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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.


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To: conserv13

Then stay out of the thread, if it makes you so squeamish. I don't recall anyone pleading for your input in the first place.


61 posted on 03/15/2005 2:14:55 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: finnman69
What a wonderful idea!

That means we got a whole month to pledge donations toward a brand new D9 to be donated to Israel to help clean ut the trash.
Sign me up for a donation...

62 posted on 03/15/2005 2:16:39 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
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To: Alouette

LOL! Good one!


63 posted on 03/15/2005 2:16:44 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: sauropod
I don't know what this thread is about...

So here is a picture of a bunny with...

Naaaah! It's too darn easy!

64 posted on 03/15/2005 2:17:42 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: APRPEH

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098747/posts

A Tribute to Rachel Corrie
Thanks for showing us what "peace" really means.

BY RUHAMA SHATTAN
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST

Today is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending.

Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom--oops, death--have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and her friend in the February 22, 2004 bombing) and leaving hundreds more widows, orphans and bereaved parents.

On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing Palestinian children how to despise America as she snarled, burned an American flag, and led them in chanting slogans, and as she gave "evidence" at a Young Palestinian Parliament mock trial finding President Bush guilty of crimes against humanity.

Perhaps her help in fanning the flames of violent anti-American sentiment led to the October 2003 bombing of the Fulbright delegation to Gaza to interview scholarship candidates, killing three. There will be no new crop of Palestinian Fulbright scholars this fall.

On the first anniversary of her death, I wanted to thank Rachel Corrie for providing her organization, the Palestinian-sponsored International Solidarity Movement, with the opportunity to release a manipulated photo sequence "showing" an Israeli military bulldozer deliberately crushing her. (I would also like to thank the Associated Press and the Christian Science Monitor for taking up the baton and immortalizing this cynical ISM stunt.)
On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing the way to all those who seek peace in the Middle East. Unfortunately, Corrie's peace, as anyone familiar with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah organizations that she defended with her life knows--or as anyone familiar with the weekly rants of the Friday preachers in the Palestinian mosques is aware--means not peaceful coexistence but the elimination of the state of Israel, and death to those they call "the usurping Jews, the sons of apes and pigs."

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.

Ms. Shattan is a translator, editor and writer who has lived in Israel since 1976. This article appeared in the Jerusalem Post.


65 posted on 03/15/2005 2:17:47 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: mgc1122
Her Indian name was probably Dances With Caterpillars ....

LOL! Or maybe Dunces With Caterpillars.

66 posted on 03/15/2005 2:19:05 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: mgc1122
Her Indian name was probably Dances With Caterpillars ....

How about...

"Runs-with-Tomahawk"

"Two-Poles-Short-Of-A-Wigwam"

"Paleface Pancake"

67 posted on 03/15/2005 2:20:47 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Tamar1973
That was the Indians, NOT the moslems. Look at the modern difference.

Highly skilled and demanding work gets outsourced to India. (and no I don't like it, at least when it comes from America)

What do moslems do? What grand works have they completed?
They conquered intelligent people for what they have. In any event they sure as hell haven't come up with anything new in a thousand years.

Once I read about a Saudi who referred to the Saudi people as "managers".

I can think of no greater insult. And that is all they aspire to be.

Whenever you hear about moslem doctors they are always in charge of terrorist cells. They are a lost and pathetic people.

Maybe that will change, but I won't hold my breath.
68 posted on 03/15/2005 2:21:26 PM PST by Anvilhead
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To: Semper Paratus; uncleshag
MIDI - COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER

In a PLO town was a girl named Rachel Corrie
She was reading to children anti-American stories
She was brainwashed by mom and dad
By her college professors was had
But one day she would run out of luck and things turned out ba-a-ad

Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, you can't touch this house...I'll stand in your way
Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, Jews must be stopped...this will not be your day

She was burning our flag with the little terrorists cheering
And to the scum of the earth she became someone who's quite endearing
She was brainwashed by her mom and dad
By her college professors was had
But one day she would run out of luck and things turned out ba-a-ad

Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, you can't touch this house...I'll stand in your way
Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, Jews must be stopped...this will not be your day

You must wear a hard hat when you work around big equipment
She became a squished pancake...I hope that isn't too flippant
She was brainwashed by mom and dad
By her college professors was had
But one day she would run out of luck and things turned out ba-a-ad

Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, you can't touch this house...I'll stand in your way
Hello, Mr. Bulldozer, Jews must be stopped...this will not be your day

69 posted on 03/15/2005 2:22:46 PM PST by doug from upland (Coming soon -- YOU'VE BEEN FREEPED, Vol. 1.; Biden and Kennedy won't like it)
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To: conserv13
Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death. Watch the thread, you'll see.

Makes you sick????

That's the only reason I'm reading this thread! Some timeless hilarity has resulted from previous St. Pancake threads.

70 posted on 03/15/2005 2:23:54 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: mommadooo3
I hear the call, and I will answer it.


71 posted on 03/15/2005 2:25:08 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: gopwinsin04

Ah yes, a traitor of her own country.


72 posted on 03/15/2005 2:25:54 PM PST by youngtory (Rights are rights are rights. Just like a proof is a proof is a proof.-Liberal dorks.)
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To: TFFKAMM

I think Rachel Corrie's parents need to be sued for ngeligance. Apparently, they never taught their daughter not to step in front of moving vehicles.


73 posted on 03/15/2005 2:26:55 PM PST by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Alouette
Hmmm...we're not selling enough good equipment to the combat heavies in the IDF. Caterpillar should start a new production line for fully modified vehicles and run some humor advertisements to go with them.


74 posted on 03/15/2005 2:27:14 PM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: mommadooo3

Yep!

{{{mommadooo3}}}

Howrya doin?


75 posted on 03/15/2005 2:27:28 PM PST by sauropod (Heaven for the climate and Hell for the company - Mark Twain)
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To: KosmicKitty; mhking
Ohh, guess we'll have pancakes tomorrow night for dinner.


"Make mine Scattered, Smothered, and Covered!!!"

[Shamelessly stolen from mhking.]

76 posted on 03/15/2005 2:27:50 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: TFFKAMM
Landfill
(To the tune of "Landslide," by Stevie Nicks; parody lyrics by Slings and Arrows)

I took my bullhorn, took it down
Helped terrorists in Gaza Town.
I saw my reflection on a bulldozer blade,
and the landfill's where I stay.

Oh, choppers in the sky,
What is dumb?
Can I play chicken with Israelis?
Can I face down heavy equipment?
Can I handle ten tons on my chest?

Well, I've been afraid of flattening,
'Cause a D-9 can hurt you.
But morons are bolder,
Flag-burning gets older,
And IHOP is calling too...

Oh, mail me home, flat rate's fine,
Fake some photos, moan and whine.
If you see my reflection in a bulldozer blade
Well the landfill's where I'll be...

If you see my reflection in a bulldozer blade
Well the landfill's where I'll be...

77 posted on 03/15/2005 2:30:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: conserv13
Still, it makes me sick how many FReepers celebrate and joke about her death.
She made a stupid decision and died pointlessly. She bears the responsibility. Life is harsh, isn't it?
78 posted on 03/15/2005 2:30:59 PM PST by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: APRPEH

Good e-mail about St. Flapjack.


79 posted on 03/15/2005 2:31:26 PM PST by sauropod (Heaven for the climate and Hell for the company - Mark Twain)
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To: TFFKAMM
They look so peaceful (irony, sarcasm).






80 posted on 03/15/2005 2:31:28 PM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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