She certainly was trying for saintly icon status.
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. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098747/posts
A Tribute to Rachel Corrie
Thanks for showing us what "peace" really means.
BY RUHAMA SHATTAN
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
Today 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 the Associated Press 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 Palestine Liberation Organization, Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah 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 kaffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing us what peace really means.
Ms. Shattan is a translator, editor and writer who has lived in Israel since 1976. This article appeared in the Jerusalem Post.
Good e-mail about St. Flapjack.
She certainly was trying for saintly icon status.