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Rachel Corrie's family sues Israel, IDF
Haaretz ^ | 3/15/05 | Amos Harel

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Washington; War on Terror
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To: Alouette

Not yet. At least, none that I could find. :)


121 posted on 03/15/2005 3:42:32 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Maybe she could play Kenny in one episode?


122 posted on 03/15/2005 3:43:16 PM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: conserv13
It was an accident, and she was loony. Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death. Watch the thread, you'll see.

Look, this girl was activily trying to help terrorists, we're talking about backing and helping people who want to commit murder.

She was no peace activist, her parents words regarding her make it clear that she was pretty hatefull.

So yes, alot of freepers are going to be happy that somone who wanted to help murders and criminals got ran over, though the driver of the bulldozer himself, did feel bad about it, and there are still some questions and different accounts about what happened before he started.

This girl will be missed by hezzbollah and hamas, but not by us.

123 posted on 03/15/2005 3:43:30 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Tamar1973
I heard Arabs developed Algebra but anyone who is bad at math would say that algebra ranks right up there with food poisioning. Hahahaha

I don't know how you might look at this, but most of the arabs worlds greatest accomplishments came before the advent of Islam.

The middle east used to be a traders delight and Mohammad himself was a merchant (though contrare to some missinformation, he was not christian, he belives in sand gods and gins and such before, according to him, he became a muslim, he also invested the term islam and muslim) since islams creation, the stagnation of progress in technology or commerce or just about anything, has been nothing short of incredible and something that should be studied and evaluated.

124 posted on 03/15/2005 3:50:16 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: TFFKAMM

125 posted on 03/15/2005 3:52:32 PM PST by dennisw (Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity)
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To: conserv13
Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death.

You must be joking. Either that or you are truly a moron. I feel sorry for the Israeli civilians that little dumb Rachael's friends murdered. Here's advice-don't stand in front of a bulldozer with a stupid sign. She got what she deserved. No loss.

Maybe her family should try the same stunt. I'd put the lawyers out front though.

Here is a thought, during war, kill your enemy. They did. Good riddance to another liberal. At least she won't reproduce more liberals. See, there is good in everything.

126 posted on 03/15/2005 3:54:44 PM PST by bfree (F the french and their friends)
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To: conserv13
...Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death...

Yeah, I wonder why... Looks like she was such a sweet girl...


127 posted on 03/15/2005 4:07:52 PM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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To: conserv13
...Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death...

Yeah, I wonder why...


128 posted on 03/15/2005 4:09:44 PM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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To: conserv13

St. Pancake's canonization two years ago is just proof that no matter how much liberals wish them away, certain laws apply to everybody. Physics among them.

}:-)4


129 posted on 03/15/2005 4:16:53 PM PST by Moose4 (So how long will it take Hunter S. Thompson to figure out he's dead and not on an acid trip?)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
130 posted on 03/15/2005 4:17:41 PM PST by SJackson (Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything, Andre Malraux)
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To: TFFKAMM

131 posted on 03/15/2005 4:19:21 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: SJackson
I remember renting the movie Cabaret - what was the title of the song?

Money, money, money... something like that.


132 posted on 03/15/2005 4:24:51 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Blzbba

I have no compassion for the flag-burning little commie twit. I take that back, I'm sorry she was so stupid.


133 posted on 03/15/2005 4:34:46 PM PST by CheneyChick
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To: BraveMan

ROTFLMAO!


134 posted on 03/15/2005 4:43:58 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: Alouette
click here
135 posted on 03/15/2005 4:49:04 PM PST by CheneyChick
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To: Blzbba

If one had the experience of dealing with Radicals every day you might change your mind. I have been called a Zionist butcher thousands of times. The self absorbed arrogant people are ripe for parody.

Bulldozer behind you!!!!!!!!!!!


136 posted on 03/15/2005 4:56:18 PM PST by Marano NYC
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To: TFFKAMM

Rachel Corrie was an ass who didn't realize that the laws of physics apply to her, too.

50kg girls do not stop 20,000kg bulldozers.

She should be a Darwin Award candidate.

Frankly, her family should be prosecuted for gross negligence in raising a moron.


137 posted on 03/15/2005 4:56:19 PM PST by PeterFinn ("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM. They can hate us all they want.)
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To: Semper Paratus
U.S. law doesn't apply. The law of Israel does recognize negligence and intentional torts as legitimate legal doctrines but the Act of State and sovereign immunity doctrines create an insurmountable barrier for the young woman's family. Tecnically she was a noncombatant in an area of state v. insurgency hostilities. But her chosen course of conduct, placing herself in the arena of those hostilities, removes any protection to which she otherwise might have been entitled as a mere civilian observer. Thus, under any form of nation/state negligence law or international negligence or intentional tort theory, the family's suit is doomed to failure.

Of course, the government may choose to settle the action, but that would be a political decision totally separate from legal necessity.

138 posted on 03/15/2005 5:03:41 PM PST by middie
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To: TFFKAMM

God should sue the Corries for how they treated their little girl when she was a child.


139 posted on 03/15/2005 5:20:33 PM PST by Red Sea Swimmer (Tisha5765Bav)
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To: Blzbba
1. I am Jewish and not bound by "turn your cheek".
2. Compassionate conservatism is liberalism with a sideorder of religiousity.
3. Rachel Corrie died defending terrorists. That makes her one in my book. Good riddence to the traitor.
140 posted on 03/15/2005 5:21:20 PM PST by rmlew (Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
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