ozick is a notorious racist

and a pretentious egomaniac

[msmcghee]

3. Welcome to I/P .

We always have room for more intelligent considered opinions like yours.

[Tom Joad]

6. Not to mention Ozick is rabid Republican.

[Tom Joad]

4. The New Republic. Same magazine that promoted military aid to saddam in Iraq.

When Saddam was at the height of power and killing spree (all the more reason to support him according to Pipes).

New Republic on April 27, 1987

Back Iraq
It's Time for a U.S. Tilt
by Daniel Pipes and Laurie Mylroie

http://www.tomjoad.org/pipes_supportSaddam.pdf

But besides the source of this crap (as much a septic tank today as it was when it was peddling Pipes insanity nearly 20 years ago), there is the fact that this present article is filled with outright lies. I will get to that in a seperate post.

[Tom Joad]

5. homes = "weapons depots"?

The Israeli government has never accused Samir or Khaled Nasrallah, the owners of the home Rachel died defending, or their wives or children of links to terrorism.

They have traveled freely from Gaza on a tour of the United States. If their home were truly a "weapons depot" why were they not charged?

The home was not demolished the day Corrie was murdered. It was demolished months later.

The truth is that Israel had a policy of destruction in Gaza.

Policy of Destruction: House Demolition and Destruction of Agricultural Land in the Gaza Strip
http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/200202_Policy_of_Destruction.asp

"The bulldozer uprooted a tree and then drove over it and crushed it. After it uprooted and crushed all the trees in the field, the bulldozer dug a big hole, put the trees in, and covered it with dirt. Then it flattened the land and moved on to the adjacent field."
From the testimony of Khaled Taher, whose crops were destroyed by IDF bulldozers in late April 2001

"Around 12:40 A.M., I woke up to the sound of gunfire and shelling and the noise of bulldozers and tanks that we hear on a daily basis. We did not expect them to demolish houses in our area. Neither the Palestinian nor the Israeli side gave us any warning to vacate our houses <...>Suddenly, one of the children screamed, "Get out, the Jews are demolishing the houses," and began to throw stones at the neighbors' doors to wake them up. He was sobbing and shouting."
From the testimony of Mithqal Abu Taha, whose House was demolished by IDF bulldozers in July 2001

On 10 January 2002, IDF forces demolished sixty houses, and partially demolished four more, in the Rafah refugee camp, near the Egyptian border. The action left more than six hundred Palestinians homeless. The media in Israel and throughout the world published pictures of the residents and their demolished homes, and for several days, the demolition was at the heart of the Israeli public debate. The debate focussed primarily on how many houses the IDF demolished and whether the houses were occupied at the time, but it rarely addressed the question of whether the house demolitions were justified.

The reporting on the house-demolition action in Rafah gave the impression that it was a one-time act that was executed in response to the killing of four soldiers the day before. However, since the beginning of the al-Aqsa intifada, Israel has demolished hundreds of houses and destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip. ....

[IntiRaymi]

7. And the Bedouins do not have 42000 arms depots, either.

This is just the echo chamber floating a meme out there, so that it can get picked up.