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QUESTION:The one-year anniversary of Rachel Corrie's demise has arrived.
For those whose memories fail them in this matter, let me refresh
things. Rachel Corrie was a young fanatic college student from
Washington State, who decided she could make the world a better place
by showing her solidarity with Middle East terrorism and Palestinian
mass murderers. She joined the International Solidarity Movement, a
communist-anarchist group who openly support Palestinian terrorism.
Corrie set up shop in the Gaza Strip, where she and her ISM comrades
spent their days trying to harass and provoke Israeli troops and
interfere with Israel's anti-terrorist military operations. They
would set up obstacles on roads to prevent Israeli troops and vehicles
using them and otherwise assist and defend the terrorists.
In one such confrontation, Corrie was trying to block an Israeli army
bulldozer that was knocking down homes of terrorists and buildings
hiding tunnels through which weapons and explosives were being
smuggled into the Gaza city of Rafiah from Egypt to Palestinian mass
murderers. Corrie and her ISM comrades wanted to help protect the
Gaza tunnels, and to protect the "right" of Palestinians to continue
to mass murder Israeli civilians. In the confrontation, Corrie put
herself in a position where the bulldozer driver could not see her,
and she was dragged under the heavy machine. She died in a PLO
ambulance or hospital shortly thereafter. The ISM then issued a host
of "eyewitness" reports about the accident, claiming it was in fact
cold-blooded murder, which turned out to be fabrications. The simple
fact of the matter was that Corrie had figured the Israeli bulldozer
driver could be cowed into backing off if he saw her blocking his
access to the terrorist house, and she probably even figured the
operator correctly, except he did not see her from his
limited-visibility window on the rig.
Ever since her stupidity led to her death, Rachel Corrie has become
the matron martyr saint for the pro-terrorism Left around the world,
the Jean D'Arc of Palestinian terrorism. Her ISM friends declared she
was "murdered" intentionally by Israel. Her death has been exploited
by the Bash-Israel movement and by anti-Semites all over the world, as
a means to delegitimize Israel. The PLO adopted her as mascot,
declaring that she died "fighting Israel's security fence", and never
mind that the building of the security fence was begun only well after
she was dead.
After Corries demise, other ISM pro-terrorists were also injured when
they put themselves in the middle of firefights, triggered by PLO
assault teams. Like Corrie, they were injured and one died trying to
protect those terrorists from Israelis shooting back. In another
fatal incident involving an ISM member (Tom Hurndall), the ISM led a
world-wide campaign to demonize the soldier who shot the pro-terrorist
interfering with a military operation. The soldier was an Israel Arab
Bedouin patriot serving in the Israeli military.
Corrie's own parents have gone on their own revenge-jihad against
Israel, touring the world to fan the demonization of Israel, and
representing daughter Rachel as a "victim of Israel's illegal
occupation."
They and other ISM supporters have been organizing a boycott of the
Caterpiller Corporation because it sells machines to Israel, including
the one with which Corrie chose to play "chicken" a year ago. All this
reminds me of those people who sue McDonald's because they are obese.
In their anniversary statement, Rachel Corrie's parents declared that
Rachel "believed that the nonviolent activism that she was doing and
supporting would make not only Palestinians but also Israelis and
Americans more secure-- by supporting Palestinians who practice
nonviolent rather than armed resistance."
But Rachel and her ISM friends believed in nothing of the sort and
were doing nothing of the sort. The ISM should probably stand for "I
Support Murderers." The official ISM web site endorses "armed
struggle" by Palestinians, which means random mass murders of Israeli
children and other living things.
Corrie died as a result of her own obtuseness. She was in Gaza to
help promote Palestinian terrorism and to prevent Israel from
protecting its own citizens. She died protecting the illegal tunnels
into Gaza from Egypt, through which the suicide bombers obtained their
materials. The most lasting images of Corrie was of her face
contorted with rage as she burned an American flag. When Reuters
reported that Palestinians "honored" her after her death in a
"symbolic funeral" by flying US flags, James Taranto from the Wall
Street Journal remarked that if Corrie were still alive, no doubt
she'd have burned the flags. Even the Far-Leftist Mother Jones
magazine considered her a dangerous and deluded little twit . The
Israeli army investigated the death and concluded that Corrie had
effectively committed suicide. Taranto also suggested that Corrie be
awarded the "Idiotarian of the Year Award". A Darwin Award is in
order.
The ISM is not simply an innocent, if evil, fringe debating society.
Within Israeli territories, its members have actively collaborated
with terrorists. They hid weapons and wanted terrorists in their
offices. The local ISM offices hosted two Moslem suicide bombers from
the UK, who had entered Israel as "peace activists", and who then blew
a Tel Aviv bar to smithereens the next day. The ISM is so closely
coordinated with the PLO that it is for all intents and purposes a PLO
front group. More recently, ISM trouble makers have been trying to
sabotage Israel's security fence, lest the fence prevent some
Palestinian mass murderers from conducting atrocities and blowing up
Israeli children and other civilians.
Yet despite the open endorsement of terror by ISM, it continues to
enjoy US tax-exempt status as a "charity" and continues to enjoy gifts
of megabucks from the usual culprits who fund the hate-America left.
The liberal press continues to coo over the ISM as if it were a "peace
group".
The Israeli government has been too pusillanimous and cowed by its
fear of bad press to send the ISM pro-terrorists a-packing. While the
ISM demonizes Israel, the very fact that it has been allowed to
continue to operate its provocations within Israeli-controlled
territory attests to how liberal and tolerant Israel has been. It is
no coincidence that the same ISM people protecting homes of suicide
bombers in the Gaza Strip and West Bank would never dare place
themselves in jeopardy by blocking, say, US troops arresting Saddam
Hussein in his Tikrit rat-hole or by protecting al-Qaeda or Taliban
facilities in Afghanistan, or the terrorist headquarters in Fallujah,
Iraq. The Corrie parents are not urging other deluded young
undergraduates to rush to Fallujah to defend the homes of Iraqi
terrorists under siege by American GIs to protest American
"occupation" of Iraq. The ISM designer-jean "revolutionaries" and
mall-Marxists would be mowed down mercilessly if they tried
interfering with anti-terrorism operations anywhere in the world but
in Israel.
In the past year Corrie and the other ISM supporters of terror who got
themselves injured fighting for Palestinian terror were beatified
constantly by the Western media. The Europeans and the American
liberal newspapers continue to commemorate Rachel Corrie through
attacking Israel every time it tries to deter terror by knocking down
the home of a suicide bomber or by tearing down houses protecting
smuggling tunnels or Gaza rocket production workshops. (Over 200
Palestinian rockets were fired into Israeli civilian areas from the
Gaza Strip last year alone.)
Shortly after Rachel Corries death, columnist Dennis Prager wrote:
"So, Olympia, grieve for Rachel Corrie's parents, but spare us the
hagiography. Rachel Corrie died fighting for the International
Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian group dedicated, in its own words,
to armed struggle against Israel. She ended up being a useful idiot
for, and one more victim of, Palestinian terror." Nothing could sum
things up better.
ANSWER: Let the memory of poor little Rachel's sad ending serve as an
inspiration to us all. Do not stand in front of bulldozers, tanks,
trains, buses, or other large vehicles unless they are securely parked
with the engine off, transmission in gear, and parking brake set.
Rest in pieces, Rachel. We will never forget you. Standing in front
fo a bulldozer was a tough act to follow.
That was a moving piece of writing, ArkLyte. Thank you. Hope to hear
from you on the topic of heavy-equipment safety next year, and the
year after, and the year after that... Until we finally learn that
bulldozers are not suitable toys for greenies, weenies, hippies,
commies, peaceniks, Pallies, Euro-peons, or other fringe lunatics.
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