“Everywhere I look in this house, I’m staggered by memories. … I stay in the house to look at Pat’s [Tillman] books on the shelves and appreciate his special keepsakes displayed in the dining room hutch. As I’m looking at the mementos, I find a small newspaper clipping I’ve seen before. The article is about Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, trying to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor and his family.”
“I remember picking up the article from the same spot more than a year ago [2003] and asking Pat, “Who’s this?” “That’s my hero,” Pat said. “She was a stud; she had a lot of guts.” I read the article with tears in my eyes then; now, I quietly cry.”
- - Mary Tillman “Boots on the Ground by Dusk” (2008)
Thank you! I referenced Rachel in a post last week. It’s amazing how few people remember her. If editors observed her heroism and informed American voters about why she put herself at risk, the occupation would have ended years ago. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/a-dark-turn-in-the-middle-east
Thanks, Mike, for your solid journalism on the Pat Tillman story in ESPN (back in 2006?). In my Feral Firefighter blog, wrote about how Corrie was his "hero." Also, I wrote about the bi-partisan whitewash of those responsible for the cover-up of his friendly fire death from 2006 -- 2014.
Mary Tillman (mother) wrote that Rachel Corrie was Pat Tillman's "Hero". For details, see my June 2010 "The Feral Firefighter" blog post "That's My Hero" -- Pat Tillman, Rachel Corrie, and Yoni Netanyahu.
You really are idiots. Amazing how you found such an appropriate title for your show. You all just go around in circles trying to please your progressive masters with no real facts or figures. And worse, you believe Jewish life is totally dispensable. No matter how many attacks on Israelis you cry for Hamas. Go live in Gaza or Ramallah and see how much you like those administrations.
2000 years ago when we suffered from Roman domination there were plenty of Jews trying to figure out how to re-attach their foreskins. Nothing new under the sun.
Journalists in the U.S. have played a crucial role in enabling Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine for the past 75 years. Failures of journalistic independence today are playing an equally crucial role enabling an unfolding genocide. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the
It’s stated over and over that Israel has the right to defend itself. And,it certainly does. When does defending turn to vengeance, retaliation and retribution? Especially, when it comes to destroying people who had nothing to do with the offense other than being somehow related, or at least perceived to be related. It’s so mafiaso. I killa you, I killa you wife, I killa you children, killa you dog....
No, we've done this dance with Hamas for 18 years. Time to dispose of the beast. Shame that Hamas will continue to hide behind civilians but this time we have to finish it.
I watched your Monday Mourning program on YouTube, I think you're on the wrong side of this. I would say your opinion is pretty much akin to calling the allies the oppressors for bombing Germany in WWII.
And the one terd that claimed you 2 were being too sarcastic. I’ll take sarcasm over a US Security official saying that they must level Gaza and kill everyone.
“The Israeli Defense Force called members of Hamas (Human Animals) for killing over 300 innocent children!
So now that The Israeli Defense Forces have killed over 700 innocent children (Soon To Be Over a Thousand) do they call Themselves Straight Up Animals (Not Even Partly Human)?” - *tk
The Israeli Defense Force called members of Hamas (Human Animals) for killing over 300 innocent children!
So now that The Israeli Defense Forces have killed over 1,000 innocent children (Soon To Be Over a 2,000) do they call Themselves Straight Up Animals (Not Even Partly Human)?” - *tk
I watched your Monday Mourning program on YouTube, I think you're on the wrong side of this. I would say your opinion is pretty much akin to calling the allies the oppressors for bombing Germany in WWII.
As to who is or is not brainwashed, the jury is still out!
What I Believe is you’re a supporter of The Zionist, Apartheid, Warmongering, Occupying State of Israel: who’s committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza. That’s what I believe! Prove me wrong!
The West, and especially the US, is in a desperate bid to remain diplomatically relevant in the Middle East, but Diplomacy is Dead in the West. Best hope for mediation in this conflict is Russia and China, which arranged the Iran-Saudi Arabia "rapprochement," which looms largely in the immediate background of the current situation. Apparently, MbS made Blinken wait hours before finally admitting him. US burnt bridges all over the Middle East, so I guess now we're turning to "Aircraft Carrier Diplomacy." Just another Show of Farce in place of dialogue.
Thanks for keeping the light shined on this, clearly one of the most effective jingoist propaganda efforts in the history of the US. So little learned from the war on terror despite it becoming the scandal of the century and forever tarnishing at least one presidential legacy.
Please remember Rachel Corrie who was killed (crushed) by an IDF bulldozer in Southern Gaza March 16 2003. The Bush Admin did nothing.
“Everywhere I look in this house, I’m staggered by memories. … I stay in the house to look at Pat’s [Tillman] books on the shelves and appreciate his special keepsakes displayed in the dining room hutch. As I’m looking at the mementos, I find a small newspaper clipping I’ve seen before. The article is about Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, trying to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor and his family.”
“I remember picking up the article from the same spot more than a year ago [2003] and asking Pat, “Who’s this?” “That’s my hero,” Pat said. “She was a stud; she had a lot of guts.” I read the article with tears in my eyes then; now, I quietly cry.”
- - Mary Tillman “Boots on the Ground by Dusk” (2008)
Thank you! I referenced Rachel in a post last week. It’s amazing how few people remember her. If editors observed her heroism and informed American voters about why she put herself at risk, the occupation would have ended years ago. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/a-dark-turn-in-the-middle-east
She’s one of my very few heroes in this world.
When justice arrives she will be remembered more widely.
Thanks for keeping her heroic memory alive.
Thanks, Mike, for your solid journalism on the Pat Tillman story in ESPN (back in 2006?). In my Feral Firefighter blog, wrote about how Corrie was his "hero." Also, I wrote about the bi-partisan whitewash of those responsible for the cover-up of his friendly fire death from 2006 -- 2014.
You have good taste in heroes! One hopes more writers might shine a light on moral courage on the rare occasion it emerges in public.
Thanks, Shahid. I appreciated reading your reference last week.
Mary Tillman (mother) wrote that Rachel Corrie was Pat Tillman's "Hero". For details, see my June 2010 "The Feral Firefighter" blog post "That's My Hero" -- Pat Tillman, Rachel Corrie, and Yoni Netanyahu.
You really are idiots. Amazing how you found such an appropriate title for your show. You all just go around in circles trying to please your progressive masters with no real facts or figures. And worse, you believe Jewish life is totally dispensable. No matter how many attacks on Israelis you cry for Hamas. Go live in Gaza or Ramallah and see how much you like those administrations.
You do realize that both of them are Jewish, right?
2000 years ago when we suffered from Roman domination there were plenty of Jews trying to figure out how to re-attach their foreskins. Nothing new under the sun.
2000 years?
We?
Man, you’re really f*cking old, huh?
Best way to reattach foreskin-a live hand grenade.
Give it a try.
Journalists in the U.S. have played a crucial role in enabling Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine for the past 75 years. Failures of journalistic independence today are playing an equally crucial role enabling an unfolding genocide. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the
They were never real Journalists - just shills for their corporate masters!
I had been a fan. “Useful Idiots” is an excellent and appropriate self description. You lost me
How do you describe a country (US) that totally supports, militarily and financially, TWO countries (U + I) with Nazi-dominated governments?
A TWO-state solution ( which was sabotaged for decades by both apartheid Bibi/US and Hamas ) – NOW
It’s stated over and over that Israel has the right to defend itself. And,it certainly does. When does defending turn to vengeance, retaliation and retribution? Especially, when it comes to destroying people who had nothing to do with the offense other than being somehow related, or at least perceived to be related. It’s so mafiaso. I killa you, I killa you wife, I killa you children, killa you dog....
No, we've done this dance with Hamas for 18 years. Time to dispose of the beast. Shame that Hamas will continue to hide behind civilians but this time we have to finish it.
This “we” $hit again.
What’s with you?
Besides being full of $hit that is.
What if Biden got the call that someone had bombed his garage with his beloved 'vette? If only he could have held it in his arms.
I accidently hit like, sorry.
I watched your Monday Mourning program on YouTube, I think you're on the wrong side of this. I would say your opinion is pretty much akin to calling the allies the oppressors for bombing Germany in WWII.
And the one terd that claimed you 2 were being too sarcastic. I’ll take sarcasm over a US Security official saying that they must level Gaza and kill everyone.
Great show as always.
“The Israeli Defense Force called members of Hamas (Human Animals) for killing over 300 innocent children!
So now that The Israeli Defense Forces have killed over 700 innocent children (Soon To Be Over a Thousand) do they call Themselves Straight Up Animals (Not Even Partly Human)?” - *tk
So, the Israelis should wait until hamas has killed how many more, before responding?
Must they keep level with the animals year in and year out, to avoid you considering Israel a state of animals?
“Edited Version...
The Israeli Defense Force called members of Hamas (Human Animals) for killing over 300 innocent children!
So now that The Israeli Defense Forces have killed over 1,000 innocent children (Soon To Be Over a 2,000) do they call Themselves Straight Up Animals (Not Even Partly Human)?” - *tk
You don’t know that you’ve been brainwashed, because you’ve been brainwashed!
I will repeat a comment I made to someone else.
I watched your Monday Mourning program on YouTube, I think you're on the wrong side of this. I would say your opinion is pretty much akin to calling the allies the oppressors for bombing Germany in WWII.
As to who is or is not brainwashed, the jury is still out!
“IT’S TIME...
To Start Calling What’s Going On In Gaza *The Palestinian Holocaust!
Holocaust 2!*” -tk
I suppose you believe Hamas are freedom fighters?
What I Believe is you’re a supporter of The Zionist, Apartheid, Warmongering, Occupying State of Israel: who’s committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza. That’s what I believe! Prove me wrong!
The West, and especially the US, is in a desperate bid to remain diplomatically relevant in the Middle East, but Diplomacy is Dead in the West. Best hope for mediation in this conflict is Russia and China, which arranged the Iran-Saudi Arabia "rapprochement," which looms largely in the immediate background of the current situation. Apparently, MbS made Blinken wait hours before finally admitting him. US burnt bridges all over the Middle East, so I guess now we're turning to "Aircraft Carrier Diplomacy." Just another Show of Farce in place of dialogue.
Thanks for keeping the light shined on this, clearly one of the most effective jingoist propaganda efforts in the history of the US. So little learned from the war on terror despite it becoming the scandal of the century and forever tarnishing at least one presidential legacy.