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.

[glock rocks]

LOL

otoh, never argue with a woman who has a pair of 45's

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm not responding.

Nope.

Not a word.

[JoJo Gunn]

[glock rocks]

What on earth were you thinking?

[Brad’s Gramma]

You did that on purpose, didn't you? You sat there and HOPED I'd take the bait. I have a LONG MEMORY, Mister.

[snippy_about_it]

Ask them what evil capitalist corporations their parent’s work for to pay for their tuition.

LOL. That'll keep 'em tongue tied!

[Slings and Arrows]

Why thank you very much! Have another:

[RightWingAtheist]

Can someone post an image from the Beavis and Butthead cartoon where they run over the hippie with a monster truck?

[Cinnamon Girl]

All the pictures posted on this thread are MEAN SPIRITED.

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"Kids, pancake jokes can be lots of laughs. But terrorism kills. So don't be a dumbass."

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks; I try. Also take a look at post #67.

[BlueLancer]

"Really, think about it, have you ever seen anyone being chased by a bulldozer???"

[BayouCoyote]

BAWAWAAWA!!!!!!

[bondjamesbond]

Hey guys! You missed a spot!!!

[weegee]

BUMP for later read (good post).

[Callahan]

My concern is for the bulldozer. Those stains can be hard to get out.