- From Dr. Gunther Kümel
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- March 7, 2010
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- Steven Plaut is a professor at Haifa University. He can
be contacted at steveneplaut@yahoo.com.
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- Rachel Corrie's Parents Get Nasty Letter
- From Professor At Haifa University
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- From Steven E. Plaut
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- Dear Mr. and Mrs. Corrie,
- You are coming to our lovely town to sue Israel, claiming
that your daughter was "killed by an Israeli bulldozer." But
you neglect to mention the circumstances under which she was so killed
(nor the fact that she died from her injuries while under Palestinian medical
care).
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- You have stated, "She had been working in Rafah
with a nonviolent resistance organization, the International Solidarity
Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells."
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- Homes and wells, huh?
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- Well, she was not. Rachel was trying to prevent the demolition
of tunnels used to smuggle weapons for Palestinian terrorists seeking to
murder Jewish civilians. ISM openly endorses Palestinian "armed struggle"
against Jewish children and civilians and openly collaborates with terrorists.
It has hidden wanted terrorists and their weapons in its offices. It is
an accomplice in murder. Lying is not the best way to drum up sympathy
for your daughter.
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- You say your daughter died trying to protect an "innocent
house." Again, this is not the truth. That "innocent house"
was camouflage for a not-so-innocent terrorist smuggling tunnel, and the
residents of that innocent house knew all about the tunnel.
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- Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent, on
behalf of a movement of Arab fascists seeking to destroy Israel and murder
as many Jews as possible. Your daughter died while interfering with an
anti-terror operation carried out by soldiers in a land in which she had
no business being at all.
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- You demand that we feel your pain at the loss of your
daughter, yet your daughter conscripted herself as an accomplice for those
seeking to murder my children. You feel no pain for the scores of martyrs
in my own city of Haifa murdered by those same terrorists.
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- Your daughter put herself in harm's way by challenging
a large bulldozer and positioning herself where the operator could not
see her. You know quite well that the bulldozer operator was not seeking
to harm her.
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- You have written, "We had not understood the devastating
nature of the Palestinians' situation." Of course, you have never
expressed any interest in the devastating nature of the Jews' situation.
The Jews have been battling Arab fascism and genocidal terrorism for a
hundred years, before, during, and after the Nazi Holocaust of six million
Jews. Your daughter was helping those who perpetrate Nazi-like atrocities
against randomly selected Jews.
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- You smugly praise the propaganda play about your daughter,
which ignored all the other Rachels - the Jewish victims of terror in Israel
who were murdered by genocidal terrorists.
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- Your daughter, and apparently you as well, never had
any understanding of the Middle East conflict. The Middle East conflict
is not about the right to self-determination of Palestinian Arabs, but
rather about the right to self-determination of Israeli Jews.
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- For a century the Arabs have attempted to block any expression
of Jewish self-determination, using violence, armed aggression, and terrorism.
The Arabs today control 22 countries and territory nearly twice the size
of the United States. They refuse to share even a fraction of one percent
of the Middle East with Jews, even in a territory smaller than New Jersey.
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- The Arab countries invented the Palestinian people and
their "plight" as a propaganda ploy in imitation of the German
campaign on behalf of Sudeten self-determination in the 1930s. Just as
the struggle for "Sudeten liberation" was nothing more than a
fig leaf for the German aggression aimed at annihilating Czechoslovakia,
so the struggle for "Palestinian liberation" is nothing more
than cover for a jihad to destroy Israel and its population.
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- Your write, "Clearly, our daughter has become a
positive symbol for people."
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- I am afraid you are mistaken. Your daughter has become
a symbol for dangerous foolhardiness. She essentially committed suicide
as an empty gesture to assist murderers and terrorists.
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- You want the world to mourn for your daughter, who died
while working with monsters out to murder our children. On the pages
of anti-Semitic propaganda web magazines you denounce Israel, but you do
not have a single word of sympathy for the families of the thousands of
innocent Israeli victims of the terrorists with whom your daughter chose
to ally herself.
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- On behalf of the citizens of Haifa, all of whom your
daughter's Hamas friends are trying to murder, I remain,
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- Steven Plaut
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- THIS LETTER DESERVES AN ANSWER:
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- Sir,
- I have read your letter to the mourning parents of Rachel
Corrie.
- Useless to say that your words are not correct in dozens
of respects. I even don't find myself inclined to correct them. Even the
contrary of your distorted arguments would be wrong.
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- However the letter depicts the long known tendency of
Zionists in Palestine and in the whole world to see only their own advantage.
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- You are so far engaged into the feeling of supremacy,
that you even find fit to attack the already dead victims of the state
crimes perpetrated against your own brethren (the Palestinians, remember
the work of your colleague Shlomo Sand).
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- It is more than abhorrent since one could have expected
from a university professor more distinction.
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- Regards
- Dr. Gunther Kümel.
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