Posted on 09/08/2010 1:46:04 PM PDT by matt1234
The parents of a pro-Palestinian activist who died during a protest in Gaza 2003 have arrived in Haifa to pursue a civil court case against the state of Israel.
The second stage of the Rachel Corrie case opened yesterday in Haifa’s district court. The American activist died aged 23 in March 2003 after being crushed by an IDF bulldozer.
She had come to Rafah at the height of the Palestinian intifada with the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, to demonstrate against the demolition of houses.
An Israeli military investigation into what happened said that Ms Corrie had died during an armed conflict and that the Israeli soldiers were not to blame. It also claimed negligence on Ms Corrie’s part.
It found that the bulldozer driver had not seen Ms Corrie as she had been hidden from view by dirt the machine had thrown up. She was struck by slabs of concrete, which killed her.
Cindy and Craig Corrie of Olympia, Washington, claim that the investigation was not comprehensive enough and that their daughter’s death was intentional.
Their lawyer, Hussein Abu Hussein, said: "It is clear that the army investigation was very far from being sufficient, thorough or impartial."
In 2007 the Corrie’s tried to sue bulldozer manufacturer Caterpillar. They said the company knew that it sold the bulldozers to Israel for “human rights violations.”
She dove in front of it, and, bulldozers ( contrary to poplular belief ), cannot stop on a dime............................
I Imagine it was a disgusting sight to behold....
She was insane....
I will not apologise....
This is crushing news.....
It did back then. Took the award with olive branches for stupidity.
She would through them out with a real verbal spanking for sure.
As they are, as they taught her everything she knew.
LOLOLOL!!
I did see that. Definitely quite noticeable. Truly a WTF moment.
Excellent!
Probably the best it happened... an idiot on american jihad. Could have been worse. She could have lived and married a Palastinian and mothered another Barak....
THE DEATH OF THE FLAT RACHAEL CORRIE
Borrowed from BastardSword Blog
http://armor.typepad.com/bastardsword/2004/01/the_death_of_th.html
THE DEATH OF THE FLAT RACHAEL CORRIE
(to the tune “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”)
Oh the legend lives on from Palestinians on down
Of the big thing they call a bulldozer
The dozer, it’s said, always flattens its dead
When the left wing protesters turn looney.
With a carbon steel frame sixty-two metric tons more
Than the flat Rachael Corrie weighed empty.
The blade it is true is a thing to be feared
When the treads of the dozer start rolling.
The Cat was the pride of the Israeli side
Coming back from some hill in the Gaza
As the big dozers go, it was bigger than most
With a diesel of four hundred horses.
Concluding some berms with a couple of quick turns
Then they left fully fueled up for Rafah
When later that day her megaphone sang
Could it be that dumb witch they was hearin’?
The dirt in the treads made a tattle-tale sound
As the mud broke over the blading
And every man knew, as Miss Corrie did too,
T’was a big Caterpillar come dozin’.
The blade came down and the dumb twit stood her ground
When the D9 bulldozer came plowin’.
Devoid of good sense and ignoring all risk
She turned her back on the oncoming dozer.
When it finally came, the dumb witch kept her place, sayin’
Surely, they’ll stop what they’re doing.
Under the tread her air pathway caved in, she said
Dammit, this shouldn’t have happened!
Her friends called in that the blonde witch was down,
And the bomb storage house was in peril.
And later that day when her lights went outta sight
Came the death of the flat Rachael Corrie.
Does any one know where the sense of libs go
When the blade turns the minutes to hours?
The soldiers all say she’d have got out okay
If she’d put fifteen more feet behind her.
She might have been crushed or she might have split wide;
May have broke ribs and her bladder.
And all that remains is the traces and the stains
Of her imprint, the tread tracks and splatter.
Arafat stews, Hizbollah spews
From the rooms of their compounds in Gaza.
The ISM screams like a spoiled preteen
They voice their support for the terror.
And don’t we all know, when the buses explode
They’ll march out their apologists willing,
Now activists go as the drivers all know
With the big caterpillars remembered.
In a musty old room in Ramallah they prayed,
In the ISM office of terror.
The door bell chimed till it rang seventy-two times
For each cleat on the big Caterpiller.
The legend lives on from Palestinians on down
Of the big thing they call a bulldozer.
The dozer, they said, always flattens its dead
When left wing protestors turn looney!
And the college she attended which aggravated what her parents started.
“Israel should sue the scumbags that raised her to be a Idiot and terrorist trainee.)
And the college she attended which aggravated what her parents started.”
Good Point, The leftists professors finished the job and helped send that nut job into a war zone.
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