Israeli assassination squad kills 10-year old girl in Bethlehem

by Simpson Eh? Wed Mar 26, 2003 14:36

Rachel Corrie's Mother Speaks Out. March 16, 2003. 23-year-old year old Rachel Corrie, a Palestinian rights activist working with the International Solidarity Movement, stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer in the city of Rafah in Gaza. For three hours, there had been a standoff, as Rachel and others blocked the bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home. Activists at the scene say that the driver of the bulldozer knew that Rachel was in front of him--and deliberately drove toward her.

Initially, he covered her in sand and other heavy debris. Then the bulldozer pushed Rachel to the ground and drove over her - then went into reverse to drive over her again. Rachel’s arms, legs and skull were fractured. She died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. As if to underline Israel’s contempt for Palestinians and anyone who supports them, a few days later, soldiers threw stun grenades and tear gas canisters at a group of Palestinian and international activists gathered for a memorial service at the spot where Rachel was crushed.

Rachel's mother:

It's hard for me to be fair to Rachel’s ideals. She taught me so much. She searched very deeply for answers to questions to learn all the different elements of this issue, and she tried to teach me. She was passionate about many things--about peace and freedom--but she was so gentle at the same time. One of her goals was to bring attention to the reality of the lives of the people in Gaza. She told me that this was one of the best things she did in her life. She loved the people, and their generosity towards her, although they had so little. She talked of the way people took her into their homes, into their families, and she spoke of their dignity, despite their suffering.

Her death reflects the mindlessness of the whole situation. She believed that the occupation of Palestinian lands was indefensible. But Rachel also had a love for all of humanity. The actions of the Israeli Defense Forces are so horrifying, but I still believe that there are many Israelis and American Jews who oppose what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. So many people in the U.S., many of them Jewish, have shown so much support and sympathy towards us in the last few days.

Rachel’s message was one of peace. I’ve tried really hard to keep my focus on the Occupied Territories. But I have to think about the inconsistencies in our supporting UN resolutions calling for Iraq to disarm, while completely ignoring and abandoning all UN resolutions that have called for Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. Rachel was opposed to this war on Iraq. She was frightened about what would happen there if the U.S. goes to war. Now that war is underway, and I pray for the people in Iraq and fear for the suffering they will go through.

by Avi H. Wed Mar 26, 2003 15:42

No Comment

by Avi H. Wed Mar 26, 2003 15:45

Combat is combat. These things happen, unfortunately. Those who have never been in combat wouldn't understand.

by yeah right Wed Mar 26, 2003 15:48

>Combat is combat. These things happen, >unfortunately. Those who have never been in combat
> wouldn't understand.

Can you please explain for me how -

1. A bulldozer crushing a protestor is combat?
2. An attack on people at a memorial service is combat?

by Avi H. Wed Mar 26, 2003 15:56

To all you Mr. Angry's out there:

Go and Contemplate a Tree.

by Simpson Eh? Wed Mar 26, 2003 16:12

For fuck's sake Avi "Combat is combat. These things happen, unfortunately"?
Isn't that similar to the line Hamas activists take about detonating themselves in buses in Israel?
The loss of civillian life is both unnecessary and horrific on either side of a conflict.

by kokomero Wed Mar 26, 2003 16:21

It is obvious that you always speak before you think Avi.

Go and contemplate being deliberately buried alive and then crushed to death by a bulldozer for nothing more than passive resistance and having an opinion.

Then imagine what your ancestors butchered in the holocaust would think of this savagery and naive attempts such as yours to excuse this genocidal behaviour.

Or maybe with your perverted mind you enjoy and get off on Nazi butchery?

On the subject of flag burning, burn them, burn them all if it leads to zealot nationalism such as yours!

by kokomero Wed Mar 26, 2003 16:29

Take your fake and shove it Avi!

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=300563&group=webcast

by Sean Wed Mar 26, 2003 17:30

kokomero the link isn´t working.

by gubu Wed Mar 26, 2003 17:48

How slow do you have to be not to be able to outrun a bulldozer. Some advice for activists - join a gym and get fit before taking on a lumbering bulldozer in a foot race.

by COC Wed Mar 26, 2003 18:24

Hitler gassing the Jews in WW2 was just combat.Pity he didn't get you and all.

by hunter Wed Mar 26, 2003 19:36

no need for that now... i understand dealing with avi can be frustrating. but lets not give him ammuntion. unless avi actually posted under the name coc so he could come back later and give out about 'anti-semities' on indymedia.

as i said b4 fact is that avi is basically a jewish fascist. reasoned argument doesnt work, neither does abuse. so what is the solution, well i'm taking a new approach, and doing what people should have done with hitler. namely ignoring him.

by Des Wed Mar 26, 2003 21:31

Avi, your “logic” never ceases to amaze me. Maybe the lines of Jewish people queuing up to be gassed at Auschwitz or Treblinka were victims of “combat” between the SS and the Jewish people? Maybe they were just “accidentally” gassed. Maybe the ten-year-old Palestinian child was Saddam Hussein in disguise or perhaps a WMD, Maybe the Iraqi people who were murdered in Baghdad today by your friends in Washington and London committed suicide? As an apologist for Zionist crimes, you are doing a very bad job. The millions of Jewish people who were murdered by the German Fascists should NEVER have their memory besmirched by being used to excuse the crimes of Sharon and his predecessors.
BTW COCO, we DON’T need to descend to Avi’s level to make our points.

by too true Wed Mar 26, 2003 23:39

Why that ultra-Zionist dork bothers to post here ... why doesn't he f**k off and post his garbage on israeli indymedia ....
Maybe he is paid by Mossad to monitor the Irish scene ..... ?