By Lior Rozenman
Something called the combatant activities exception was invoked by
the Israeli court in Haifa to exonerate the IDF from culpability in the Rachel
Corrie case.
In handing down the verdict, Judge Oded Gershon justified the invocation of
the combatant activity exception by noting that IDF forces had been attacked in
the same area Corrie was killed just hours earlier.
But is that exception even necessary?
This is a protester who willfully put herself in harm's way to make her
version of a political statement, protesting injustice in Gaza.
Corrie certainly had the right to express her opinion, but she is risking her
own well-being by placing herself at close proximity to an army vehicle in a
self-described war zone.
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