A year of silence since Rachel Corrie died [Barf Alert; Rachel Corrie’s cousin spews lies]

International Herald Tribune ^ | Wednesday, March 3, 2004 | Elizabeth Corrie

[yonif]

ATLANTA, Georgia Only a year ago, 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. 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 nine-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 the demolition of a home, a common practice of the Israeli Army's collective punishment that has left more than 12,000 Palestinians 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 regular U.S. aid package to Israel, which amounts to $3 billion to $4 billion annually, all of it 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 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; Tom Hurndall, a British citizen, was shot in the head on April 11 and died Jan. 13, and James Miller, another British citizen, was also shot and killed in April. To date, only in Hurndall's case will the Israeli soldier responsible for the attack face trial, and this is 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 U.S. citizen can be killed with impunity by a soldier from an allied nation receiving massive U.S. aid, using a product manufactured in the United States by a U.S. corporation and paid for with U.S. tax dollars. When three Americans were killed, presumably by Palestinians, in an explosion on Oct. 15, 2003, as they traveled through Gaza, the FBI came within 24 hours to investigate the deaths. After one year, neither the FBI nor any other U.S.-led team has done anything to investigate the death of an American killed by an Israeli.

Why the double standard? Perhaps this reveals the most disturbing truth of all.

Elizabeth Corrie is an administrator and teacher in a school in Atlanta.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I just had a very mean,unchristian thought about Rachel Corrie. Am I a bad person???

Nope. Quite the opposite, actually.

[Publius6961]

Hmmmmm.
In addition to magically being able to "change" itself, the bulldozer magically stripped her of ther red jacket. Now, that is impressive! How did it do that?

[N. Theknow]

Rachel Corrie?

I heard she moved to a new flat.

[cyborg]

Oh okay I feel much better... I can still be a compassionate conservative and be mean to people who deserve it. Goodie!

[Interesting Times]

A year of silence since Rachel Corrie died

That's hardly fair. Why, we've had dozens of threads here debunking all the lies about her death spewed by her fellow leftists, memorializing her hate-twisted countenance, and jeering at her stupidity.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Rachel Corrie, Johnny Taliban, its all the same to me. These are scum bags who get their kicks by going to a foreign place full of hateful animals, then looking like a hero to those animals by being the white person who is bashing America. How about some real courage, and come spew that filth at the 9/11 ground zero site.

Actually, the former Rachel Corrie reminds me of Lori Berenson -- textbook example of what happens when limousine liberal parents with more pseudosophistication and money than brains allow their children to go to third world countries and try to "play" in their political intrigues.

But instead of coming home to Gramercy Park, to thrill her friends and cocktail party associates with tales of mingling among the third-world simpletons and participating in a "revolution," she's in prison in Peru, after being convicted as a terrorist.

   

[NYC GOP Chick]

Damn! You're on a roll today!

[NYC GOP Chick]

You can feel better about it because she meant harm to innocent Israeli citizens -- and to us, as well! I can guarantee you that in the days (even hours) after 9/11, she was railing about how we got what we deserved.

[cyborg]

OH PLEASE!!!! I went to Nassau where her mom? teaches. I think it's her mom but either way, her stupid poster was up all over campus and yes I did sure rip some of them down. Little miss liberal went to play terrorist and got caught.

[doug from upland]

If anyone has a message for her or wants to direct her to this thread, here you go --- ecorrie@lovett.org

[bondjamesbond]

Hey, Guys!

You missed a spot!

[cyborg]

ROTFLMAO I just love FReeper sense of humor

[rageaholic]

Surprised she didn't get a Darwin award. Good riddance.

[bondjamesbond]

Ahhh. A classic.

[JoJo Gunn]

Yep. I've noted in another thread that the shadows on the blade indicate the sun was pretty much behind the dozer, even though Corrie the Collaborator has a shadow to her left. The blade should have a shadow to its right, then.

And as LindaSOG has posted in #31, to me the horizons don't match at all. And to my eyes the dozer blades are of different sizes/widths.

[petercooper]

Rest In Hell, Rachel

[knighthawk]

Muahhhahhaaaaahhhaaaaa

(diabological laughter)

[knighthawk]

LOL!

[cyborg]

*LOL* Freepers are too funny