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March 16, 2005
Rachel Corrie Round-up
As we continue the ever-popular search for the ever popular Moonbat of the Year™, I thought I would take a look at the winner for 2003, today, on the anniversary of her death.
Yes, on March 16, 2003, in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza, Rachel Corrie, 23, an "international peace protester," dropped to her knees in front of an Israeli bulldozer during an IDF anti-terrorism action. She was... shall we say... squished, flat, and therefore shall forever be known as St. Pancake.
Her fellow protesters moonbats called it murder, even though they repeatedly defied warnings to leave the area, and the investigation determined that the driver of the bulldozer could not see Rachel Corrie. According to the inquiry, "the windows of the bulletproof bulldozer are very small and the visibility is very limited, and the bulldozer operator did not see the woman."
The group to which Rachel Corrie belonged, the International Solidarity Movement, published "before" and "after" pictures claiming to show that the bulldozer operator could in fact see her.
According to the International Solidarity Movement, this picture was taken immediately before the squishing:
And, according to the International Solidarity Movement, this picture was taken immediately after the squishing:
The pictures raise many questions, don't you think? Questions such as "which of these things are not like the other?"
An examination of those two pictures provides the answer: note that the background of the pictures are completely different, note the color of the sky, they could not have been taken close to the same point in time. And, note the difference in the two bulldozers shown in these supposed "before" and "after" pictures, they are not the same.
Indeed both CNN, which ran the two pictures, and the New York Times, which ran the first one, published the following corrections:
CNN, March 25, 2003:
Caption clarification: Photos by an International Solidarity Movement eyewitness show Rachel Corrie protesting earlier, and then later, after she was hit by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday.
The New York Times, March 26, 2003:
A picture caption on March 17 with an article about an American protester who was crushed by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza referred incorrectly to the bulldozer shown. It was one that the protester, Rachel Corrie, had earlier tried to stop from destroying a Palestinian home. It was not the one that killed her.
The photographer himself later admitted that no one with a camera had been present at the site just before Rachel's accident, that the picture with the megaphone had actually been taken hours earlier, and that at the time of the accident Rachel was not in sight of the driver.
Nevertheless the murder charge has persisted and worshipers of St. Pancake, as well as pro-Palestinian web sites, including the International Solidarity Movement's own web site, continue to present the two pictures with incorrect and misleading labels.
Another photo in the photographer's own report, posted on pro-Palestinian web sites, shows Rachel's true proportion in relation to the enormous size of the bulldozer, making it clear how the driver could easily have missed seeing her.
Who are these "international peace protesters" to whom Rachel Corrie belonged?
The group calls itself the International Solidarity Movement. They are a group of European and American activists founded and led by Palestinians. Their agenda is not peace but the Palestinian cause.
They are enablers of terrorism and therefore, terrorists themselves.
Because they know that Israel, unlike the Palestinian terrorists, cares about civilian casualties, they present themselves as "human shields," entering combat zones against orders and hindering Israeli efforts to restrain terrorism. In May of 2003, members of the group entered the Church of the Nativity, where known Palestinian terrorists were taking a stand against Israeli forces.
They describe themselves as a "peace army." They claim to use only nonviolent tactics. But how nonviolent can one claim to be if one's actions help those who do resort to violence to continue doing their work?
They say they are trying to stop Israel from destroying Palestinian homes. They do not mention that these are buildings that Palestinian gunmen use as cover, or that these buildings hide tunnels used for arms smuggling. They do not mention that Gaza is the center of operations for Hamas, where terrorists are trained, where attacks are launched, and where terrorists hide. They do not mention that Israeli troops entered Gaza after a series of increasingly bloody attacks on civilians planned and executed by Hamas.
Rachel Corrie, an American college student from Olympia, Washington, was a pro-Palestinian activist and member of the International Solidarity Movement. She worked with Palestinian children in Gaza. She felt for their poverty and their suffering. She also helped teach them how to hate America and how to hate Israel. On February 15, 2003, at a rally in Rafah, surrounded by Palestinian children, Rachel Corrie burned an American flag, her face torn with hatred.
I would like to ask these "peace" activists some questions:
If you care so much for children, why do you try to prevent Israel from stopping the activity of terrorists who intentionally murder children as well as other innocent civilians?
Why do you care more about Palestinian property than about Jewish lives?
If you truly stand for peace, will you have the honesty and the courage not only to resist Israeli troops, who obey the laws of civilization, but to ride an Israeli bus and take your chances with those who do not?
Or does "peace" mean trying your best to make sure that terrorists can operate freely?
Perhaps the world at large can also try to answer these questions.
The International Solidarity Movement has this quotation on its web site: "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." (Albert Einstein).
And perhaps also because of the people who don't do evil but who make it easier for others to do it.
Or is there really any difference?
(note: most of the foregoing was put together from various places on the internet, it has been on my 'puter for a long time. I no longer know who wrote it or where I found it. I would like to give credit to the author(s), but I do not know who they are).
Posted by LindaSoG at March 16, 2005 07:12 AM
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MMmmmmm...Pancakes.
Posted by: LC TripleNeckSteel at March 20, 2005 02:04 AM