The blind Israeli Army driver of the
specially-made Caterpillar bulldozer used to murder Rachel Corrie,
an American who thought her mere body
would have moral force against a remorseless state (two states,
actually, counting the U.S.) has been exonerated by an Israeli court
in a futile civil suit pursued by Rachel's parents at great expense
in their time and money (and emotional hope). Obviously a blind man
couldn't be held responsible for running over someone who was right
in front of him. Indeed, the judge went out of his way to blame
Rachel for her own death. She was reckless, he officially opined, to
put her body between an Israeli U.S.-supplied bulldozer and a
Palestinian house.
And obviously the driver was blind,
because that is the only plausible way he could have failed to see
Rachel right in front of him, in broad daylight, moving around, in a
bright safety vest, especially when he created a mound of earth with
her on top of it so she was standing above the bulldozer's blade a
few feet in front of his sightless eyeballs. But the Israeli state,
and all its minions and accomplices, are sticking to their story. And
for the U.S., one less pesky troublemaker for the FBI and CIA to have
to spy on.
To Israel and the U.S., Palestinians
are subhuman, and thus have no human rights. They are illegal
squatters on “The Land of Israel,” given to “the Jews” by
“God” thousands of years ago and theirs to own in perpetuity.
U.S. Christian fanatics concur in this. Thus Palestinian humanoids
are a pestilential infestation on the land.
Make no mistake, many Jews, here and in
Israel, would like nothing better to physically exterminate these
pests, if only it were politically viable. (I have personally heard
them voice this desire, and for those who haven't, I recommend you
check out the hate speech and literature of the more “radical”
elements of the “settler” movement, the followers of Meir Kahane,
the idolizers of the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin, those who pay homage
at the grave of Baruch Goldstein,* the killer of Palestinian
worshippers in their mosque, and so forth. Their attitude is barely
concealed.
And those who have run the Jewish State
from its inception have relied on murderous terrorism to drive out
the Palestinians.
*Baruch Kopel Goldstein
was an American-born
Jewish doctor who slaughtered 29 Palestinian
Muslim
worshippers and wounded 125 in a 1994 massacre in the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron, a city in the West Bank where thousands of
Israeli troops are stationed to impose a colony of several hundred
fanatical fundamentalist Jews amid thousands of Palestinians. The
ultimate goal of those who Goldstein represented and who honor his
legacy today is to make Hebron (and indeed all of “the Land of
Israel from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea”) Palestinian-free.
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