[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[WOSG]

Okaaaaaaaaaaay ... here's a snippet. these dweebs are getting CREDIT for this "work" of agitating in the gaza strip ... will they also give 'credit' to any marine involved in Liberating Iraq??? Joe is from Kansas City, Missouri, and says he (like other Evergreen students) is getting independent study credit for his time in Rafah. He plans to gather the stories of local Palestinians and use them to write a play. "I saw ISM as a way that I could directly use my white, Western, American male privilege to directly serve underprivileged people of color," he says. Joe arrived in Rafah in January planning to stay only one month. Like a number of other ISM activists, he found he couldn't bring himself to leave. He now plans to stay through the summer. "This place is really addictive," he says.

article doesnt really delve into how this anachist group is supporting the PA activities. It's quite suspicious. helping defend arafat's compound is not 'humanitarian' it's a political act.

[Caipirabob]

IN SHORT, to quote another Freeper on another thread:

The Darwin Award competition is fierce this year!

[Fraulein]

"Joe is from Kansas City, Missouri, and he (like other Evergreen students) is getting independent study credit for his time in Rafah..."

[WOSG]

Rachel's friends in Rafah hasten to explain that Palestinian children at the demonstration were burning both American and Israeli flags, and that they had asked Rachel to participate. Rachel felt she could not burn an Israeli flag. She did, however, feel she could burn the flag of her own country.

Oh gee, that makes sense. NOT. rachel has a right to be anti-american but not anti-Israeli? so why arent the palestinians burning their own flags?

[FITZ]

Hidden behind the high cement walls that protect his courtyard garden, he looked through a small hole and watched the standoff between Rachel and the bulldozer unfold.

Strange how Rachel's "friends" allowed her to jump in front of the bulldozer but they themselves seem quite cowardly. They knew what she was going to do was stupid and dangerous ---but they wanted a martyr anyway they could get one.

[seams2me]

BTTT

[WFTR]

(Rachel's friends in Rafah hasten to explain that Palestinian children at the demonstration were burning both American and Israeli flags, and that they had asked Rachel to participate. Rachel felt she could not burn an Israeli flag. She did, however, feel she could burn the flag of her own country.)

It's obvious that in spite of all of the sympathetic press coverage, this bimbo is just another America hater. Her life and her death are sad, but her death is still just the death of another domestic enemy.

WFTR
Bill