On March 16, 2004, one year after the death of my cousin Rachel Corrie, James Taranto, in his Best of the Web Today column, called Rachel's nonviolent efforts to protest the Israeli military's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories an encouragement of a "culture of hate." Mr. Taranto referred to an op- ed piece by Ruhama Shattan, originally published in the Jerusalem Post and reprinted on this Web site, as a "clearheaded tribute" to Rachel.
What kind of a name is "Brij Patnaik"? I think you're making this up, Huber!
On an earlier thread you suggested Corrie was knowingly protecting tunnels that the Arabs were using in conjunction with terrorist activities. Can you please verify that?
http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/127420.php Rachel Corrie, One Year Later
by Steven Plaut • Thursday April 15, 2004 at 10:23 PM
"The one-year anniversary of Rachel Corrie's demise has arrived."
Rachel Corrie, One Year Later
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 13, 2004
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 Corries 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 Corries 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.
You, sir, are an ignoramus to doubt that she was in bed with terrorists.
No more "answering a fool according to his folly" for me.
Nice post. A pic is worth a thousand words. The cousin can't be blind, because he speaks like someone right out of the pic.
