The Rachel Corrie Memorial Massacre -

Opinion Journal ^ | October 15, 2003 | James Taranto

[UnklGene]

The Rachel Corrie Memorial Massacre

Remember Rachel Corrie? She was a mixed-up 23-year-old lass from Olympia, Wash., whose hobbies included playing in traffic and burning the American flag. Last March the former pastime cost her her life. She stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer, but was in the driver's blind spot and was accidentally crushed to death.

Corrie's fatal game of chicken was the product of malice as well as idiocy. Her goal was to promote Palestinian terrorists' murderous campaign against Jews by obstructing Israeli efforts to destroy tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt into the Palestinian "refugee camp" in Rafah, on the Gaza Strip.

Today Palestinian terrorists murdered at least three Americans on the Gaza Strip, reports the Jerusalem Post:

A massive explosion demolished a US armored jeep carrying US diplomatic and CIA officials Wednesday, killing at least three Americans and critically wounding one.

Minutes after 10 am, a large road side bomb went off under a convoy of 3 US diplomatic vehicles, backed by a Palestinian police escort, driving pass a gas station on the outskirts of the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli security sources confirmed the explosion killed at least three Americans, identifying them as US citizens acting as security guards in the targeted vehicle.

And where did the bombs come from? Here's a report from the Israeli group IMRA:

Brig. Gen (res.) Zvi Poleg told Israel Radio in an interview after the attack that the explosives could have been smuggled from Egypt through the smuggling tunnels. Poleg charged that Egypt was violated its treaty obligations in allowing the smuggling of weapons, explosives and ammunition from Egypt to the Palestinians via smuggling tunnels. He noted that members of the Egyptian Army have been involved in the smuggling and that the Egyptians are well aware of the operations but have not acted to stop the operations. He noted that over 60 smuggling tunnels were located and destroyed by Israel in the last year.

The Egyptians, who receive billions in American foreign aid as a reward for making "peace" with Israel a quarter century ago, have a lot of explaining to do. And it appears terror advocates like Rachel Corrie now have American as well as Israeli blood on their hands.

[Poohbah]

F*** using a bulldozer. Use a B-83.

[Support Free Republic]

Thank you very much, thank you very much!
It isn't every day, good fortune comes me way
I never thought the future would be fun for me!
And if I had a bugle, I would blow it to add a sort
o' how's your father's touch.
But since I left me bugle at home, I simply have to say
Thank you very, very, very much! Thank you very, very, very much!

[Cicero]

Pretty strong stuff on an American girl who died young, but I'm afraid it's fully justified.

[JoJo Gunn]

Even Hitler was once a bouncing bundle of cuddlejoy....

[ambrose]

bump.

[ArrogantBustard]

I think Irael is downwind of the target.

[Dialup Llama]

Israel needs to destroy both the house the tunnel families actually lived in (which they regard as disposable) AND the house given to them as a reward.

[HiJinx]

Hamas and Islamic Jihad like to claim that their attacks are merely 'tit for tat' retaliation against Israeli aggression.

This clearly wasn't. This diplomat, Wolf(e), was in the Strip to interview Palestinian yout's for Fulbright Scholarships.

So, is it now our turn to retaliate?

Yeah, I would. I mean, we do have the U.S. 7th Fleet parked nearby, do we not? Not to mention, one heckuva lot of combat capacity sitting right there in Iraq, Qatar, etc.

So what do we do? Well, let's ask the IDF to identify their next 6 targets, and offer to service the first three for them. In about 6 hours. Yeah, that sounds about right. You wanna see shock & awe? We'll show you shock & awe, baby!!!

Don't start an a$$-kickin' contest with the cowboy who's wearin' the biggest boots on the planet.

[Mears]

And we keep sending billions to Egypt. We are saps!!

[Poohbah]

Yeah, I would. I mean, we do have the U.S. 7th Fleet parked nearby, do we not?

6th Fleet. 7th Fleet is based in Yokosuka, Japan.

I still vote for "Take off and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure."

[HiJinx]

Doh!! I knew that...Dad manned a minesweeper with them back in the day.

I gotta admit, nukes bother me...too much long-term and collateral damage. A MOAB, on the other hand...

After today's bombing, I can't find it within myself to feel any pity for anyone in the so-called occupied territories. They ask for every bit of grief the Israelis and the US hand 'em.

As for us financing them...that's just wrong.

[GunnyHartman]

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

AGREED!

[TexasCowboy]

How does that song go?

"These boots are made for walking,
And that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these boots
Are gonna walk all over you!"

You betcha!
Wipe the Palestinians off the face of the earth!

Poohbah, I like the way you think!

[wizardoz]

This diplomat, Wolf(e), was in the Strip to interview Palestinian yout's for Fulbright Scholarships.

I swear, I swear, I swear I don't mean to laugh like this.....

[HiJinx]

Well, you're quite welcome...!

[Thinkin' Gal]

These tunnels and the tunnelers deserve the Carl Spackler treatment.

[CARepubGal]

The Marines make sense and I am sure there is some nice MEU who would LOVE to avenge their brothers (241 dead in Beiruit) :-) The moon god's cult of death is truly a sick one.

[Alouette]

FRmail me to be added or removed from this pro-Israel ping list.

[Slings and Arrows]

At this, point, I'm all for demolishing the homes of terrorist collaborators in the United States. We can start with the Corries' house.