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Blinken meets family of US-Turkish activist killed by IDF in West Bank

2024-12-17

[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met earlier today with the family of Aysenur Eygi,

… more fully Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, she was born in Turkey, died in the West Bank from a single bullet hole behind one ear 20 minutes after the shooting stopped — and in the meantime she lived in America long enough to gain citizenship and a new husband whom she left behind to protect rampaging Palestinians with her body and her blood from those eeeeevil Zionisters…

a Turkish-American activist shot dead by the IDF in the West Bank earlier this year, the State Department says.

Blinken expressed condolences to the family and reiterated his belief that the incident should never have happened, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says during a press briefing.

And it wouldn’t have, had she stayed at home, or at least spent her vacation touring around the harmless and picturesque.

Blinken also informed the family that Israel has told the US in recent days that the IDF is finalizing its investigation into Eygi’s killing, and that the State Department will keep the family in the loop on the matter.

In other words, nothing has changed, but he wants to posture in front of the cameras to demonstrate how much he cares for Israel’s avowed enemies one last time.

Asked whether he would back the Eygi family’s call for an independent investigation into her killing, Miller says that is a matter for the Justice Department to decide.

At least for the next few weeks. After that the decision will belong to President Trump and his team.

Eygi’s husband Hamad Ali told reporters after the meeting with Blinken that the secretary was “attentive,” but “repeated a lot of the same things we’ve been hearing for the past 20 years, particularly since Rachel Corrie’s killing.”

Twenty years Ms. Eygi was six. How much attention was she paying to events far from Turkey?

Corrie, a 23-year-old American International Solidarity Movement activist, was killed in Gaza while attempting to block an Israeli army bulldozer that was engaged in a home demolition operation. An Israeli court absolved the driver.

Israel’s initial findings on the killing of Eygi do not exonerate Israeli security forces, Miller said in September, warning that Washington would consider other measures if it is not satisfied with the results of a full Israeli probe.

Israel acknowledged that its troops shot the 26-year-old on September 6, while she took part in a protest near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, but said it was an unintentional act during a demonstration that turned violent.

Eygi was a human rights activist and volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement,

… a leftwing Palestinian “peace movement” founded shortly before 9/11 with funding from the Holy Land Trust that uses international activists as human shields to protect Palestinian terrorists and provide propaganda for the Palestinian cause. Cf. Rachel Corrie, a.k.a. St. Pancake...

which calls for resisting Israeli rule over Palestinians using non-violent methods.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 Despite all the Dept. of State do not travel warnings and the many vivid news articles, some people just have to pee on the electric fence to confirm. Maybe her spirit and that of the late Saint Pancake should form some kind of Dumb and Dead Protesters Club

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2024-12-17 10:19

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