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.
Bulldozer 1, Rachel 0.
"Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep those 'dozers rollin'..."
This explains alot. Maybe the parents should sue Evergreen State University for brainwashing her into becoming a terrorist lackey. I would consider supporting that lawsuit.
Is that anything like "warm, dried and satisfied"?
The very flower of liberal American womanhood.
Thank ya kindly, sir. Great tagline!
Some rational adults, preferably her parents, should have taught Rachel that the reason heavy equipment goes beep,beep, beep when it is backing up is because the driver behind him and must depend upon anyone behind having sense enough to get the h*ll out of the way.
That is the funniest freakin' pic I've seen on this site!
I see your point, but the word odious hardly begins to describe Ms. Corrie and her behavior. I cannot help feeling pangs of Schadenfreude at the delicious irony of her demise.
I find her odious, at least in part, because I find her not to be motivated by love or concern for the downtrodden, but by hatred. I think there is truly something genetic that makes some people haters, makes them nurse resentments and hold some sort of grudge against the world.
Mother Teresa and Albert Schweitzer, it seems to me, were motivated by deeply rooted compassion, colored by religious convictions. Marx, Lenin and Corrie were motivated by pathological demonic resentments, colored by megalomaniacal messianic ego trips.
Seeing your posts ALWAYS brings a smile to my heart!
(gasping for air.)
Ya owe me a new keyboard!
Mmmm, pancakes!!!
Israel should counter-sue these imbecilic parents for all expenses associated with dealing with the jihadist-lover Rachel Corrie..... in some cases kids do nutty things against their upbringing (especially when brainwashed on leftist campuses), but in this case young foolish Rachel seems to have acted very much in accordance with the views of her parents, and they purport to be 'proud' of their suicidal nutcase of a daughter..... let them pay for all the expenses their daughter caused in her defense of terrorists....
"Her Indian name was probably Dances With Caterpillars ...."
No, it was "Dances UNDER Caterpillars".........
If there is any punishment to be handed out for her death it should go to her parents and the organization that helps terrorist.She died because the people around her let her go through life thinking she was so special that she could stop a bulldozer by standing in front of it.
Hey is there a South Park Corrie character?
For the record, the driver did not intentionally kill her.
There are still some questions about what happened before he ran her over, but he did feel very bad about it, and does regret her death.
Personally, I'd have backed up over her after running her over.
I don't "celebrate her death", but I certainly don't mourn it, either...
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