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RACHEL CORRIE -
Another New Tragedy
Now Politically Raped by Jim Zogby after being Killed by Israelis and
Disregarded by Americans
Rachel
Corrie was a dedicated and courageous human rights activist as well as
a
gifted
writer. At age 23 she was purposefully crushed to death by an Israeli Army
bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home in the
Gaza
Strip on 16 March 2003.
MER -
MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 20 March: Pro-Palestinian
groups, along with most
Arab-American groups, have a sad but mostly deserved reputation for
mediocrity and incompetence -- this on top of cozy associations for
those most in the news with the worst of the Arab 'client regimes' who
of course always keep them on a very short tight leash.
When it comes to those who are
promoting the memory and the cause of Rachel Corrie they are among the
most dedicated -- as was she -- but sadly, as current events
illustrate, they are also among the most politically naive. This
week in fact they are allowing one of the worst on-the-take
Arab-American hucksters to host an event that has grown out of the New
York City cancellation of the powerful and important London play "My
Name is Rachel Corrie".
For host Jim Zogby is quite the opposite of everything
courageous and dedicated Rachel Corrie was.
Put simply
Zogby has milked and bilked the Palestinian cause for years now,
greatly benefiting himself and cronies while in the end, if judged by
results rather than rhetoric, actually
helping make things even worse for the Palestinians...far worse in
fact. Insiders haven't forgotten when Zogby went to bat for the
notorious Israeli Lobby agent Martin Indyk endorsing him as an "Arab
American" and thus helping secure him a powerful place in
Washington affairs. In turn a few years later, on top of many other
things done for Zogby as a kind of Arab American Uncle Tom, Indyk
appointed Zogby's son to be his assistant at the State Department!
Also a few years
ago Zogby championed something called 'Builders for Peace' --
a major multimillion dollar tie-in to the 'Oslo Peace Process' which
Zogby
then manipulated so that much of the money ended up in the bank
accounts of
himself and friends. Then, just a few years later, with all the
things Zogby promised were going to greatly help the Palestinians
coming to nothing other than more hardship and bloodletting, 'Builders
For Peace' was totally canceled without
even one single major project being completed for Palestinians in the
occupied territories. The list of Zogby scams and outrages goes
on...and on...
The following 'spoof' newsletter about Jim Zogby was
published by Palestinian students some years ago and helps illustrate
what he has been all about for quite some time. If Rachel
Corrie were alive and knew what was happening here in the USA as she
did in Occupied Palestine she would be the first one telling Zogby off
with more words of her own and chastising him endlessly for his
hypocrisy and duplicity. What a further tragedy that those
who care so much about what Rachel Corrie stood for, and what she so
sadly died for, lack the understanding and the courage themselves to prevent her
political rape on top of all the other indecencies.
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