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Memorial to US activist in West Bank |
2008-03-21 |
Guess who... NABLUS, West Bank - The parents of U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer, marked the fifth anniversary of her death Thursday by dedicating a small West Bank memorial. Real small, I'll bet... Corrie was 23 when she was run over by a 60-ton Israeli bulldozer in 2003 as she tried to prevent a Palestinian home from being demolished. The driver said he didn't see her, and the Israeli military ruled her death accidental. Ya didn't have to be Kreskin to see how that one was gonna turn out... On Thursday, about 150 Palestinians and foreigners attended the memorial, gathering in a street in the West Bank city of Nablus, led by Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig. Some held up photos of Rachel, who was from Olympia, Wash. I wonder if they had the flag burning one? Her parents have repeatedly returned to the Palestinian territories, including to the spot in the southern Gaza town of Rafah where she was killed. Hope a tunnel doesn't collapse underneath them. They might get hurt. Cindy Corrie told the crowd that her daughter believed Palestine could be a "source of hope for people struggling all over the world." How'd ya think that one's worked out for her, moms? The parents did not say why they placed the memorial in the West Bank instead of Gaza. Maybe cuz the last time they went there, they got kidnapped by Rachel's dear old friends? But Gaza is mired in violence and ruled by the militant Islamic Hamas, while moderate President Mahmoud Abbas administers the West Bank, which is relatively calmer. In a 2006 visit to Gaza, the Corries were apparent targets of an unsuccessful kidnap attempt by Palestinian militants. Ah, I'm not the only one that remembers. |
Posted by:tu3031 |
#14 The peace movement always falls a little flat. |
Posted by: Darrell 2008-03-21 10:18 |
#13 Including the "spot" insert moist |
Posted by: Steven 2008-03-21 09:52 |
#12 "Real small, I'll bet..." and with very little height |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2008-03-21 09:27 |
#11 Tens of thousand people being killed every year in Sudan and this bitch went to protest against... Israel. |
Posted by: JFM 2008-03-21 08:49 |
#10 Sura 63: And Rachel, which is Yahoodi for "the ewe", was taken to the place of tunneling and there she was flattened even as the baklawa (pastry be praised). Lo, even as she was flattened the Prophet looked upon her and engaged in exposition, "She is of the Yahoodi that are in Olympia where the women may travel long distances without a male relative. Flatten her for she is a whore." |
Posted by: Excalibur 2008-03-21 08:07 |
#9 They do like to hold up stupidity for future worship and emulation, don't they? |
Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-21 07:30 |
#8 Varoom, varoom, clank, clank, clank. ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] |
Posted by: Besoeker 2008-03-21 06:56 |
#7 Maybe cuz the last time they went there, they got kidnapped by Rachel's dear old friends? A lost bit of trivia in the saga of St Pancake, that always seems to be misplaced LINK |
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Sneter1588 2008-03-21 06:44 |
#6 "*sob* that picture looks so lifelike" "that's cuz it's two dimensional, like your dear Rachel after her flattening" |
Posted by: Frank G 2008-03-21 06:44 |
#5 Saint Pancake is truly a blessing. Every time I think about her a smile comes to my face on the lessons of 'Cause and effect'. In time, maybe we'll be able to make her into a bed-time story like "The boy who cried wolf". |
Posted by: Charles 2008-03-21 05:31 |
#4 Cool! IHOP has gone international! |
Posted by: gorb 2008-03-21 04:15 |
#3 About the time that pot became synonymous with "Hippie". |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-21 03:56 |
#2 Late sixties. |
Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-03-21 02:27 |
#1 When exactly did the word 'activist' come to mean 'moron'? |
Posted by: SteveS 2008-03-21 00:29 |