Was this house worth her life? (The best and most complete Rachel Corrie article)

The Stranger ^ | 04/03/2003 | Eli Sanders

[DeepInEnemyTerritory]

Long, but good.

[LibKill]

"Stupidity is not a crime, but the punishment is death, the exectution is automatic and there is no appeal."

Robert A. Heinlein

[68skylark]

Long, but good.

Well, I'll agree it's long.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Bump for later.

[lelio]

My favorite part of this article was when Eli confronted one of the Marxist Evergreen College (Olympia, WA) ISMsers:

Bringing anarchy to this terrible conflict is like offering famine to starving people in Africa--people here have already had enough; they don't want any more. What they need--as they will tell anyone who will listen--is a political solution. What Joe offers is a wildly impractical dream that makes no sense.
Later, Tom tries his hand at answering the question: "I agree with you that it's a huge irony that we're helping, or at least ostensibly helping, build a state--that a lot of anarchists are doing that. They would reply, and to some extent I would reply, that what we are really here for isn't a state. We're here for the people, and as soon as they get a Palestinian state, we'll be against that one, too."

Tom's a little confused boy, but that's par for the course at the Marxist training ground in Olympia. People DON'T want strife in their life like this, but Tom wants to export it to the Pallies.

[cake_crumb]

Israel did not launch a 'preemptive' attack, starting the 6 Day War. Iarael RESPONDED to BEING attacked. And won.

[Cicero]

Long, and some informative details, but it really doesn't penetrate the surface. It's interesting to know that even as a little child Rachel ratted on her fellow schoolkids for breaking the rules in the playground. But what does that really say?

I suspect the causes are to be found back in America, in the 1960s, and in a closer look at her hippy/yuppie parents and her upbringing in the Seattle area.

[muir_redwoods]

Rachel Corrie was a self-centered exhibitionist whose purpose in life was to draw attention to herself. She threw herself into the path of an armored bulldozer operated by a soldier with limited view of his path. Her protest was an act of self-selection and the price of her stupidity and egoism is death. I am sorry her family chose to raise her in such a defective manner and I am sorry for the unnecessary acclaim such a pointless act has generated.

[Age of Reason]

"The Israelis attacked Egypt first, on June 5, 1967, but most historians agree the pre-emptive Israeli strike was defensive in nature."

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/index.html

[lilylangtree]

This ill-advised rash woman showed complete idiocy in using wisdom. To stand in front of a bulldozer and get mowed over defies logic. If a person is dead therein lies the end. Death is final. There's no returning. If this woman wanted to effect change, then live to fight another day. Even the owner of the pali house preferred the house to be demolished than lose a child. I've got problems with the people that influenced this woman as well as the thinking abilities of this woman. I can't honor nor abide stupidity.

[TopQuark]

closer look at her hippy/yuppie parents and her upbringing in the Seattle area.

Exactly.

But did you notice that this is a taboo topic? After the Colombine massacre, I could learn, despite my aversion to this emptiness, the caliber of pistols, trajectories of bullets, the music students liked --- anything but a single insight into their family. What family does it take for the parents not to notice a cache of weapons in the child's bedroom?

I guess, it is the instinct of self-protection. The "boomers," most self-centered generation in our history, has legiticmized the betrayal of parental duty. The newspaper writers and newscasters do not want to go "there," lest they themselves be asked. Much like the Germans after the WWII and the Russians today avoid asking, "What where you doing when..." I don't ask you, you don't ask me.

Interestingly, yours was the single most interesting point for me that made me read through. And this is the point --- parenting -- that was described the least.

[thegreatbeast]

Long, but full of useless masturbatory angst.
"Yet the sole reason that Rachel, Stefan, and the other ISM anarchists go to Rafah is to aid a people whose driving aim for four decades now has been the creation of a state." And the eradication of another.

[ValerieUSA]

It is interesting.
The best point made was the acceptance of hundreds of thousands of exiled Middle Eastern Jews into Israel, while Arab nations refuse to accept the Palestinians.
The notion that the creation of a Palestinian state is actually desired is mistaken.... they pass up every opportunity.

[ConservativeConvert]

A little too long...I gave up on it about 3/4 through. Rachel Corrie does not deserve a dissertation.

[Illbay]

Then our honored dead in this and other wars were just being "stupid?"

[Blue Jays]

Good Morning All-

DeepInEnemyTerritory, it's hard to believe that Rachel Corrie had done anything so compelling to warrant an article this long! ;-) There are probably some interesting insights in the article illustrating her various mental deficiencies...

She was an extremely arrogant and petulant punk. I never tire of seeing her in those angry photos screaming and burning the American flag. Good riddance.

~ Blue Jays ~

[Illbay]

I still have yet to have anyone here on FR explain to me why it was okay for the Israelis to try to knock down this house.

This Dr. Samir is not a terrorist. He didn't do anything wrong, except to build a house where the Israelis told him he could build it after the 1993 Oslo Accords.

Now, they want a "buffer zone" so they're knocking down private homes, and the Israel Sycophants on FR cheer.

I don't get it. Why the hypocrisy?

I don't get it.

[Illbay]

Can you believe it? We've had beaucoup "stupid" Marines and soldiers deliberately standing where they could be shot or blown up by the enemy!

[LibKill]

Then our honored dead in this and other wars were just being "stupid?"

NO! You missed the point altogether.

Rachel Corrie was stupid enough to sit in front of that moving bulldozer. A two-year-old child would be smarter than that.

[Illbay]

And some Marines have been hanging around where bullets and shells have been flying.

"Stupid"?