Question?? What was the name of the female activist klled by a bulldozer

[Guava Jelly]

a few years back
Trying to stop it from bulldozing a palestinians house ?

[Jeanette in FL]

1. Rachel Corey n/t

[Guava Jelly]

3. Thank you!

:)

[Rene]

2. Rachel Currie

[Guava Jelly]

4. And thank you also

I will check both spelling :)

[Guava Jelly]

5. Rachel Corrie

Editor's note: On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie died in a bulldozer accident in the Gaza town of Rafah.)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004796

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Here is her memorial site

http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

[buddhamama]

7. your questions has been answered

i'll make a comment. Rachel's death was a tragedy and it really brought out the ugly in people.

i lost a lot respect for certain DU'ers during the time her death was being discussed. :(

Hi, bud. :) :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

8. Hey buddhamama

I wanted to put her in my pic thread tomorrow
But I couldnt remember her name :)

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. These 2 Editorial for the Seatle-Post Intelligencer

Rachel Corrie fought for world she believed in

link to full article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/164858_rachel16.html

By MOLLY MCCLAIN
GUEST COLUMNIST

"Last year on the afternoon of March 16, an Israeli soldier -- intentionally, I believe -- ran over 23-year-old Rachel Corrie in the occupied territories of Palestine with an armored Caterpillar bulldozer. Rachel was trying to prevent the soldier from crashing that bulldozer into the house of a Palestinian family in Rafah. There was good reason to believe the soldier was going to demolish the house, as the Israeli army has destroyed more than 1,000 homes and misplaced nearly 15,000 people in that small town in the past two years.

There is a definite pattern to the home demolition. Occasionally in the news, we hear claims that all the homes in Rafah were hiding tunnels that allow weapons into Gaza from Egypt. This is questionable arithmetic as only four tunnels have been found -- only one of which had evidence of weapons transport. What you may not have heard about is the wall the army is building between Rafah and Egypt. In fact, it is all the homes, greenhouses, fields, mosques, schools and shops "in the way" of this wall that have been destroyed.

I have seen this wall, this security zone and the massive destruction. I spent two weeks in Rafah in December 2002 and returned for three months last summer.

Some people blamed Rachel, a student at Evergreen State College, for her own murder; they accused her of everything from being an impressionable, idealistic kid who had been brainwashed to a defender of terrorists.

It is hard to imagine what life is like for people in Palestine, and I cling to the hope that it is this lack of imagination that leads so many to believe that all Palestinians are terrorists or that Rachel was either brainless or evil. "

link to full article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/164858_rachel16.html
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Our Place in the World: Still no justice for Rachel Corrie

By WENDY SMITH

link to full article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/157721_ourplace23.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=51

"Rachel Corrie from Olympia was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Rafah refugee camp about a month before Hurndall was shot there. Like Hurndall, Corrie was a volunteer with the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement to End the Occupation of Palestine (ISM). Like Hurndall, she was killed by an identifiable Israeli soldier. As in Hurndall's case, the Israeli government initially released a report on Corrie's killing, stating that nobody connected with the Israeli military was culpable and that further investigation was not required.

So, why has Hurndall's killer been charged when nothing has happened to Corrie's killer?

According to the Hurndall family, the only reason the soldier who shot him has been charged is because of pressure applied by the family. Hurndall's father is an attorney. He went to Rafah shortly after the shooting and compiled an extensive dossier of eyewitness affidavits, forensics reports, photographs and other relevant information. This dossier was put before the British foreign secretary in a way that made it very difficult to ignore. Ultimately, the British government went to bat for Hurndall, an unarmed British civilian killed by an Israeli soldier under the impression that he could shoot with impunity.

Indeed, the soldier had good reason to believe this. More than 2,000 unarmed Palestinian civilians, many of them children, have been killed in the occupied territories since the current intifada began in September 2000. Only 10 Israeli soldiers have been indicted and none has been convicted. A culture of impunity permeates the Israeli military, which is well known for its non-investigations of itself. For this reason, the Hurndall family would like to see the investigation of his death extend all the way up the chain of command.

Corrie's parents are not lawyers. In addition, they were told by members of the Washington state congressional delegation and State Department officials that if they quietly played along, justice for their daughter would ultimately be achieved. So far, all that has emerged is a non-credible Israeli military report claiming that 1) Corrie was not run over by a bulldozer and 2) even if she had been, the driver could not have seen her. These statements are contradicted respectively by the autopsy report and multiple eyewitness reports."

link to full article:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/157721_ourplace23.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=51

[Lithos]

10. Locking per I/P guidelines

Not based on a recent news or op-ed article.

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