In Memoriam: Message from Craig and Cindy Corrie

http://www.rachelcorrie.org/march16.htm

Thank you to all who have paused today to remember our daughter Rachel Corrie and to call for an end to the occupation-an occupation which took her life, as surely as it has taken the lives of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis.

Rachel looked for purpose and found that in Gaza when she went there in January 2003. Brutally killed one year ago today, she was an unarmed, nonviolent, peace activist trying to prevent the demolition of the home of a Palestinian pharmacist, his wife, and three children. She 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 and by speeding an end to this conflict that has so damaged both U.S. and Israeli images in the world. Rachel stood there that day because the United States government and Israel rejected a proposal in the UN to send international human rights monitors to the region. She and other activists went in their place, and they continue to go. Rachel stood there that day protesting illegal home demolitions that the U.S. opposes on the record, yet fails to stop-devastating demolitions that we, in fact, contribute to with billions of U.S. tax dollars annually that fund the Israeli military with its bulldozers, apache helicopters, F-16s, and more. In fact, the U.S. Government, with our tax dollars, surely purchased the Caterpillar D9R bulldozer that killed Rachel.

Rachel's case is closed in Israel and only the "Conclusions" to the military police report have been given to the U.S. We have been able to view the report at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. It contains inconsistencies and fails to satisfactorily reconcile the differences between the Israeli soldiers who say they did not see Rachel and the seven international eyewitnesses who say she was clearly visible. We believe that only an independent U.S. investigation can produce a result that we can trust. We continue to call for support and passage of House Concurrent Resolution 111 (HCR111) that calls for such an investigation and now has fifty-six co-sponsors.

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I hope her soul and her family can find peace...as well as justice.

I think it's outrageous that our government hasn't yet implemented any kind of investigation into the deliberate murder of an American citizen by an "ally."

You take one incident, which may or not be an accident, and twist it into a murder by an entire nation. Good job!

a murder by an entire nation!" I agree, I probably shouldn't have used the wording I did because I certainly didn't mean to imply that the entire nation of Israel was at fault. That is absolutely NOT the case!

There are many thousands of Israelis who also don't believe it was an accident, who don't believe the results of their government's "official" investigation, and who believe there should be a far more in-depth investigation by both our government and theirs.

And isn't that what many people do when they refer to all Palestinians as "terrorists", even women and children in camps? When they take one suicide bomber and lump all Palestinians in with him or her?

And to express anger, horror, and shock at Rachel Corrie's murder, or the death of Palestinian victims, and sympathy for her and their families, does NOT in ANY way diminish my anger, horror, shock and sympathy for Israeli victims of terrorism. I shouldn't even have to say that, but I'm afraid I do.

"There are many thousands of Israelis who also don't believe it was an accident,"

Do you have any proof of this at all and if so why don't you post it.

Rather I think it is just another statement thrown against the wall in hopes that it sticks or goes unchallenged.

There are plenty of pacifist/refusenik organizations that give credence for that estimate (as a bare minimum) too. You can say they're wrong, but you can't say they don't exist.

alongside Israeli left-wingers and communists who absolutely don't believe it was an accident. Can't speak for thousands but I doubt its an unreasonable estimate of the support those groups enjoy in Israel.

V

Remembering Abigail

http://www.batesline.com/archives/000466.html




Not even to mention other american victims

http://avpv.tripod.com/

Any chance you can back up your "murder" charge?

And thus unique in this instance for this one particular subject.

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Lithos
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Fair enough. :)

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