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Who Killed Rachel Corrie?

(Times of Israel) Lenny Ben-David - The first accounts and affidavits after the accident state that Corrie was sitting or kneeling on the ground, not standing. A colleague related: "She did not 'trip and fall' in front of the bulldozer. She sat down in front of it." Corrie's colleagues told Newsweek's Joshua Hammer in a 2003 Mother Jones article: "For two hours we attempted at great risk to ourselves to obstruct and frustrate the bulldozers in their work." Said another: "Several times we had to dive away at the last moment in order to avoid being crushed. This continued for about two and a half hours....At one point, Will from the United States was nearly crushed." Why would the "internationals" risk their lives in such a way? Hammer explained that the ISM members had decided to take their confrontation with the IDF up a notch to prove themselves to the local population: "An anonymous letter was circulating which referred to Corrie and the other expatriate women in Rafah as 'nasty foreign bitches' whom 'our Palestinian young men are following around.' That morning [of Corrie's death], the ISM team tried to devise a strategy to counteract the letter's effects. 'We all had a feeling that our role was too passive,' said one ISM member. 'The idea was to more directly challenge the Israeli military dominance using our international status.'"
2012-08-31 00:00:00
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