Internationals Honor Rachel Corrie and IOF Victims

[DuctapeFatwa]

On the one-year anniversary of the killing of 23-year old American ISM activist Rachel Corrie, twenty international activists from ISM and CPT remembered their friend by performing a ’die-in’ at the Erez checkpoint to protest the atrocities of the Israeli Occupation.

The activists carried signs and wore T-shirts representing the many casualities of the Israeli Occupation. Representations of the power of Israel, the United States, and the Occupation symbolically ’killed’ all the other participants. The victims included peace and justice, nonviolence, Palestinian homes, educational rights, water rights, farming, and innocent civilians among others.

Rachel Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer while preventing an illegal home demolition in Rafah. Her life and spirit continue to inspire individuals to speak out against the injustices of the Israeli Occupation.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00241.htm

[Resistance]

1. The ISM so completely rocks

these people are true heroes.

Bless them all!

[Resistance]

2. Four eyewitnesses describe the murder of Rachel Corrie

Electronic Intifada

Tom Dale, Greg Schnabel, Richard Purssell, and Joe Smith
International Solidarity Movement
19 March 2003

JOE SMITH EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

United States citizen from Kansas City, MO, USA, born 25 April 1981.

I have never experienced anything like this in my life. I've never had someone close to me die before, let alone be brutally murdered right in front of my eyes. I don't even know how to react. I went through stages of dumbfounded shock and serious crying fits. I had no chance to be alone at all, I was either surrounded by Palestinians or on the phone with media. I chose the latter. I was doing interviews non-stop starting 30 min. after her death, all the way until midnight, and then starting again at 6am and continuing all day today. I literally would never hang up the phone, just switch to an incoming call on call waiting. When I did finnally get a second to breath, I'd have like 30 missed calls.

We thought this might happen eventually. We often spoke in the abstract that eventually one of us would get killed, but we always figured they'd shoot us, or it'd be an "accident", like in a house that is missiled or a stray bullet gets an unlucky activist. I never dreamed it'd be like this, the intentional crushing of a human being.

[BowlingForPalestine]

3. Peace activists murdered or injured.

What else is new?

[Resistance]

5. well

there is the ongoing theft of Palestinian land, for one

[redqueen]

4. "an illegal home demolition in Rafah"

Why is this allowed? Ignored?

I understand that Israelis have every right to demand justice for a terrorist who kills an innocent civilian.

However, what about state-sponsored terrorist tactics?

IS there any evidence, any at ALL, for these 'tunnels' they were supposed to be destroying?

If not, why is this not a huge story, all over the world?