Klingons Upon You, Rachel Corrie

(Israelnationalnews.com) Gotta admit I do not know much about Julia Gorin.  But she got me guffawing with laughter, and not every columnist can do that.

Gorin has a thing about the Cult of Corrie, those people who have turned Rachel Corrie's suicide into the central canon of their Bash-Israel religion.

Gorin wrote about Corrie's cult of followers this past summer in Jewish World Review.   She dismissed Corrie as a terrorist rights campaigner and mocked those theaters trying to stage a play about Corrie.  She added: "It's not for nothing that the third anniversary of Corrie's death was commemorated with a salute to her family and friends by the Gaza Community Mental Health Program."

She has witty comments about other things: "On a side note, the weapons-smuggling tunnels beg a question: One of the Palestinians' grievances against the Israelis is that the IDF security mechanism often interferes with much needed medical supplies or medical care getting to and from the territories. But the Palestinians don't seem to have any trouble getting weapons through. Couldn't they just use their terror tunnels for the medical supplies? What's the problem?"

Well, Gorin is back this week writing enchantingly about Corrie.  She collects assorted notices about a pancake breakfast being held in Corrie's memory.  In the notice, attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.  No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.  Really.

Corrie is commonly referred to in some web sites as "Saint Pancake".   Gorin cites Michael Becker:

'I’m at a loss for words. Rachel died trying to save a weapons smuggling tunnel from the Israelis and you’re having a breakfast commemorating her that bans weapons.'

Another writes: "The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. Idiots like Rachel Corrie are like geeks who go to summer camp to learn to speak Klingon, but wind up playing with live phaser guns."

Go here to read the rest.    Here is my guru Gorin: