Why was that girl in Syria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

She was previosly in Israel to show her support for Hamas.

She was no stranger to the region or the issues, and she chose sides (against Israel).

Unfortunately for her, IS viewed her as an Infidel (therefore property, like a slave) and a valuable hostage as an American

She was walking Palestinian kids to school to protect them from Israeli settlers. I find the Israel response to her death disturbing.

“Too Bad ISIS didn’t burn her alive”

American-born Rabbi Ben Packer shared Kaplan’s op-ed on his Facebook page along with the comment, “All sympathy - GONE!!”

Packer, who served as the “Rabbi on Campus” at Duke University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) after a stint in the Israeli army, is currently “Supreme Commander” of “Heritage House,” a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem that provides lodging for Jewish tourists and “lone soldiers,” essentially foreign fighters recruited from abroad to participate in Israel’s military occupation in Palestine.

Packer went on to respond enthusiastically to a friend who remarked that Islamic State should have burned Mueller alive like it did the captured Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasassbeh.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-backers-celebrate-death-islamic-state-hostage-kayla-mueller

I highly.doubt the person u quote is representative of 'Israel' though I'm.sure he would be flattered!

[Anonymous]

Too bad she died at such a young age.
However, how could she enter Syria with a US passport? There are check points between Syria and Turkey. There is no way the guards which stop every car at each checkpoint would let her pass through unless she represented a well established organization. She was indeed in Israel, then Turkey and Syria -- very difficult, almost impossible to do it independently unless she was a freelance international journalist.

[Anonymous]

Her prior political protest activity in Israel apparently followed in the footsteps of many U.S. leftists who have vowed to take action in Israel (many vow non-violence).

There was just a decision involving a U.S. citizen killed in Israel while protesting in 2003:


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court

She was not some clueless neophyte unaware of the region's complicated politics.

In any event, her death is a terrible tragedy and further evidence in support of the United States decision to take action against IS.

America is "the good guys" fighting to destroy the pure evil that is the Islamic State.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was doing humanitarian work in Turkey. The bad decision was following a boyfriend into Syria for what was supposed to be a short overnight trip to do some computer work.

Based on news reports and a statement for Doctors Without Borders, she was not at all working for the organization. she was volunteering at a refuge camp in Turkey and went to Syria on what was supposed to be a one day trip with a friend who had been hired by DWB. she was not going to help anybody, just to visit the place. she seemed to be a nice and generous person, but going into Syria basically as a tourist to visit DWB was a very, very stupid decision.

This.