A 'tribute' to Rachel Corrie

Jerusalem Post ^ | Mar. 1, 2004 | RUHAMA SHATTAN

[yonif]

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.

The writer is a translator, editor, and writer who has lived in Israel since 1976.

[mhking]

She's already been immortalized. After all, she's been "Scattered, Smothered & Covered".....

Just damn.

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[cardinal4]

Like the Walker-Lindhs, the Corrie parents were liberal enablers whose foolish indoctrination created and bred offspring that would do harm to the US..

[cmsgop]

No kidding....

[BlackElk]

I think that Rachel Corrie is Palestinian lunatic speak for Kent State. She got what she deserved and she will NOT be missed.

[dfwgator]

Do you think Rachel would like to have a "do over?"

[Spruce]

[John Frum]

I'm celebrating the anniversary of her demise by eating lots of flapjacks, each one representing her squished flat.

[IronJack]

I want to thank Rachel for selflessly giving up her young, promising life to grease a bulldozer's treads. And for providing endless giggles for people who refuse to wrap stupidity in martyrdom.

[weegee]

She got what she wanted: terrorist martyrdom.

[randog]

Blessed be St. Pancake of Olympia.

[LibWhacker]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Shades of Jacob's Ladder...

[thoughtomator]

Howabout a bulldozer rally?

[Prime Choice]

[theDentist]

I'm sure the brilliant Rachel is pondering her demise in the next life, wondering why she can stop a door with her foot and stance, but couldn't stop that big ol' Bulldozer the same way. 'At's a shame.

[glock rocks]

I'm just not going to say anything about flat women.

nope.

[Salem]

Slings is the panca—uh, pizza man. He always delivers!  

[Brad’s Gramma]

Oh, Mr. Glock. You are a WISE man!!!!!!!

[F16Fighter]

There once was a woman name Rachel

Who thought she'd play chicken with bulldozer

The bulldozer won

Now Rachel is done

And heavy earth-moving equipment is still undefeated