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A Tribute to Rachel Corrie -- Thanks for showing us what "peace" really means
by Ruhama Shattan
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 at 6:48 AM
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.
Rachel Corrie Memorial at Vigil Tonight
by K. O. Matsu
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 at 7:45 AM
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
by http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 at 10:08 AM
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http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
bullshit
by george k
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 at 10:18 AM
Corrie was another arrogant American trying to foist her way of thinking upon people.
Ah Contraire, Mon Frere
by Link Belt
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2004 at 3:21 PM
Sometime on March 16, 2004, Evan assaulted the Rachel Corrie postings at IMC and wrote:
"Can someone who has easier access than I to the editorial page please delete
at least one of the Corrie urinal pictures. I don't want to see this
develop into a pic post war, with all the pics taking a long time to
download. I don't have a problem with the comments as far as our ed. policy
goes, but we have two urinal pics posted already -- they are almost
identical. And the urinal has been posted before (at least once) in another
article. It's spam and it's against our policies (as is repeated posting of
the Zionazi "retort").
Thanks,
Evan"
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The two are nearly identical, but I beleive the latter posting is making a statement unique to itself, that Rachel is more appropriately placced lower in the urinal (most likely to avoid annoying backsplash). If the Rachel Corrie Urinal was posted in some other string at some other time it was abviouslya comment to that discussion, not this one. So it has independent relevance here.
Also, you are wrong, the repeated posting of the ZioNazi banner is not spam any more than the repeated posting of the "Fat-Naked-Guy-At-The-Computer-In-His-Mother's-Basement-As-The-Quintissential-Freeper" is spam (but you never seem to give a crap about that one). Granted, if someone posted teh Zionazi banner multiple times one after another, you might call it spam. But to say that it is inherently spam is just plain wrong headed editorializing.
I vote that you take down the first Rachel Corrie Memorial Urinal pisture above and leave the later posting.
"Rachel Corrie = Darwinism In Action"
the ISM killed Corrie
by hanging chad
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2004 at 8:02 AM
The ISM killed Corrie. This image is a fake. And other images from the ISM site, supposedly to illustrate a timeline, don't match. (Different dozers, different horizons, etc).
Corrie was betrayed by the terrorists she hoped to help.
Gone in 60 seconds?
by Hotwire
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2004 at 8:34 AM
So the ISM stole a bulldozer and a Israeli uniform, ran over Corrie, put the uniform back on the solider and sat him back in the bulldozer, then made fake pictures? They are sneaky ones
Sounds like a video game.
Do you think Elvis is alive, or maybe you are the contrail/ no plane hit the pentagon person?
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