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U.S. "Human Shield" killed by Israeli Army!
23-year-old Rachel Corey is pictured in this photo. She was willfully killed by Israeli occupation forces... what will George Bush do? What will we say?
GAZA, March 16 (Reuters) - An Israeli military bulldozer killed an American woman protesting the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said.
The woman, identified as 23-year-old Rachel Corey, was lying on the ground in front of an army bulldozer when she was covered with large quantities of sand, Ali al-Shaar, a witness to the incident, told Reuters.
"The American girl was lying in front of the bulldozer when the bulldozer took sand and put it over her," Shaar told Reuters.
Corey was taken to the al-Najar hospital in the southern Gaza Strip where doctors said she died from severe skull and chest fractures.
The Israeli army said it was checking the report.
"The bulldozer put sand on her and kept crushing her," said Nicholas Dure, a fellow member of the International Solidarity Campaign to Protect the Palestinian People protest group.
Israeli forces regularly destroy buildings in Gaza's Rafah neighbourhood along the border with Egypt, which they say are used by Palestinian gunmen to fire on Israeli troops patrolling the border, or hide tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt.
A group of foreign volunteers have been operating in southern Gaza for months, trying to prevent the army from demolishing buildings, often by blocking bulldozers with their bodies.
The woman, identified as 23-year-old Rachel Corey, was lying on the ground in front of an army bulldozer when she was covered with large quantities of sand, Ali al-Shaar, a witness to the incident, told Reuters.
"The American girl was lying in front of the bulldozer when the bulldozer took sand and put it over her," Shaar told Reuters.
Corey was taken to the al-Najar hospital in the southern Gaza Strip where doctors said she died from severe skull and chest fractures.
The Israeli army said it was checking the report.
"The bulldozer put sand on her and kept crushing her," said Nicholas Dure, a fellow member of the International Solidarity Campaign to Protect the Palestinian People protest group.
Israeli forces regularly destroy buildings in Gaza's Rafah neighbourhood along the border with Egypt, which they say are used by Palestinian gunmen to fire on Israeli troops patrolling the border, or hide tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt.
A group of foreign volunteers have been operating in southern Gaza for months, trying to prevent the army from demolishing buildings, often by blocking bulldozers with their bodies.
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1. From the description, this was done on purpose (ran over her after she fell, then backed over her body).
2. Look at the timing - Blair says war by Wednesday. This is designed to clear out the ISM so Israel can ethinically cleanse with no one to witness.
3. I've been told that Monday is the start of a Jewish holiday (Purim?) that historically marks the preemptive killing of 80,000 people who had made threats against them.
4. The Bush-Blair-Sharon team is fully aware of what they are doing - this was no accident and we must anticipate what they are trying to maneuver us into.
5. The most important thing right now is media pressure to spread this story - press hard, call on the phone.
2. Look at the timing - Blair says war by Wednesday. This is designed to clear out the ISM so Israel can ethinically cleanse with no one to witness.
3. I've been told that Monday is the start of a Jewish holiday (Purim?) that historically marks the preemptive killing of 80,000 people who had made threats against them.
4. The Bush-Blair-Sharon team is fully aware of what they are doing - this was no accident and we must anticipate what they are trying to maneuver us into.
5. The most important thing right now is media pressure to spread this story - press hard, call on the phone.
I remember a few months ago, when 4 "heroic" Israeli soldiers, inside of a tank, armed only with a 90MM cannon and a 50 caliber machine gun, preemtively attacked and killed two young Palestinian boys, on their way to the market place. I think the youngest was 6. They were both brothers. Now this cowardly and criminal murder of Rachel Correy. What will Bush do? Nothing. My own opinion is that whenever any Israeli spokesperson or US politician who has an uncritical position on Israel appears at a public gathering, they should be shut down. These murderous scum have no right to "free speech".
It scary how the American Right always goes on and on about protecting Americans. "War is necessary to protect Americans", but Americans are really only defined as those who agree with Bush. It is often said that an American would rather 1000 foreigners die than see one American (soldier or civilian killed), but really the greed and moral bankrupcy goes deeper. Right wing Americans care about their political views and only use death to gain ground for their ideas. And what are these ideas, a weird mixture of Christianity (minus respect for human life) and greed? The government should not provide for the poor and only protect the wealthy?
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