Rachel Corrie (23, Evergreen University Olympia/Washington, "Internationale Solidaritätsbewegung") artikuliert auf einer "Peace Rally" in Rafah (Gaza-Strip) am 15. Februar 2003 durch das Verbrennen einer USA-Fahne ihre Ablehnung sämtlicher Nationalflaggen
(Foto: Associated Press / Khalil Hamra).
A 'tribute' to Rachel Corrie
By RUHAMA SHATTAN
March 16 is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending.
Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom - oops, death - have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women, and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and her friend in the February 22, 2004 bombing), and leaving hundreds more widows, orphans, and bereaved parents.
On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing Palestinian children how to despise America as she snarled, burned an American flag, and led them in chanting slogans, and as she gave "evidence" at a Young Palestinian Parliament mock trial finding President Bush guilty of crimes against humanity.
Perhaps her help in fanning the flames of violent anti-American sentiment led to the October 2003 bombing of the Fulbright delegation to Gaza to interview scholarship candidates, killing three. There will be no new crop of Palestinian Fulbright scholars this fall.
ON THE first anniversary of her death, I wanted to thank Rachel Corrie for providing her organization, the Palestinian-sponsored International Solidarity Movement, with the opportunity to release a manipulated photo sequence "showing" an Israeli military bulldozer deliberately crushing her. (I would also like to thank AP and The Christian Science Monitor for taking up the baton and immortalizing this cynical ISM stunt.)
On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing the way to all those who seek peace in the Middle East. Unfortunately, Corrie's peace, as anyone familiar with the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, and Hizbullah organizations that she defended with her life knows - or as anyone familiar with the weekly rants of the Friday preachers in the Palestinian mosques is aware - means not peaceful coexistence but the elimination of the State of Israel, and death to those they call "the usurping Jews, the sons of apes and pigs."
Thank you, Rachel Corrie, of Evergreen State University, where the profs wear khakis and keffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing us what peace really means.
The writer is a translator, editor, and writer who has lived in Israel since 1976.
Das Foto links zeigt Rachel Corrie auf einer Aufnahme, die anläßlich ihres Todes von Associated Press (und anderen "Friedens"-AktivistInnen) verbreitet wurde. Das Bild rechts ist einer
Montage auf Aarons Rantblog (Hijab/Kopftuch sind selbstverständlich "echt"/"authentisch") entnommen. Mehr zum Thema bei The Land Of Israel und LGF (via Google GmbH / Hamburg :-).
BTW: Frau Corrie ist posthume Trägerin des Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of 2003 und konnte "Friedens"-FreundInnen wie
Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Chirac, Indymedia, Greta Duisenberg, usw.
bei den Ausscheidungen schlagen.
Update 2004-03-05:
Charles Johnson weist auf Little Green Footballs auf einen International Herald Tribune Artikel von Elizabeth Corrie hin, der sich bemüht, neue Rekorde betreffend die Anzahl der Lügen pro jeweiligen Satz aufzustellen. Sicherlich wird alles in Kürze auf den deutschen Muslim-Märkten und ihren assoziierten Medien in Hannover, Duisburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Kassel etc. in germanischer Sprache nachzulesen sein. Hier also als Kostprobe schon einmal ein einziger (!) Satz:
On March 16, 2003, an Israeli soldier and his commander ran over Rachel with a nine-ton Caterpillar bulldozer while she stood - unarmed, clearly visible in her orange fluorescent jacket - protecting a Palestinian home slated for demolition by the Israeli army.