Rachel: An American Conscience (Rachel Corrie Killed in Gaza by the IDF)

Presente! I saw her parents speak once; amazing people, just like their daughter. What a beautiful family.

Don't have time to watch the doc now, but she's the one the right calls "St. Pancake" right? Few things are more viscerally infuriating than that line of mockery.

*http://www.masada2000.org/RachelCorrie.html --- this site is fucking insane.

When I leave for school or work I can be relatively certain that there will not be a heavily armed soldier waiting halfway between Mud Bay and downtown Olympia at a checkpoint with the power to decide whether I can go about my business, and whether I can get home again when I’m done.

So, if I feel outrage at arriving and entering briefly and incompletely into the world in which these children exist, I wonder conversely about how it would be for them to arrive in my world.

They know that children in the United States don‚t usually have their parents shot and they know they sometimes get to see the ocean.

But once you have seen the ocean and lived in a silent place, where water is taken for granted and not stolen in the night by bulldozers, and once you have spent an evening when you haven't wondered if the walls of your home might suddenly fall inward waking you from your sleep, once you've met people who have never lost anyone, and once you have experienced the reality of a world that isn't surrounded by murderous towers, tanks, armed “settlements” and now a giant metal wall...

I wonder if you can forgive the world for all the years of your childhood spent existing—just existing—in resistance to the constant stranglehold of the world‚s fourth largest military—backed by the world’s only superpower—in it's attempt to erase you from your home.

Rachel Corrie, February 7th, 2003

Rachel: An American that thought she could stop a Cat D9 Dozer with her face.

Truly an inspiration to all the OWS protestors that jumped in front of that Koch supporter's Lexus.

Kinda makes you sick.

sigh...depressing

Solidarity, forever.

Thanks for the upvotes, y'all. Rachel's tragic story and the true nature of the occupation need to be seen by as many humans as possible. We can still turn this around. Demand that your tax dollars stop funding the expansionist Apartheid state of Israel. They cannot get away with it without US funding, which means there is plenty of work to do here in the states if you support the ISM's mission.

Israel is a shithole.

Still don't understand how she was run over by a fucking bulldozer. Not like things exactly move fast. Was she trapped in cement or something like Kevin Kilne in A Fish Called Wanda?

She was killed by her own stupidity because she sat in front of an armored bulldozer (because palestinians were shooting at it) that later demolished a house that was confirmed to be used as a hiding place for munitions.

TL;DR: Stupid bitch gets turned into pancake!

www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/ism_rachelcorrie.pdf

WHAT RACHEL CORRIE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ISM

1. While the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-run organization that describes itself as a peaceful humanitarian group, in reality it is sympathetic to terrorist tactics and promulgates a one-sided, anti-Israel view of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. ISM lures well-intentioned, idealistic young adults to the Palestinian Territories to promote this distorted viewpoint. The ISM then knowingly leads its members into war zones to act as human shields and obstruct Israel's counterterrorism operations in the Territories, placing the lives of these young adults at risk. After weeks or months of such experiences, ISM “internationals” are sent home to their native countries to spread the biased views and factual distortions and misinformation they were taught during their stay in the Territories.

2. Though the ISM tries to maintain the veneer of a "peace group," they have a history of actively aiding terrorism and obstructing counter-terrorism efforts.

   • On April 30, 2003, weeks after Rachel Corrie’s death, Asif Muhammad Hanif murdered three people and wounded more than 50 in a suicide bombing at a beachfront pub in Tel Aviv. Days earlier, Hanif & his cohort (whose bomb would later fail to detonate) were hosted at ISM headquarters. The two British subjects had entered the Territories illegally, using security-subverting tactics ISM prescribes to its members (ISM members are typically refused entry into Israel or deported when discovered by Israeli security officials). ISM is currently under investigation by UK and Israeli intelligence for its role in this terrorist attack.

   • In two separate incidents in March/April 2002, ISM members broke through military security lines to give support to Yasser Arafat in Ramallah and holed up with Arab terrorists who took over the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

   • ISM activists admit they work with terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Two ISM founders described suicide bombings as "noble." A wanted Islamic Jihad terrorist was hidden from Israeli soldiers in an ISM office. ISM members have even slept in homes of suicide bombers to protect the structures from demolition.

3. Between 2000 and early 2003, hundreds of Israeli men, women and children had been murdered and thousands were injured in suicide bombings and other attacks by Palestinian terrorist groups. Israel had escalated its military operations against Palestinian terrorist groups and infrastructure in 2002 in an effort to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist violence. These operations continued into 2003, coinciding with Rachel Corrie’s 50-day stay in Rafah, Gaza. Less than two weeks before Rachel's death, a suicide bomber blew up a bus in Haifa killing 17, and wounding 53.

4. The bulldozers Rachel and her fellow “internationals” were trying to stop on March 16, 2003 in Rafah, were working to uncover part of the underground tunnel network used to smuggle explosives from Egypt, into Gaza. These tunnels had been built under civilian Arab homes and structures—perhaps against the will of their owners—in order to smuggle weapons and explosives into Israel. What Rachel and many of her “international” companions did not likely consider and were not told by their ISM handlers, was that for every tunnel they succeeded in saving, many more Israelis and Palestinians would suffer due to increased terrorism and Israeli military responses.

5. The ISM intentionally placed Rachel and other “internationals” between 50 ton bulldozers and Rafah homes. If successful, the terrorist weapons tunnels would remain intact; and if an “international” was injured, the ISM would achieve its goal of attaining international exposure and public sympathy for the "Palestinian plight." If you listen to the play, you'll hear that ISM encouraged untrained "internationals" to enter the line of fire by guarding wells at night and carrying stretchers into a war zone.

6. An investigation found Rachel's death to have been a tragic accident. On March 16, 2003, Rachel and other “internationals” spent the morning using their bodies to deter bulldozers from clearing brush and earth around homes in Rafah. According to a witness, hours into their effort, Corrie slipped as she moved in front of the bulldozer, fell in front of the slow moving blade and was crushed by unearthed debris. An investigation which included extensive interrogation of the driver and his commanders, with use of polygraphs and video evidence, revealed that the view of the driver was obstructed both by the debris Rachel stood in front of and by the bulldozer’s protective driver cage. An autopsy performed at the Tel Aviv Center of Forensics, confirmed the bulldozer had not touched Rachel.

7. Israel has always sought long-lasting peace with its Arab neighbors. Israel gave up all of Sinai, land three times the size of Israel proper, to have peace with Egypt. Israel and Jordan made peace in 1994. Israel unilaterally left its Lebanese buffer zone in 2000 despite a de facto state of war with Lebanon. In 2005 Israel unilaterally pulled 8,500 settlers out of Gaza. Israel wants a two state solution so that both Israelis and Palestinians can have a better future.

Hateful and misguided leftist.

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AMERICA!