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Photostory: Rachel Corrie remembered in Seattle
Edward Mast and Elliot Stoller, The Electronic Intifada, 17 March 2006
Seattle remembers Rachel Corrie. (Photo: Elliot Stoller)
March 16th, 2006 — In observation of the third anniversary of her death, Palestine Solidarity Committee/ISM-Seattle and the Theatersquad presented sidewalk readings of passages from Rachel Corrie’s writings in downtown Seattle at rush hour.
Many members of the community read passages, while others wore tears-of-blood masks and held up door and window frames from demolished homes, along with enlarged photos of Rachel Corrie facing Israeli bulldozers.
The event was part of the national Rachel’s Words campaign in protest of the cancellation of “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” at New York Theater Workshop.
Some of the performers in the event recently participated in Bread and Puppet Theater’s Seattle presentation of “Daughter Courage”, a different play about Rachel Corrie.
More Pictures:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4564.shtml
March 16th, 2006 — In observation of the third anniversary of her death, Palestine Solidarity Committee/ISM-Seattle and the Theatersquad presented sidewalk readings of passages from Rachel Corrie’s writings in downtown Seattle at rush hour.
Many members of the community read passages, while others wore tears-of-blood masks and held up door and window frames from demolished homes, along with enlarged photos of Rachel Corrie facing Israeli bulldozers.
The event was part of the national Rachel’s Words campaign in protest of the cancellation of “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” at New York Theater Workshop.
Some of the performers in the event recently participated in Bread and Puppet Theater’s Seattle presentation of “Daughter Courage”, a different play about Rachel Corrie.
More Pictures:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4564.shtml
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It would have been better for Rachel Corrie if, innstead of making memorials , if the ISM had taught safety, or at least yelled,"hey, get out of there.' The ISM acknowledges that Rachel Corrie is worth far more to the ISM dead, than sh was alive. Does the ISM called her "a useful idiot" when no one else is arround?
Justice for Rachel Corrie will be achieved when the International Solidarity Movement is rendered permanently incapable (through legal, nonviolent, and socially acceptable methods) of EVER placing an idealistic young college student, or anyone else for that matter, in a war zone to get them "shot or even killed [so] the international media will sit up and take notice" as desired by ISM leader George Rishmawi.
(1) The International Solidarity Movement and Hamas are on record as stating openly that they had a motive for wanting Rachel Corrie dead.
o http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85 "Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement, George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle that the recruitment of American student volunteers is useful to the Palestinian Movement because "if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.""
o Joseph Smith, who was present when Corrie died and whose highest priority was apparently to take pictures, said "The spirit that she died for is worth a life. This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for it all the time. So the life of one international, I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting oppression." (http://www.freepalestinecampaign.org/Stranger article.htm, a source friendly to the Palestine Solidarity Movement. If he really feels that way, incidentally, why didn't he kneel in front of the bulldozer? Why was it worth Rachel's life but not his own?)
o A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel was worth more dead than alive. "'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday. '...Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs.'" "Making of a Martyr" by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-22-2003-37821.asp.
(2) Several ISM activists testified vigorously about their eyewitness accounts of Rachel's death but not one of them, by their own accounts, lifted a finger to pull her out of the slowly-moving bulldozer's path.
o Per "Making of a Martyr" by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-22-2003-37821.asp, "Her British friend and fellow activist, Tom Dale, 18, from Lichfield in Staffordshire, said he saw her die. First, he said, there was fear on her face as she realised that her defiant gesture was going wrong. Joe Smith, 21, who went to college with Corrie, said that, although they acknowledged the danger, they saw death as a 'small, unlikely, potential risk'."
o "Dale watched as she knelt down in front of the bulldozer, perhaps 20 metres away, something the activists had done repeatedly that day as they had in the past. 'The bulldozer went towards her, very slowly, she was fully in clear view, straight in front of them.'"
o He testifies that the bulldozer was moving very slowly— plenty of time for him or another man to pull her out of its path when it became clear that (for whatever reason) it was not going to stop. Not one of the ISM activists even claims to have tried.
o "A traumatised Smith raised his camera and took photographs: Rachel standing in front of the bulldozer; then her bloodied body being pulled from the freshly turned soil; being cradled in the arms of her friends."
o Why was his first priority to raise his camera and take pictures instead of trying to get Rachel out of the bulldozer's path?
o "'If only they'd had a video camera,' one Palestinian journalist lamented. 'A film of the Israelis killing an American in cold blood would have ended the intifada.'"
o The Palestinian journalist's primary lament is that they didn't have a video camera— and not that someone didn't pull Rachel out of the bulldozer's path.
o ISM member Tom Dale's testimony, from the ISM's own Web site (http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2003/03/17/the-closest-eye-witness-account-on-the-murder-of-rachel-corrie/ highlighting and bracketed comments are mine) says that he was standing only 10 meters, only ten long paces, from Rachel when it happened but he does not even claim to have tried to get her out of the bulldozer's path when it became clear that something was going horribly wrong with her act of civil disobedience.
o "Many of you will [have] heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it went. …The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its scoop as it went." [If the bulldozer was demolishing houses, why bother to scoop up earth? Why not just drive through the houses?]
o Dale also testifies that Rachel died in the ambulance of massive brain hemorrhaging but http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/outrageous/rachelcorrie.asp says, "Palestinian doctors try to save the life of Rachel Corrie at the Najar hospital in the southern Gaza town of Rafah." Somebody somewhere is not getting their story straight.
(3) At least one of the ISM's pictures may be a photomanipulated fake
The ISM posted a picture of Rachel Corrie in a bright red jacket confronting a giant bulldozer with a man named "Nick" nearby in a white T shirt. There are some strange things about this photograph.
o The sun is obviously coming from behind the bulldozer, as shown by the shadow of its hydraulic piston on the back of the bulldozer blade. Rachel, however, casts a shadow to her left (the bulldozer's right) instead of behind her (the direction indicated by the shadow on the back of the bulldozer blade). The bulldozer casts no shadow at all to its right (Rachel's left), and neither does the man next to her.
o The man appears to have been cut and pasted into the picture; he has no feet and he is standing almost as if he is kicking a soccer ball— a very odd pose indeed.
o Furthermore, the Electronic Intifada reports, "Picture taken between 3:00-4:00PM, 16 March 2003, Rafah, Occupied Gaza. Rachel Corrie (L) and Nick (R) oppose the potential destruction of this home (to the west of the Doctor's home where Rachel was killed). The shadow to Rachel's left is shorter than her height, which is not consistent with late afternoon in mid-winter.
o The same picture shows, incidentally, that the huge bulldozer blade would have prevented the driver from seeing a person who was standing (let alone kneeling) directly in front of it. ISM's own photographic evidence— if accepted as genuine and not a photomanipulated fraud— therefore gives the lie to the Palestine Solidarity Movement's statement that the driver saw Rachel and ran over her anyway. If it is a photomanipulated fraud, then ISM/PSM is guilty of perjury in the court of public opinion and should be judged accordingly.
While the picture should be examined by an expert, we must conclude, on the basis of the evidence shown here:
THE ISM LIED AND RACHEL CORRIE DIED
(1) The International Solidarity Movement and Hamas are on record as stating openly that they had a motive for wanting Rachel Corrie dead.
o http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85 "Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement, George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle that the recruitment of American student volunteers is useful to the Palestinian Movement because "if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.""
o Joseph Smith, who was present when Corrie died and whose highest priority was apparently to take pictures, said "The spirit that she died for is worth a life. This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for it all the time. So the life of one international, I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting oppression." (http://www.freepalestinecampaign.org/Stranger article.htm, a source friendly to the Palestine Solidarity Movement. If he really feels that way, incidentally, why didn't he kneel in front of the bulldozer? Why was it worth Rachel's life but not his own?)
o A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel was worth more dead than alive. "'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday. '...Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs.'" "Making of a Martyr" by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-22-2003-37821.asp.
(2) Several ISM activists testified vigorously about their eyewitness accounts of Rachel's death but not one of them, by their own accounts, lifted a finger to pull her out of the slowly-moving bulldozer's path.
o Per "Making of a Martyr" by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-22-2003-37821.asp, "Her British friend and fellow activist, Tom Dale, 18, from Lichfield in Staffordshire, said he saw her die. First, he said, there was fear on her face as she realised that her defiant gesture was going wrong. Joe Smith, 21, who went to college with Corrie, said that, although they acknowledged the danger, they saw death as a 'small, unlikely, potential risk'."
o "Dale watched as she knelt down in front of the bulldozer, perhaps 20 metres away, something the activists had done repeatedly that day as they had in the past. 'The bulldozer went towards her, very slowly, she was fully in clear view, straight in front of them.'"
o He testifies that the bulldozer was moving very slowly— plenty of time for him or another man to pull her out of its path when it became clear that (for whatever reason) it was not going to stop. Not one of the ISM activists even claims to have tried.
o "A traumatised Smith raised his camera and took photographs: Rachel standing in front of the bulldozer; then her bloodied body being pulled from the freshly turned soil; being cradled in the arms of her friends."
o Why was his first priority to raise his camera and take pictures instead of trying to get Rachel out of the bulldozer's path?
o "'If only they'd had a video camera,' one Palestinian journalist lamented. 'A film of the Israelis killing an American in cold blood would have ended the intifada.'"
o The Palestinian journalist's primary lament is that they didn't have a video camera— and not that someone didn't pull Rachel out of the bulldozer's path.
o ISM member Tom Dale's testimony, from the ISM's own Web site (http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2003/03/17/the-closest-eye-witness-account-on-the-murder-of-rachel-corrie/ highlighting and bracketed comments are mine) says that he was standing only 10 meters, only ten long paces, from Rachel when it happened but he does not even claim to have tried to get her out of the bulldozer's path when it became clear that something was going horribly wrong with her act of civil disobedience.
o "Many of you will [have] heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it went. …The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its scoop as it went." [If the bulldozer was demolishing houses, why bother to scoop up earth? Why not just drive through the houses?]
o Dale also testifies that Rachel died in the ambulance of massive brain hemorrhaging but http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/outrageous/rachelcorrie.asp says, "Palestinian doctors try to save the life of Rachel Corrie at the Najar hospital in the southern Gaza town of Rafah." Somebody somewhere is not getting their story straight.
(3) At least one of the ISM's pictures may be a photomanipulated fake
The ISM posted a picture of Rachel Corrie in a bright red jacket confronting a giant bulldozer with a man named "Nick" nearby in a white T shirt. There are some strange things about this photograph.
o The sun is obviously coming from behind the bulldozer, as shown by the shadow of its hydraulic piston on the back of the bulldozer blade. Rachel, however, casts a shadow to her left (the bulldozer's right) instead of behind her (the direction indicated by the shadow on the back of the bulldozer blade). The bulldozer casts no shadow at all to its right (Rachel's left), and neither does the man next to her.
o The man appears to have been cut and pasted into the picture; he has no feet and he is standing almost as if he is kicking a soccer ball— a very odd pose indeed.
o Furthermore, the Electronic Intifada reports, "Picture taken between 3:00-4:00PM, 16 March 2003, Rafah, Occupied Gaza. Rachel Corrie (L) and Nick (R) oppose the potential destruction of this home (to the west of the Doctor's home where Rachel was killed). The shadow to Rachel's left is shorter than her height, which is not consistent with late afternoon in mid-winter.
o The same picture shows, incidentally, that the huge bulldozer blade would have prevented the driver from seeing a person who was standing (let alone kneeling) directly in front of it. ISM's own photographic evidence— if accepted as genuine and not a photomanipulated fraud— therefore gives the lie to the Palestine Solidarity Movement's statement that the driver saw Rachel and ran over her anyway. If it is a photomanipulated fraud, then ISM/PSM is guilty of perjury in the court of public opinion and should be judged accordingly.
While the picture should be examined by an expert, we must conclude, on the basis of the evidence shown here:
THE ISM LIED AND RACHEL CORRIE DIED
What happened to Rachel Corrie incriminates the ISM ALONE. Israel had nothing to do with it. You just want to use the incident to criticize Israel because you're an ANTI-SEMITE -- just like everybody who criticizes Israel
Rachel Corrie was a self-admitted anarchist. Anarchists are not peace activists. The title "peace activist" is used as a euphemism for "human shield" for terrorist according to the ISM's own training manuals.
Rachel Corrie died playing chicken with the tractor. She was not protecting a house but in a trench entrance to a weapons smuggling tunnel. She also served as a human shiled at the entrance to such tunnels claiming she was "shielding Palestinian municipal water workers" fromt he IDF digging "a well." The fact is, she was shielding PLO terrorists working on a weapons smuggling tunnel and even assisted in bringing out the dead bodies of terrorists killed by the IDF in some of those tunnels.
The photos of her in front of the tractor, supplied by a liar named Joseph Smith who is now known as Joseph Carr were doctored by Carr in photoshop. Carr said her death was well worth his "revolution."
Corrie's parents are disgusting. Instead of discouraging other young people from being pawns for the ISM they took money from the PLO and encouraged more of such activities. The Corries should be registered as foreign agents in the USA.
These are not good parents.
The ISM used Rachel Corrie and now they are suing her parents. The Evergreen College "anarchist" was making revolution by playing chicken with a tractor and died. The driver did not see her. It's time to put the truth out about this
unfortunate but very stupid young woman. The video of the time and place she was killed will be out soon on the website
http://www.stoptheISM.com.
These constant runs on Indymedia memorializing this young anarchist when many people were murdered in Israel by rockets and other weapons smuggled in those tunnels is outrageous and inexcusable.
Rachel Corrie died playing chicken with the tractor. She was not protecting a house but in a trench entrance to a weapons smuggling tunnel. She also served as a human shiled at the entrance to such tunnels claiming she was "shielding Palestinian municipal water workers" fromt he IDF digging "a well." The fact is, she was shielding PLO terrorists working on a weapons smuggling tunnel and even assisted in bringing out the dead bodies of terrorists killed by the IDF in some of those tunnels.
The photos of her in front of the tractor, supplied by a liar named Joseph Smith who is now known as Joseph Carr were doctored by Carr in photoshop. Carr said her death was well worth his "revolution."
Corrie's parents are disgusting. Instead of discouraging other young people from being pawns for the ISM they took money from the PLO and encouraged more of such activities. The Corries should be registered as foreign agents in the USA.
These are not good parents.
The ISM used Rachel Corrie and now they are suing her parents. The Evergreen College "anarchist" was making revolution by playing chicken with a tractor and died. The driver did not see her. It's time to put the truth out about this
unfortunate but very stupid young woman. The video of the time and place she was killed will be out soon on the website
http://www.stoptheISM.com.
These constant runs on Indymedia memorializing this young anarchist when many people were murdered in Israel by rockets and other weapons smuggled in those tunnels is outrageous and inexcusable.
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