Worlds apart

[Resistance]

They were both murdered by cold-blooded terrorists.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n20talecpy.html

They were two American daughters who went to the Middle East believing their presence could make a difference, and instead became young casualties of a conflict that is much too old.

Marla Bennett was 24 when, on July 31, 2002, a terrorist's bomb exploded in the cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she was working toward her master's degree in Judaic studies.

Rachel Corrie was 23 when, on March 16, she was run over by an Israeli bulldozer in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Rachel, who had gone as a pro-Palestinian peace activist, was trying to stop the bulldozer from demolishing a house.

Both were college students who liked political science and collected food for the needy. They were natives of the West Coast; Marla was from San Diego and Rachel grew up in Olympia, the capital of Washington. Both were raised in middle-class families by parents who loved them very much.

This could be a tale of these two families, the mothers and fathers who lost children in a place we call the Holy Land. A story of how the San Diego community will gather tomorrow night in commemoration of Marla's life, to mourn her passing a year ago and collect money for a fund in her name. And a story of how another community mourns Rachel's death, seeking justice from afar and creating memorials in her honor.

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[drdon326]

1. The Truth about Marla Bennett

http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0m5p0

July 31, 2002 - Marla Bennett, 24, of San Diego, California was one of nine people killed killed when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on the Hebrew University Mt. Scopus campus.

Shortly after 13:30, while about 100 people were eating lunch, a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on the Hebrew University Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem. The explosive device was apparently planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Nine people were killed and 85 were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Marla Bennett completed her B.A. in Political Science at Berkeley University in California in 2000. She was in the second year of a three-year master's program in Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University and Pardes Institute, had been at the university to take a final exam in her sole Hebrew University class of the semester, Hebrew language, when she was killed.

Marla knew that every day she stayed in Jerusalem, the simple choice of whether to turn left or right each morning could make the difference between life or death. "This question may seem inconsequential, but the events of the past few months in Israel have led me to believe that each small decision I make, by which route to walk to school, whether or not to go out to dinner, may have life-threatening consequences," Bennett wrote in a May 10 column in a newspaper in her hometown of San Diego. "My friends and family in San Diego are right when they call and ask me to come home, it is dangerous here," she wrote. "I appreciate their concern. But there is nowhere else in the world I would rather be right now. "I have a front-row seat for the history of the Jewish people. I am a part of the struggle for Israel's survival."

[Resistance]

3. murdered by terrorists

just like Rachel Corrie was. The only difference, of course, is that the United States funds one group of terrorists (the Israeli Army) and condemns the other group (Hamas).

[Jackie97]

2. Holy land my foot

There's nothing holy about it right now.