Posted on 10/03/2007 5:49:47 AM PDT by pabianice
...One form of nonviolent resistance pursued by the I.S.M. is stopping Israeli destruction of Palestinian farms, orchards and houses by interposing oneself between Israeli bulldozers and their target. One such example was Rachel Corrie, a U.S. citizen from Washington who had the courage to stand with the Palestinian people. On March 16, 2003, Corrie stood in front of the house of a Palestinian doctor and his family, attempting to prevent an Israeli bulldozer from destroying the home. She was clad in a fluorescent orange jacket, in the middle of a clear day, using a megaphone to try to stop the destruction.
The driver of the bulldozer, an Israeli who apparently thought he was only running over a Palestinian, dumped dirt upon Rachel, and proceeded to kill her by running her over.
Rachel Corrie was not a terrorist. The Palestinians with whom she was staying and trying to protect were not terrorists. Virtually none of the Palestinian people are terrorists. It is time to stop framing the debate as one between desperate terrorists and the fourth-largest military power in the world. The Palestinians are our brothers and sisters in humanity, and it is time we recognize that they deserve to be free from foreign occupation...
Jeff Napolitano is a Collegian columnist. He can be reached at jjnapoli@lrrc.umass.edu.
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This idiot writes “Why are the Palestinian people always left out of the conversation?” They’re not...they want Israeli destruction too...or didn’t you see them vote Hamas into power?
By the way, there is no Palestine and Rachel Corrie was a moron.
5.56mm
They're all about Peace.
Oh cry me a river... She had absolutely no business placing her self in the middle of a war zone, and especially an IDF bulldozer in said war zone. She got what she deserved being such a moron.
My G-d what a horror when I looked at the faces of these women named Rachel and then realized THEY ARE ALL DEAD.
The `humanity’ of the Palies? Not true of a nation of born killers. Children of disaster and a damn-ed race.
Humanity? Not bloody likely, mate.
I care not a whit for the Palestinians alleged “humanity.” The Palestinians are examples of humanity stripped of every virtue.
Thereby earning himself the Orkin Medal for eliminating antagonistic pests.
He should have sent the Corries a bill for cleaning the Rachel squish out of his treads.
We haven’t had a Rachel Corrie thread in a while! Too bad, because I enjoy expressing satisfaction at her meaningless death. She was a useful idiot, a tool of the extreme left wing professors at Evergreen State College that filled her head with nonsense and sent her to her death. Don’t blame the IDF for killing her; Evergreen and her stupid parents are the ones that signed her death warrant the day she enrolled in that communist training college. Anyone who is too stupid to get out of the way of a military bulldozer shouldn’t be breathing anyway. Rot in hell, Rachel Corrie, you America-hating, anti-semitic moron!
IIRC, the dozer operator couldn’t see where she was, given the limited field of vision. He did not deliberately run over Rachel Corrie, her death was an accident.
I want to live on his planet.
Just sent this to the author. His email address is posted at the end of the article: jjnapoli@lrrc.umass.edu
Before you suffocate in your self-righteous blather, have a look at this simple flyer which details eight Jewish women named “Rachel” who were killed by the humanity of PALESTINIAN suicide bombers. I’m sure you will weep many compassionate tears for them. Except that it doesn’t fit your left-wing agenda. I remind you that Palestinians dance in the streets upon the murder of Jews. So much for their “humanity”.
http://worldismad.unblog.fr/files/2006/10/corrieflyer.jpg
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