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Parents demand answers from Israel in bulldozer death
CNN.com ^ | March 10, 2010 | By Paula Hancocks

Posted on 03/10/2010 6:29:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A 23-year-old American activist stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. The bulldozer drives over her, crushing her to death. These are the facts.

Rachel Corrie, along with colleagues from the International Solidarity Movement, was trying to prevent Israel from bulldozing homes in Rafah, close to the Egyptian border. Her activism cost her her life in March 2003.

A colleague said at the time, "Many times the bulldozer came up to us and buried us with dirt, but they always stopped."

Corrie's parents want to know the truth about their daughter's death, whether the killing was intentional and who is accountable.

Craig and Cindy Corrie's civil suit against Israel's defense ministry starts in Haifa, Israel, on Wednesday -- a court date that took years to reach.

"The more we found out, the more likely that the killing was intentional, or at least incredibly reckless," Craig Corrie said. "And, as a former soldier, I was even in charge of bulldozers in Vietnam... You're responsible to know what's in front of that blade, and I believe that they did."

The Israeli military carried out a month-long investigation, which found no Israeli soldier was to blame.

"The armored bulldozer crew involved in the incident did not see Ms. Corrie, who was standing behind the mound of earth, and was unable to see her or hear her voice," the military said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I guess it looks just like her now!!!


61 posted on 03/10/2010 7:22:02 AM PST by ontap
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To: ari-freedom

Leave me alone while I eat my waffle!!


62 posted on 03/10/2010 7:25:07 AM PST by ontap
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To: ari-freedom

LOL...nice


63 posted on 03/10/2010 7:25:28 AM PST by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This story leaves me... FLAT!
64 posted on 03/10/2010 7:26:45 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: wendy1946
The girl’s [liberal] parents and that hideous [liberal] school she attended killed her.

HAMMER. NAIL. HEAD.

65 posted on 03/10/2010 7:27:22 AM PST by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists".)
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To: greatdefender

Maybe they should call her Mrs. Butterworth.


66 posted on 03/10/2010 7:34:19 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
As the old saying goes, "Lie down with dogs -- wake up with fleas." "Lie down with bulldozers -- wake up in hell".
67 posted on 03/10/2010 7:40:58 AM PST by TXnMA (D'Aleo re Hansen's "GISS" temperature database: "Non Gradus Anus Rodentum!")
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To: ontap
Since Arafat has been dead for years I suspect the photo is not of the parents!!!

It is. It has been milked by her parents forever. They have tried to litigate everyone.
68 posted on 03/10/2010 8:09:35 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“It looks just like her... from the SIDE.”

ROTFLMAO!


69 posted on 03/10/2010 8:18:28 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
or at least incredibly reckless," Craig Corrie said.

Of course it wasn't reckless to protest in front of a bulldozer.

70 posted on 03/10/2010 8:20:54 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3JI-axaRF4


71 posted on 03/10/2010 8:23:30 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Tijeras_Slim

http://www.keshertalk.com/images/blogpix/corriearafat.jpg

“It looks just like her... from the SIDE.”

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OMG!! I spit out my coffee when I read that. Give a man some warning already....hehehehhehe


72 posted on 03/10/2010 8:29:50 AM PST by Hitlerys uterus (I have just about had it up to here with foreigners.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

PRO HAMAS GROUP

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land

In April 2002, with help from Palestinians, international activists were able to outmaneuver the Israeli military during two of its biggest military operations, entering and providing support to those trapped inside the Presidential Compound in Ramallah

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Adam Shapiro is the co-founder of, and the most visible American figure in, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The ISM is a pro-Hamas group that recognizes the Palestinians’ right to what it calls “armed struggle” in the form of suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians. The ISM invites Americans and Europeans to come to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to disrupt the anti-terrorist efforts of the Israeli Defense Force. Shapiro, a Brooklyn-born Jew, is infamous for having visited and acted as a human shield for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat while Arafat’s Ramallah compound was surrounded by the Israeli Defense Force in April 2002. This occurred in the aftermath of a Palestinian massacre of 30 Israelis – some of them Holocaust survivors – at a Passover seder shortly after the Intifada was launched.

In November of 2003, Shapiro took part in the Third Annual National Student Conference On Palestine Solidarity, where terrorist acts were publicly defended; the event was held at Ohio State University. Shapiro is credited with saying, “Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics, both violent and nonviolent.”

Shapiro, who wishes to see Israel destroyed, candidly states that he does not consider himself a Jew. He and his wife, Palestinian-American activist Huwaida Arraf, have become the spokespeople for the ISM in the United States. In articles on the ISM website where they discuss their goals of dismantling Israel by supporting Palestinian terrorists, they use euphemisms such as “legitimate resistance” and “legitimate armed struggle” while claiming that they are nonviolent. The ISM uses as its motto “by any means necessary.”


73 posted on 03/10/2010 8:35:44 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Tijeras_Slim

*LOL* Most people don’t realize that not a painting of Rachel, but a statue.


74 posted on 03/10/2010 8:42:15 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never take an activist to a bulldozer fight.


75 posted on 03/10/2010 8:46:22 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

76 posted on 03/10/2010 8:50:02 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: rdl6989

Maybe they should call her Mrs. Butterworth.

or Aunt Jemima


77 posted on 03/10/2010 10:39:58 AM PST by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: ontap
Bon Appetit! Here is a second serving
78 posted on 03/10/2010 10:54:58 AM PST by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Parents demand answers from Israel in bulldozer death,”

I recommend that movie classic, “Killdozer”. It demonstrates that in a man (or woman) against dozer contest, the dozer most often wins.

What was the question again?

79 posted on 03/10/2010 12:14:23 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Many times the bulldozer came up to us and buried us with dirt, but they always stopped."

"Ah've always been dependent on the kindness of bulldozah drivahs whose people Ah hate."

80 posted on 03/10/2010 3:10:07 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Election: The process of hiring an employee you hope will steal less from you than the others do.)
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