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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: TFFKAMM

Bulldozer 1, Rachel 0.


101 posted on 03/15/2005 2:59:23 PM PST by IronJack
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To: TFFKAMM

"Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep those 'dozers rollin'..."


102 posted on 03/15/2005 2:59:32 PM PST by RichInOC (...somebody had to post it...why not me?)
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To: finnman69
Thank you, Rachel Corrie, of Evergreen State University, where the profs wear khakis and kaffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing us what peace really means.

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.

103 posted on 03/15/2005 3:00:53 PM PST by Tamar1973 (The path to conservative brilliance starts at Free Republic!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Is that anything like "warm, dried and satisfied"?


104 posted on 03/15/2005 3:01:01 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: CheneyChick

The very flower of liberal American womanhood.


105 posted on 03/15/2005 3:01:55 PM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Thank ya kindly, sir. Great tagline!


106 posted on 03/15/2005 3:02:05 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had not feet.")
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To: TFFKAMM

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.


107 posted on 03/15/2005 3:02:41 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (When the left hates you, rejoice, for you are right!!!!!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

That is the funniest freakin' pic I've seen on this site!


108 posted on 03/15/2005 3:03:00 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: conserv13
Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death.

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.

109 posted on 03/15/2005 3:03:41 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: sauropod
Doin' good.

Seeing your posts ALWAYS brings a smile to my heart!

110 posted on 03/15/2005 3:07:50 PM PST by mommadooo3
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To: gopwinsin04
another 'product' of our wonderful Leftist Lib dominated
so-called higher education system....

this just isn't right (no pun intended)
111 posted on 03/15/2005 3:08:26 PM PST by injin
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To: Slings and Arrows
BWAAAAHAAAAHAAAA.

(gasping for air.)

Ya owe me a new keyboard!

112 posted on 03/15/2005 3:13:27 PM PST by mommadooo3
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To: TFFKAMM
Rachel and her dog take a trip to the sea...


113 posted on 03/15/2005 3:15:31 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: Slings and Arrows

Mmmm, pancakes!!!


114 posted on 03/15/2005 3:16:23 PM PST by TheOtherOne
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To: TFFKAMM

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....


115 posted on 03/15/2005 3:21:48 PM PST by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

"Her Indian name was probably Dances With Caterpillars ...."


No, it was "Dances UNDER Caterpillars".........


116 posted on 03/15/2005 3:25:43 PM PST by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: TFFKAMM

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.


117 posted on 03/15/2005 3:27:25 PM PST by rdcorso (We Are A Nation Fighting Against The Deadly Disease Of Liberalism)
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To: EveningStar

Hey is there a South Park Corrie character?


118 posted on 03/15/2005 3:33:03 PM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: rickmichaels
Can't think of a better reason for the bulldozer's driver to hit the gas pedal.

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.

119 posted on 03/15/2005 3:38:47 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: conserv13

I don't "celebrate her death", but I certainly don't mourn it, either...


120 posted on 03/15/2005 3:40:56 PM PST by clintonh8r (Heteronormative and PROUD!!)
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