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A 'tribute' to Rachel Corrie
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satell...p=1006953079865
Mar. 1, 2004
A 'tribute' to Rachel Corrie
By RUHAMA SHATTAN
March 16 is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending.
Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom �oops, death � have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women, and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and her friend in the February 22, 2004 bombing), and leaving hundreds more widows, orphans, and bereaved parents.
On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing Palestinian children how to despise America as she snarled, burned an American flag, and led them in chanting slogans, and as she gave "evidence" at a Young Palestinian Parliament mock trial finding President Bush guilty of crimes against humanity.
Perhaps her help in fanning the flames of violent anti-American sentiment led to the October 2003 bombing of the Fulbright delegation to Gaza to interview scholarship candidates, killing three. There will be no new crop of Palestinian Fulbright scholars this fall.
ON THE first anniversary of her death, I wanted to thank Rachel Corrie for providing her organization, the Palestinian-sponsored International Solidarity Movement, with the opportunity to release a manipulated photo sequence "showing" an Israeli military bulldozer deliberately crushing her. (I would also like to thank AP and The Christian Science Monitor for taking up the baton and immortalizing this cynical ISM stunt.)
On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing the way to all those who seek peace in the Middle East. Unfortunately, Corrie's peace, as anyone familiar with the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, and Hizbullah organizations that she defended with her life knows � or as anyone familiar with the weekly rants of the Friday preachers in the Palestinian mosques is aware � means not peaceful coexistence but the elimination of the State of Israel, and death to those they call "the usurping Jews, the sons of apes and pigs."
Thank you, Rachel Corrie, of Evergreen State University, where the profs wear khakis and keffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing us what peace really means.
i hear alliances are all the rage in the C/O room, who wants to make an 'ignore long winded israeli / palestine article alliance'?
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| Originally posted by tathi i hear alliances are all the rage in the C/O room, who wants to make an 'ignore long winded israeli / palestine article alliance'? |
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| Originally posted by tathi i hear alliances are all the rage in the C/O room, who wants to make an 'ignore long winded israeli / palestine article alliance'? |
van fart likes to post a new thread with every article.
He doesnt understand that his sources should be posted in the "honest" reporting thread where it belongs!
rachel corrie 
It's better the IDF took care of Rachel Corrie... if she lived to see the likes of me she'd have it far worst than having all her bones crushed to little peices. Next time i take a leak outside, i'll be thinking of her body on the recieving end of my bodies natural flow. RIP* you dirty whore!
*Stands for Rot in Piss
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| Originally posted by dj_ilan_yosef It's better the IDF took care of Rachel Corrie... if she lived to see the likes of me she'd have it far worst than having all her bones crushed to little peices. Next time i take a leak outside, i'll be thinking of her body on the recieving end of my bodies natural flow. RIP* you dirty whore! *Stands for Rot in Piss |
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| Originally posted by Cyrus King van fart likes to post a new thread with every article. He doesnt understand that his sources should be posted in the "honest" reporting thread where it belongs! |
Rachel Corrie was brutally killed.
I hope that bulldozer operator dies the same death while his friends and family watch him get crushed.
so what?
am i supposed to buy Caterpillar brand stock?
the US and Swedes lost a reasonable affiliate here|
Remembering Rachel Corrie
Remembering Rachel Corrie: Justice Still Not Served � Corrie
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Thursday, March 04 2004 @ 01:57 PM EST
"As we approach March 16, we need to ask: how it is that an unarmed US citizen can be killed with impunity by a soldier from an allied nation .."
By ELIZABETH CORRIE
Only a year ago, the approach of the month of March would have held the same positive associations for me as it has for many � the beginning of the end of winter, the promise of springtime and even summer not too far behind. This year, and for every year for the rest of my life, the approach of March will mean something else entirely � the anniversary of the brutal death of my cousin, Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, an Israeli soldier and his commander ran over Rachel with a 9-ton, Caterpillar bulldozer while she stood � unarmed, clearly visible in her orange fluorescent jacket � protecting a Palestinian home slated for demolition by the Israeli army.
The death of Rachel Corrie and the response that her case has � and has not � received reveal several disturbing, indeed immoral and criminal, truths. First, Rachel died while attempting to prevent a home demolition, a common practice of the Israeli Army's collective punishment that has left more than 12,000 Palestinians � men, women, and children � homeless since the beginning of the second uprising in September 2000. This practice violates international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Second, Rachel was run over by a Caterpillar bulldozer, manufactured in the United States and sent to Israel as part of the United States' regular aid package to the State of Israel, which amounts to at least $3 billion to $4 billion annually, all of which comes from U.S. taxpayers. The use of Caterpillar bulldozers to destroy civilian homes, not to mention to run over unarmed human rights activists, violates U.S. law, including the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, which prohibits the use of U.S. military aid against civilians.
Third, the self-acquittal of the Israeli Army for Rachel's death and the resistance of the State of Israel to an independent investigation into this case reveals both the Sharon administration's unwillingness to take responsibility for the death of a U.S. citizen and the Bush administration's cowardice in allowing another nation to attack U.S. citizens with impunity.
Fourth, Rachel's death was in fact only the first of several Israeli attacks on foreign citizens in the West Bank and Gaza � Brian Avery, from New Mexico, was shot in the face on April 5, 2003; Tom Hurndall, a U.K. citizen, was shot in the head on April 11, 2003 and died on January 13; and James Miller, another U.K. citizen, was shot and killed in April 2003 as well. To date, in only Hurndall's case will the Israeli soldier responsible for the attack face trial, and this because the British government, after several months, finally responded to the overwhelming evidence presented by the Hurndall family.
As we approach March 16, residents and citizens of the United States should ask themselves how it is that an unarmed United States citizen can be killed with impunity by a soldier from an allied nation receiving massive United States aid, using a product manufactured in the United States by a United States corporation and paid for with United States tax dollars. When three Americans were killed, presumably by Palestinians, in an explosion on October 15, 2003 as they traveled through Gaza, the FBI arrived within 24 hours to investigate the deaths. After one year, neither the FBI, nor any other US-led team has done anything to investigate the death of an American, knowingly killed by an Israeli.
Why the double standard? Perhaps this reveals the most disturbing truth of all.
-Elizabeth Corrie works with the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice. She lives in Atlanta.
lol.
DUN DUN...two stories
DUN DUN...two sources
DUN DUN...both bias
DUN DUN...only one can survive
DUN DUN...prepare for
DUN DUN...
ANOTHER CASE OF HONEST REPORTING
Can't we just excise the forum of this shit?
being drunk is funner!!!
AP and BBC confirm: Rachel Corrie being gang raped in hell by every Homicide bomber to ever exist!
What a slut!
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| Originally posted by dj_ilan_yosef AP and BBC confirm: Rachel Corrie being gang raped in hell by every Homicide bomber to ever exist! What a slut! |
Rachel Corrie's example proves that there are some decent americans who care about those people there country f*cks over. A country is always in trouble when it starts to kill journalists and protestors. It shows it has something to hide. Face it all you Israeli apologists, your country is no better than Syria or Egypt or Turkey. You may be able to deceive the americans but noone is buying that Israel the perpetual victim line anymore.
The reason you people complain so much is because you realize although you dont want to admit it that Israel is beaten. There is nothing you can do to stop the inevitable Palestinian victory. You can con the worlds media into ignoring what you people really want "transfer". I am going to get flamed for this but it has to be said. I read your papers online, Israel isnt a closed society, I read how a sizable percentage of the population want to transfer the pesky natives into their ghettos, to make sure the ethnic mix remains majority jewish. If it were any other country who talked like that I know what lable would be applied to them. But no Israel is special, Israelis are saints, everthing Israel does is always justifiable. How easy the persecuted turn into the persecutors. In the long run the dream of an ethnically Jewish homeland, surrounded by a sea of arabs is a fantasy, economic, geographic and most importantly demographic factors all ensure that it is little more than a pipedream.
Rachel Corrie was well intentioned but she was a fool, as if the Israeli government or the USA cares about her or the palestinians. And that attitude is very clearly demonstrated by the opinions on this board. But since Israel will not listen to the likes of Rachel Corrie, I am sure that it will listen to all the Wahhabbi fanatics that will inevitably stream into palestine in the next couple of years to wage their "holy war". Islamic fundamentalism is here to stay and it will be far more dangerous to Israel than the old school nationalism of the PLO.
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