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Rachel - Gaza's American MartyrGaza's American MartyrIslamOnline.net & Newspapers Rachel, 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza town of Rafah. CAIRO — Five years after she was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer, the diaries of peace activist Rachel Corrie will show how a young girl from Olympia, a small town an hour's drive from Seattle, died a Palestinian martyr, the Observer report on Sunday, March 2. "It takes a while to get what's happening here," Rachel wrote in one entry of her diary. "Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with." A collection of Rachel's writings, journals, email printouts, poems, letters and drawings will see the light next week. The final piece in the book, entitled Let Me Stand Alone, was written only four days before her death on March 16, 2003. Rachel, a 23-year-old college student and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. Six eyewitnesses had testified that Corrie, with her bright orange jacket, was clearly visible to the bulldozer drivers. They said the bulldozer lifted her up and drove over her repeatedly with its plow down. "In the first hour after Rachel was killed, I remember saying: we have to get her words out," her mother Cindy told the Observer. "Nobody was thinking of a book back then but, even early on, when we were in such searing pain, we were drawn to what Rachel had written as a comfort, as a connection." In 2005, Corrie's death became the inspiration for a play, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, also based on Rachel's writing. The play has been staged in so many places around the world. Palestinian Martyr Craig, Rachel's father, remembers an intimate phone call by late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat shortly after receiving the sad news of their youngest daughter's death. "He told me: 'She is your daughter but she is also the daughter of all Palestinians. She is ours too now,'" he told the Observer. In the Gaza Strip, families dedicated graffiti to the young American woman. "'Rachel was a US citizen with Palestinian blood,'" Craig recalled the words of the graffiti. "She had become a victim of their intifada, a heroine who had stood up to the mighty Israeli army. New mothers christened their daughters Rachel. A kindergarten was named after her." Rachel spent the last days of her short life with the Palestinians. "I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive," she said in a television interview shortly before her death. "It's horrifying." In one of her diary entries she describes the shock of moving the body of a Palestinian child killed by Israeli bullets. Five years after Rachel's death, the same picture remains unchanged. Scores of Palestinian kids, some as young as five-month, have been killed in an ongoing Israeli ground and air blitz in the besieged Gaza Strip. "This has to stop!" Rachel wrote in a letter sent to her mother from Rafah shortly before her tragic death. "I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop." http://www.islamonline.net/servle...ename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout (3 March 0 
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The Other Rachels
A few days ago we commented on the trend among the Moonbatocracy to create pseudo-art celebrating Rachel Corrie, the clueless campus radical who commmitted suicide while trying to prevent Israeli bulldozers from destroying a smuggling tunnel used by the Palestinians in Gaza to smuggle in explosives, weapons, and missiles. Well, last night, the play "My Name is Rachel Corrie" premiered in London at the prestigious Royal Court Theatre. No mention in the play of Corrie burning US flags or defending suicide bombing. Well, we thought we would mention some other Rachels who have NOT been similarly commemorated in the London posh theaters yet (with thanks to Tom Gross). Here are the names of some plays that have not yet been produced in London: 1. My Name is Rachel Levy (Israeli girl age 17, blown up in a grocery store) 2. My Name is Rachel Thaler (Israeli girl aged 16, blown up in a pizzeria) 3. My Name is Rachel Levi (Israeli girl aged 19, murdered while waiting for the bus) 4. My Name is Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband and son while at home) 5. My Name is Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting in a cafe) 6. My Name is Rachel Shabo (murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 6 while sitting at home) It would be interesting knowing how many of THESE Rachels were murdered with explosives smuggled in through the same tunnels that Rachel Corrie and her ISM pro-terrorist friends were "defending"! SOURCE |
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Shortly after her death, columnist Dennis Prager wrote to Corrie's native Washingtonian parents: "So, Olympia, grieve for Rachel Corrie's parents, but spare us the hagiography. Rachel Corrie died fighting for . . . 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.
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