Posted on 04/13/2004 12:55:50 AM PDT by rdb3
The one-year anniversary of Rachel Corrie's demise has arrived.
For those whose memories fail them in this matter, let me refresh things. Rachel Corrie was a young fanatic college student from Washington State, who decided she could make the world a better place by showing her solidarity with Middle East terrorism and Palestinian mass murderers. She joined the International Solidarity Movement, a communist-anarchist group who openly support Palestinian terrorism. Corrie set up shop in the Gaza Strip, where she and her ISM comrades spent their days trying to harass and provoke Israeli troops and interfere with Israel's anti-terrorist military operations. They would set up obstacles on roads to prevent Israeli troops and vehicles using them and otherwise assist and defend the terrorists.
In one such confrontation, Corrie was trying to block an Israeli army bulldozer that was knocking down homes of terrorists and buildings hiding tunnels through which weapons and explosives were being smuggled into the Gaza city of Rafiah from Egypt to Palestinian mass murderers. Corrie and her ISM comrades wanted to help protect the Gaza tunnels, and to protect the "right" of Palestinians to continue to mass murder Israeli civilians. In the confrontation, Corrie put herself in a position where the bulldozer driver could not see her, and she was dragged under the heavy machine. She died in a PLO ambulance or hospital shortly thereafter. The ISM then issued a host of "eyewitness" reports about the accident, claiming it was in fact cold-blooded murder, which turned out to be fabrications. The simple fact of the matter was that Corrie had figured the Israeli bulldozer driver could be cowed into backing off if he saw her blocking his access to the terrorist house, and she probably even figured the operator correctly, except he did not see her from his limited-visibility window on the rig.
Ever since her stupidity led to her death, Rachel Corrie has become the matron martyr saint for the pro-terrorism Left around the world, the Jean D'Arc of Palestinian terrorism. Her ISM friends declared she was "murdered" intentionally by Israel. Her death has been exploited by the Bash-Israel movement and by anti-Semites all over the world, as a means to delegitimize Israel. The PLO adopted her as mascot, declaring that she died "fighting Israel's security fence", and never mind that the building of the security fence was begun only well after she was dead.
After Corrie’s demise, other ISM pro-terrorists were also injured when they put themselves in the middle of firefights, triggered by PLO assault teams. Like Corrie, they were injured and one died trying to protect those terrorists from Israelis shooting back. In another fatal incident involving an ISM member (Tom Hurndall), the ISM led a world-wide campaign to demonize the soldier who shot the pro-terrorist interfering with a military operation. The soldier was an Israel Arab Bedouin patriot serving in the Israeli military.
Corrie's own parents have gone on their own revenge-jihad against Israel, touring the world to fan the demonization of Israel, and representing daughter Rachel as a "victim of Israel's illegal occupation."
They and other ISM supporters have been organizing a boycott of the Caterpiller Corporation because it sells machines to Israel, including the one with which Corrie chose to play "chicken" a year ago. All this reminds me of those people who sue McDonald's because they are obese. In their anniversary statement, Rachel Corrie's parents declared that Rachel "believed that the nonviolent activism that she was doing and supporting would make not only Palestinians but also Israelis and Americans more secure-- by supporting Palestinians who practice nonviolent rather than armed resistance."
But Rachel and her ISM friends believed in nothing of the sort and were doing nothing of the sort. The ISM should probably stand for "I Support Murderers." The official ISM web site endorses "armed struggle" by Palestinians, which means random mass murders of Israeli children and other living things.
Corrie died as a result of her own obtuseness. She was in Gaza to help promote Palestinian terrorism and to prevent Israel from protecting its own citizens. She died protecting the illegal tunnels into Gaza from Egypt, through which the suicide bombers obtained their materials. The most lasting images of Corrie was of her face contorted with rage as she burned an American flag. When Reuters reported that Palestinians "honored" her after her death in a "symbolic funeral" by flying US flags, James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal remarked that if Corrie were still alive, no doubt she'd have burned the flags. Even the Far-Leftist Mother Jones magazine considered her a dangerous and deluded little twit . The Israeli army investigated the death and concluded that Corrie had effectively committed suicide. Taranto also suggested that Corrie be awarded the "Idiotarian of the Year Award". A Darwin Award is in order.
The ISM is not simply an innocent, if evil, fringe debating society. Within Israeli territories, its members have actively collaborated with terrorists. They hid weapons and wanted terrorists in their offices. The local ISM offices hosted two Moslem suicide bombers from the UK, who had entered Israel as "peace activists", and who then blew a Tel Aviv bar to smithereens the next day. The ISM is so closely coordinated with the PLO that it is for all intents and purposes a PLO front group. More recently, ISM trouble makers have been trying to sabotage Israel's security fence, lest the fence prevent some Palestinian mass murderers from conducting atrocities and blowing up Israeli children and other civilians.
Yet despite the open endorsement of terror by ISM, it continues to enjoy US tax-exempt status as a "charity" and continues to enjoy gifts of megabucks from the usual culprits who fund the hate-America left. The liberal press continues to coo over the ISM as if it were a "peace group".
The Israeli government has been too pusillanimous and cowed by its fear of bad press to send the ISM pro-terrorists a-packing. While the ISM demonizes Israel, the very fact that it has been allowed to continue to operate its provocations within Israeli-controlled territory attests to how liberal and tolerant Israel has been. It is no coincidence that the same ISM people protecting homes of suicide bombers in the Gaza Strip and West Bank would never dare place themselves in jeopardy by blocking, say, US troops arresting Saddam Hussein in his Tikrit rat-hole or by protecting al-Qaeda or Taliban facilities in Afghanistan, or the terrorist headquarters in Fallujah, Iraq. The Corrie parents are not urging other deluded young undergraduates to rush to Fallujah to defend the homes of Iraqi terrorists under siege by American GIs to protest American "occupation" of Iraq. The ISM designer-jean "revolutionaries" and mall-Marxists would be mowed down mercilessly if they tried interfering with anti-terrorism operations anywhere in the world but in Israel.
In the past year Corrie and the other ISM supporters of terror who got themselves injured fighting for Palestinian terror were beatified constantly by the Western media. The Europeans and the American liberal newspapers continue to commemorate Rachel Corrie through attacking Israel every time it tries to deter terror by knocking down the home of a suicide bomber or by tearing down houses protecting smuggling tunnels or Gaza rocket production workshops. (Over 200 Palestinian rockets were fired into Israeli civilian areas from the Gaza Strip last year alone.)
Shortly after Rachel Corrie’s death, columnist Dennis Prager wrote: "So, Olympia, grieve for Rachel Corrie's parents, but spare us the hagiography. Rachel Corrie died fighting for the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian group dedicated, in its own words, to ‘armed struggle’ against Israel. She ended up being a useful idiot for, and one more victim of, Palestinian terror." Nothing could sum things up better.
I never have understood this picture.
Show 'em my motto!
SOME PEOPLE JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THAT SORT OF THING.
Rachel Corrie's parents in the keep of the serial murderer of Americans and other
innocents including elderly, children, and their terrorist-loving daughter.
As such, I don't shed a single tear for Rachel Corrie or her friends. May they all rot.
LOFL
LOL!! Took me a second...but it's early.
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