re: #367 MandyManners

Suicides by cop don’t expect 72 virgins.

Here’s one of those virgin seeking terrorists you’re talking about.

Hedy Epstein (86)
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Hedy was born in Freiburg, Germany on 8/15/1924, the only child of Ella & Hugo Wachenheimer. She lived in Kippenheim, 30 km north of Freiburg, where her father’s side of the family had lived for generations. She left Germany at 14, in1939, on a Kindertransport (children's transport), to London, England - one of almost 10,000 mostly Jewish children.
Both her parents, as well as other family members, perished in Auschwitz in 1942. In July 1945, she returned to Germany to work for the American government, first with the U.S. Civil Censorship Division and then as a research analyst at the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi doctors who performed medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.
In May 1945, she arrived in the United States and quickly became involved in peace and social justice issues.
Since 2003, she has visited Israeli-occupied West Bank five times to witness the effects of Israel’s occupation.

That’s why I don’t think this was a terrorist attack flotilla. And no, I don’t think Hedy was throwing marbles or swinging a bat at the Israeli commandos…I’m assuming that was done by younger members of the flotilla, and probably young men.