Dave Kopel, billed as a media critic, has cast his eye on the Post’s coverage of the Rachel Corrie story. In his article, Kopel makes a few subtle references that confirm his own biases. Who is keeping an eye on Dave Kopel?
Kopel attacks the ISM, of which Corrie was a member, for supporting violent resisitance to the Israeli Occupation. He fails to note that violent resistance to occupation is an internationally recognized right, even if the occupier is an ally of the United States. When political and diplomatic means to end the Occupation fail, as they have repeatedly over the last forty years, what other recourse is there? He implies that the ISM is complicit in terrorism by stating that they have provided human shields to “terrorists”, including the militants who took refuge in Bethlehem and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Again, military resistance to occupation is legitimate, and it is not terrorism. Kopel freely casts aspersions when referring to Palestinians. Yet he does not refer to the bulldozer operator who destroyed a doctor’s home and killed an innocent American as a terrorist. What’s the difference? Kopel tells us the bulldozer that killed Corrie was searching for explosives, yet does not cite his sources for this information. Could it have come from the Israeli military? Is there any possibility that the perpetrators of this crime might have not been completely truthful?
Kopel seems convinced that the Post did not cover the story adequately, and he presents convincing evidence that there is more here than meets the eye. So how about a thorough and nonbiased investigation? This is exactly what the Corries have been asking for. They have asked the State Department and the U.S. Congress to figure out what happened to their daughter. And they have been denied, because the politicians in Washington and the journalists in Denver are beholden to the pro-Israel lobby.
We will never really know what happened to Rachel Corrie.
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Yes, Steve, we know what happened to Rachel Corrie: She was murdered by the Israelis. Just like the sailors on the USS Liberty, her murder will be unquestioned by our government. Isn't it a grotesque injustice, that Americans' lives and well being are like sewage to the Israelis, to be flushed into oblivion?
Posted by on October 18, 2007 03:03 PMRachel Corrie was a tool while she alive and tool since she's been dead.
Corrie put herself in harm's way because of the propaganda she chose to believe.
If she had been killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber, you wouldn't even know her name and there certainly wouldn't be a self-indulgent litle play about her because the victims of Palestinian violence don't seem to matter.
Posted by on October 18, 2007 03:30 PMRachel Corrie was a martyr who died for her beliefs... but she was NOT murdered. She was impossible to see from the position of the tank driver, for one thing. SHE, on the other hand, could see the giant machine coming her way and, yet, she CHOSE to stay.. in complete defiance of logic and what she knew would be the outcome.
The driver of that vehicle is not now, nor has he ever been, at fault.
Kisses!!!
Posted by Sheila on October 18, 2007 09:23 PM