Comments on: American press trivializes the injuries suffered by American peace volunteers in the West Bank

By: Rowan

Rowan — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Imagine if the risks and injuries to the Freedom Riders had been trivialized in the northern press during the 60s.

Surely, they were.

By: Chris Berel

Chris Berel — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

But the freedom riders were not american-hating asswipes assisting palestinian terrorists kill Jews.

Corrie is more noted for her Darwinian removal than anything she might have been brainwashed to accomplish.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Not like this, much of the Northern press was more sympathetic to the Civil Rights movement than they were to the segregationists.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@Phil

Do you have any idea how many Americans get mugged in a given year? And the U.S. press is supposed to make this front page news? There wouldn't be room for it all. Or is it only when someone gets mugged in Israel that you think it should be front page news right away?

Know what I noticed about both those attacks? Neither one of the victims said anything about how they knew their attackers were settlers. They could just as easily have been Palestinians who resented the Christians coming in. Or wanted some propaganda. Or in the case of the woman who was mugged, wanted her money.

By: spuxxx

spuxxx — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I didn't see the Huffington Post giving this story much space either. From what I could see, the story was covered by a few news wire reports buried in the site and without a comments section.
Recently an American girl was arrested in Iran, and that story was on the frontpage for a day or so and aquired a fair few comments

By: cherylb

cherylb — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

When I heard of Tristan's injury I immediately called his Senator's offices and reminded them that the family of Rachel Corrie had met with them and asked them for assistance in obtaining a credible investigation into Rachel's death and that that did not occur. Now, one of their constituents has been critically injured by the IDF and we can wait for these two Senators to declare that they have asked the Israelis for an investigation. Meanwhile, they are both aware that in Rachel's case, Tom Hurndall's case and James Miller's case Israeli justice failed.

When I read that the spokesperson for the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem hoped the Israeli's would do an investigation into the Kim Lamberty attack I knew that "hope" was the operative word because recent history has proven the IDF incapable of doing anything near a credible investigation and the the U.S. government is well aware of this fact.

I believe one of the most important acts that those who care for Tristan can do is to fax and phone his two Senator's offices as well as the U.S. State Dept. and insist that a credible investigation occur into how this happened, finding out where these weapons originate from and which government finances them. I would follow up on a weekly basis with the foreign policy person in both Senator's offices. And, I would remind them that Rachel Corrie, James Miller, Shaden Abu Hijleh and the U.S.S. Liberty guys are all still waiting for a credible investigation so for them to suggest that the IDF can do such an investigation is laughable.

God bless the ISMers and God bless Tristan and his family.

By: Susie Kneedler

Susie Kneedler — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

How about Congress--at long last--officially investigating the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty as well, and the firing on its survivors in life boats?

By: r

Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

If you write your representatives, your letter will wind up in the wastebasket.

If you try to organize, you'll be outmaneuvered and outgunned by the israeli lobby, which has access to unlimited amounts of cash. Their membership boasts some of the richest people on earth.

If you are courageous enough to join the ISM, you will wind up in a hospital, brain dead or else you will be killed by the IDF.

The only hope is that the Palestinians find a way---as the Vietnamese did, of killing enough of the Nazi scum invaders to eventually force them out.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@Susie Kneedler

ROFLMAO

There have already been six official investigations by the U.S. government into the Liberty incident. Including NSA, CIA, Navy, some committee or sub-committee of the House of Representatives, and some committee or sub-committee of the Senate. All of which found that it was a friendly fire incident.

There was no firing on survivors in lifeboats. Which isn't exactly stunning since there was no one in the lifeboats, which were mistakenly launched despite the fact that the ship wasn't sinking (and didn't sink).

Get your facts straight before posting.

By: r

Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Other sources claim that the attack was premeditated. They note that various aircraft, apparently Israeli, flew over Liberty at regular intervals—some at low altitudes—before the attack; and that Liberty was about twice as large as El Quseir, designated with Latin rather than Arabic letters, displaying the US flag, and differently configured. Proponents include the surviving Liberty crewmen, [5] and some former U.S. government officials, including then-CIA director Richard Helms and then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk as well as Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Johnson administration did not publicly dispute Israel's claim that the attack had been nothing more than a disastrous mistake, but internal White House documents obtained from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library show that the Israelis' explanation of how the mistake had occurred was not believed.[6]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

Thom the Nazi is going to teach us some facts.

Stop it. My sides are killing me.