Posted on 03/15/2005 1:36:57 PM PST by TFFKAMM
The family of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Rafah two years ago, sued the State of Israel and the IDF for damages in the Haifa District Court on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003 when she tried to block an IDF bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian house near the Philadelphi Route, the strip of land in the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt.
An IDF investigation ruled the incident was an accident and that the driver did not see Corrie, and the military prosecutor's office decided not to press charges in connection with Corrie's death.
Corrie's parents, brother, and sister, who are represented by Umm al-Fahm attorney Hussein Abu-Hussein, argue Corrie was killed despite the fact that she was wearing bright clothing and had identified herself as an activist with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement.
Corrie's family argues that the bulldozer driver intentionally used unreasonable force. According to the family, there was no fighting in the area at the time and there was no threat to soldiers' lives.
The family has asked for roughly $324 thousand in direct damages, as well as punitive damages. They also said they have yet to receive all of the material from the IDF investigation into the matter.
that's a bucket loader. bulldozers have the flat blades;-)
ROFL - I blame google. I asked for bulldozer and that's what they gave me. Maybe I should sue.
These people remind me of Lori Berenson (Peru) and her equally loathesome parents. Go to a country, try to overthrow their government, then cry and whine when you reap the consequences.
"You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't sit down in front of a moving bulldozer"
Her Indian name was probably Dances With Caterpillars ....
What? Wearing bright colors and identifying yourself as a nut job isn't sufficient to bend light around corners?
Clear evidence that the laws of physics were put in place by a VRWC.
I agree. It was an accident, and she was loony. Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death. Watch the thread, you'll see.
darn i was going to say that... pretty soon st. patrick's day will be renamed st. pancake day... (stole that from steve plaut).... here is his recent email blast on the subject....
Subject: The Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Suicide on Behalf of Terrorists
March 16 is the second anniversary of Rachel Corrie's idiotic decision to commit
suicide by challenging an Israeli bulldozer driver to a game of chicken. Corrie
won the game, at the cost of her life.
Corrie was in Israel as part of the Solidarity-with-Terrorism delegations sent
in by the pro-terror ISM (International Solidarity Movement), an organization of
anti-Israel propagandists in designer jeans, all in close, indeed slavish,
coordination with the PLO. The ISM pro-terrorists have set up a memorial web
site to lie about how she died. They are holding a big Bash-Israel commemoration
in Oakland this week. Corrie has become the martyr saint for the Islamofascist
movements. The ISM hates Jews so much that it is willing to demonize Arab
Israeli patriots as part of its jihad against Zionism.
The ISM is not simply an innocent, if evil, fringe campus debating society.
Within Israeli territories, its members have actively collaborated with
terrorists. They have hidden 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," only to blow a Tel Aviv bar to
smithereens the next day.
In fact, Corrie died protecting smuggling tunnels, used to smuggle in explosives
and weapons that Palestinians use to mass murder Israeli children on buses and
other living things. Israeli troops were demolishing houses astride the tunnels
in order to dynamite the tunnels when Corrie decided to challenge them. Like all
ISM members, Corrie believed the PLO and its affiliates have an unalienable
right to murder Jews, and that Jews trying to stop the terrorists must be
hindered and harassed. That is the whole reason why ISM routinely sends its
campus "anarchists" to Israel. It should be noted that ISM does not
send its members to protect Chechnyan terrorists from Russians nor to protect
Baathists in Fallujah, because they know how non-Israelis would handle such
trouble-makers. Ironically, the very fact that they come to Israel and not to
other countries is testimony to Israel's democracy, openness, tolerant nature,
and probably excessive patience.
Corrie was a US Flag-burning extremist, someone who clearly sympathised with
Palestinians conducting murder, but felt no "solidarity" at all for
the Israeli children murdered by terrorists. The great irony was that the
bulldozer operator whom Corrie was trying to harass did not see her at all. Had
he seen her, Corrie's strategy of forcing the dozer to back down in the game of
chicken would have worked.
After commiting suicide, Corrie was beatified by the anti-Jewish anti-American
Left, turned into the patron saint of the jihadniks and their leftist amen
choruses. It is not surprising that Counterpunch runs a piece this week by a
propagandist trying to convince readers that Corrie was something other than a
23 year old dupe of terrorists. It is written by one Alison Weir, who runs an
anti-Israel web site called "If Americans Knew". The site presents
tendentious statistics showing that more Palestinians have been injured or
killed in recent years than have Israelis. This is supposed to "prove"
the Israelis are iun the wrong, and is about as convincing as an attempt to
claim that Americans were the aggressors in World War II because the numbers of
Americans killed by Germany and Japan were fewer than the Japanese and Germans
killed by the Americans.
In typical Jew-bashing leftist manner, Weir ignores the fact that the Jews in
question were murdered in cold blood, while the Palestinians killed were either
terrorists or civilians caught in the crossfire when Palestinian terrorists
opened fire from amongst civilians. The number of innocent Palestinian civilians
intentionally killed by Israel is a great big whopping zero.
In Weir's parallel universe, " Congress is intimidated into denying her
parents' right to an investigation of the American 'ally' who murdered their
daughter." Congress would be better advised to investigate who is funding
Weir's little web site and maybe also investigate parents like the Corries who
cavalierly send their children off to war zones to promote terrorism and
interfere with anti-terror operations by democracies. As Dennis Prager wrote:
"Rachel Corrie chose to side with a society that breeds some of the
cruelest murderers of innocent people in the world. Rachel Corrie gave her life
trying to protect people whose declared aim is to annihilate another country. In
the name of saving children's lives, Rachel Corrie chose to defend a society
that teaches its young children to blow themselves up and which deliberately
targets children for death. And Rachel Corrie went to America's enemies to burn
her country's flag. "
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RACHEL CORRIE UPDATE - still registered to vote in Washington State
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333422/posts
And for other great links about the not so great late Rache Corrie:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rachelcorrie
Where is that Aunt Jemima pic?
When it comes down to me against a bulldozer, guess who's going to move first.
Pancake ping..
I'm sure the autorities are probably only trying to protect the family's feelings by not publically revealing Rachael's toxicology report. My bet is that the young lady was zonked out of her mind by drugs or alcohol or both and wouldn't have noticed the bulldozer under any circumstances. She did not employ due caution or caution of any degree when she went in harm's way. Now, she'd not only dead but her family is SOL and looking stupid.
I heard Arabs developed Algebra but anyone who is bad at math would say that algebra ranks right up there with food poisioning. Hahahaha.
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