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Old 03-17-2003, 12:46 PM   #1
dave
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American Protestor killed in Gaza

You've probably read or heard the news, but here's the gist of it:

23 year old American Rachel Corrie was protesting the demolition of a home in the Gaza strip. The demolition was, apparently, because Israel is creating a buffer zone (in other words, not because the home owner, who is a doctor, is a militant).

She's standing in front of the house and the bulldozer runs her over. She has, apparently, been there for some three hours, so it's not as if they didn't know she was there. You can read descriptions of it elsewhere.

Because I think it's important to remember these things, I've saved a picture of her, but it wouldn't be right to mislead you. It's not just a picture of her; it's a picture of her crushed head.

Here is a link to the picture.

I've noticed a rather calm reaction to her death. One wrote, and I agree, that if she had been killed by Iraqi soldiers, we would be at war already. Yet she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer, and while we've demanded a "full investigation" into the incident - whatever that means - we are not nearly as heated in this issue as we most certainly would be if the perpetrator were Iraqi.

What do you all think?
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