JIDAAWY Posted March 18, 2003 Watching American TV can be a surreal experience. Sandwiched between ads for instant weight loss products, and ba$tards like Bill O’riely from Fox news who bay like rabid dogs for war against Iraq, and subject nations daring to oppose President Bush's evangelical march towards Bagdad, thats probably why I quit watching US cable news channels long time ago. Now tell me my beloved nomad.. have you ever heard about this story in their news ?? never has the bias, backstabbing, and prejeduice American media been more pathetically on display like it is now.. please read this report about this young american activist . I hope this girl was muslim and May allah rest her soul in Janaah… http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-03-16-american-woman-killed_x.htm GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In a matter of months, Rachel Corrie went from the orderly peace movement of this small liberal city to a deadly world of gunfire, violent political conflict and the bulldozer that crushed her to death. Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, died Sunday in Gaza while trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. In an e-mail earlier this month, Corrie had described a Feb. 14 confrontation with another Israeli bulldozer in which she referred to herself and other activists as "internationals." "The internationals stood in the path of the bulldozer and were physically pushed with the shovel backwards, taking shelter in a house," Corrie wrote in the e-mail, distributed in a March 3 news release by the International Solidarity Movement. "The bulldozer then proceeded on its course, demolishing one side of the house with the internationals inside," she wrote. Just a few months before her death, Corrie had been organizing events as an activist in Olympia's peace movement and at Evergreen, a small campus know for its devotion to liberal causes. Through a local group called Olympians for Peace in the Middle East, she joined the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led group that uses nonviolent methods to challenge Israeli occupation. Among their methods is standing in front of the bulldozers Israel sends into the area nearly ever day to destroy buildings near the Gaza-Egypt border. Other protesters who were with Corrie in Gaza on Sunday said she was wearing a bright colored jacket when the bulldozer hit her. "Rachel was alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them to stop," said Greg Schnabel, 28, of Chicago. "She waved for the bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled, 'Stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at all." Israeli military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal said her death was an accident. State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said the U.S. government had asked Israeli officials for a full investigation. A tearful Craig Corrie, Rachel's father, remembered his daughter Sunday as "dedicated to everybody." "We've tried to bring up our children to have a sense of community, a sense of community that everybody in the world belonged to," he said from his home in Charlotte, N.C. "Rachel believed that — with her life, now." Corrie was already a committed peace activist when she arrived at Evergreen State, a small campus is known for devotion to liberal causes, said Larry Mosqueda, one of Corrie's professors and a fellow activist. "She was concerned about human rights and dignity," he said. "That's why she was there." The move from organizer to front-line opposition in a war zone was a switch for Corrie, whom friends said was not usually inclined to the overt acts of civil disobedience that characterized such events as the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. "As long as I've known her she's always been very energetic and very focused about social justice," said Phan Nguyen, 28, a friend and fellow activist who has made several similar trips to the West Bank. "It seemed natural that she would do something like this." In her e-mailed dispatch from Rafah, Corrie painted a picture of the perilous life of a human shield, recounting a Feb. 14 confrontation with the Israelis. "We can only imagine what it is like for Palestinians living here, most of them already once-or-twice refugees already, for whom this is not a nightmare," Corrie wrote, "but a continuous reality from which international privilege cannot protect them, and from which they have no economic means to escape." May Allah rest your soul in Janaah.. you have done what many men feared... Mashaa alaah Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JIDAAWY Posted March 18, 2003 can someone please move this topic to Polotics ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
