With the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie" always popping up somewhere, this looks to be an excellent web site for the story on Corrie, the deluded young woman sacrificed by the International Solidarity Movement for the benefit of their propaganda: Rachel Corrie Facts. The site has pages with reviews of the play and background on the incident. Well worth bookmarking and passing on.
Unfortunately, facts don't count for much when it comes to opportunities to demonize Israel. The ISM member who took the pictures actually wrote on his own weblog that he couldn't believe what he was seeing as on every other occassion, the Israeli tank drives would stop before hitting the ISMers. His irrational conclusion was that if the driver failed to avoid her, Rachel's death had to have been deliberate.
Thus the world goes on believing what it choses to believe, just as surely with the al-Durrah fiction.
Some "Facts": Even in the cropped photo reproduced at the linked web site it is clear from the tracks that the dozer (or at least its blade) ran over Corrie and that she could not have been killed by "falling debris." Other photos and an uncropped view here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/03/17/15838231.php
There is no "brush" or "debris" to be cleared visible in the death photos.
The site you link continues to peddle the manipulative picture which purports to show that the driver just must have seen Corrie in his way. This has been discredited. To believe this, one would have to believe the driver saw her, turned sharply and intentionally toward her, and done so too quickly for her to scamper out of the way among other things. The dozer tracks in the other photos show a straight line. Whether she was killed by dirt and rocks or by the blade itself is rather an unfortunate distinction without a difference.
Rachel Corrie Facts is an excellent website. What a shame it is that Rachel Corrie threw her own life away helping terrorists who murder innocent people. And if one reads her writings, it is quite apparent that she loved violence. For example, she expressed pride in participating at a demonstration with the PFLP terrorist group. Why don't those who lionize her have even an iota of sympathy for another American woman who died at a young age? I refer to Dina Carter, a librarian who was among several Americans murdered by Hamas thugs who blew up the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria of Hebrew University. Unlike Ms. Corrie, Dina Carter did NOT go to a closed military zone to interfere with an anti-terrorism operation. Dina Carter's reason for being at the Hebrew University on the day of her death, was to register for a course to improve her skills as a librarian.
Please also visit the website of a growing organization for librarians...one which supports Israel: http://www.librariansforfairness.org
I've always wondered why in this photo Corrie seems to be almost in the grip of ecstatic hatred while the children around appear rather astonished and somewhat bemused:
The kindest way I can assess Rachel Corrie’s Palestinian mission is in comparing her to Pasha Antipov, the idealistic revolutionary from Dr. Zhivago, whose rage of exclusive pity overwhelms his moral values. The immense suffering he saw turned him from a naive idealist to a brutal, mass-killing revolutionary. He was a lost soul.
Corrie, likewise, aligned herself seamlessly with suffering Palestinians, reserving for them her absolute pity to the extent that suffering Israelis merited nothing but a sneering hatred from her. Corrie’s idealism did not proceed from love but from ideologically induced hatred. She was an open apologist for Palestinian terrorism, and she died trying to prevent the work of an Israeli bulldozer, which was searching for munitions buried in the ground. Contrary to Palestinian reports, the bulldozer was not there to demolish a house, (houses used as cover for weapon-smuggling tunnels were demolished by the IDF). Any which way you slice it, those munitions were there to be utilized in attacks against innocent civilians. Corrie died protecting terrorist weapons. She was completely indifferent to the deaths these weapons spelled at a time when suicide bombings were a matter of daily occurrence in Israel.
I agree with Noga's comments and would like to add that: Rachel Corrie was an anti-Semitic monster. After looking at her face, totally contorted in rage, in those two photos of her burning a hand-drawn U.S. flag, I believe she was capable of gleefully gunning down an Israeli two-year-old.
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Unfortunately, facts don't count for much when it comes to opportunities to demonize Israel. The ISM member who took the pictures actually wrote on his own weblog that he couldn't believe what he was seeing as on every other occassion, the Israeli tank drives would stop before hitting the ISMers. His irrational conclusion was that if the driver failed to avoid her, Rachel's death had to have been deliberate.
Thus the world goes on believing what it choses to believe, just as surely with the al-Durrah fiction.
Some "Facts": Even in the cropped photo reproduced at the linked web site it is clear from the tracks that the dozer (or at least its blade) ran over Corrie and that she could not have been killed by "falling debris." Other photos and an uncropped view here:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/03/17/15838231.php
There is no "brush" or "debris" to be cleared visible in the death photos.
The site you link continues to peddle the manipulative picture which purports to show that the driver just must have seen Corrie in his way. This has been discredited. To believe this, one would have to believe the driver saw her, turned sharply and intentionally toward her, and done so too quickly for her to scamper out of the way among other things. The dozer tracks in the other photos show a straight line. Whether she was killed by dirt and rocks or by the blade itself is rather an unfortunate distinction without a difference.
Rachel Corrie Facts is an excellent website. What a shame it is that Rachel Corrie threw her own life away helping terrorists who murder innocent people. And if one reads her writings, it is quite apparent that she loved violence. For example, she expressed pride in participating at a demonstration with the PFLP terrorist group. Why don't those who lionize her have even an iota of sympathy for another American woman who died at a young age? I refer to Dina Carter, a librarian who was among several Americans murdered by Hamas thugs who blew up the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria of Hebrew University. Unlike Ms. Corrie, Dina Carter did NOT go to a closed military zone to interfere with an anti-terrorism operation. Dina Carter's reason for being at the Hebrew University on the day of her death, was to register for a course to improve her skills as a librarian.
Please also visit the website of a growing organization for librarians...one which supports Israel:
http://www.librariansforfairness.org
I've always wondered why in this photo Corrie seems to be almost in the grip of ecstatic hatred while the children around appear rather astonished and somewhat bemused:
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The kindest way I can assess Rachel Corrie’s Palestinian mission is in comparing her to Pasha Antipov, the idealistic revolutionary from Dr. Zhivago, whose rage of exclusive pity overwhelms his moral values. The immense suffering he saw turned him from a naive idealist to a brutal, mass-killing revolutionary. He was a lost soul.
Corrie, likewise, aligned herself seamlessly with suffering Palestinians, reserving for them her absolute pity to the extent that suffering Israelis merited nothing but a sneering hatred from her. Corrie’s idealism did not proceed from love but from ideologically induced hatred. She was an open apologist for Palestinian terrorism, and she died trying to prevent the work of an Israeli bulldozer, which was searching for munitions buried in the ground. Contrary to Palestinian reports, the bulldozer was not there to demolish a house, (houses used as cover for weapon-smuggling tunnels were demolished by the IDF). Any which way you slice it, those munitions were there to be utilized in attacks against innocent civilians. Corrie died protecting terrorist weapons. She was completely indifferent to the deaths these weapons spelled at a time when suicide bombings were a matter of daily occurrence in Israel.
I agree with Noga's comments and would like to add that: Rachel Corrie was an anti-Semitic monster. After looking at her face, totally contorted in rage, in those two photos of her burning a hand-drawn U.S. flag, I believe she was capable of gleefully gunning down an Israeli two-year-old.