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Human rights activist Rachel Corrie was run over by an Israeli bulldozer. Why did she get killed? What crime did she do to deserve this??
She is now honored in a play about her life showing to audiences in Canada and London… the show has been running for several weeks and is selling out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3JI-axaR…
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Killing Americans with American donated weapons and playing innocent is a national pastime in Israel.
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What happened to her? She died.
Why did she get killed? People need to learn not endanger themselves around heavy equipment. It obviously isn’t safe. That’s why she died.
What crime? She didn't do a crime people die not in relation to crimes sometimes.
Oh i get it, you tryilng to be sneaky!!! *wink* OK real question I have the ability to answer this,
Is Israel responsible? No.
Investigation was done.
“The driver at no point saw or heard Corrie. She was standing behind debris which obstructed the view of the driver and the driver had a very limited field of vision due to the protective cage he was working in.
“The driver and his commanders were interrogated extensively over a long period of time with the use of polygraph tests and video evidence. They’d no knowledge that she was standing in the path of the tractor. An autopsy of Corrie's body revealed that the cause of death was from falling debris and not from the tractor physically rolling over her. It was a tragic accident that never should have happened.
“The International Solidarity Movement, to which Corrie belonged, was directly responsible for illegal behavior and conduct in the area of Corrie's death and their actions directly led to this tragedy.”[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corr…
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Ya know….some people do die without there being a massive conspiracy behind it. When you’re around heavy equipment like that you have to be observant at all times. The people operating them have blind spots and can’t hear if any one was calling out to them. This really makes me think though….my husband was hurt by a tractor a few months ago…I'm seriously getting suspicious of the cows.
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she was a dumb b*tch who stood in front of a bulldozer to protect terrorists it was an accident but i think she deserved it because she was to dumb to move out of the way
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If you go to a war zone then lie down in front of a bulldozer you can't seriously anticipate to get out of it without getting injured.
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American Rachel Corrie was killed in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003, when she entered an area where Israeli forces were carrying out a military operation. The incident occurred while IDF forces were removing shrubbery along the security road near the border between Israel and Egypt at Rafah to uncover explosive devices, and destroying tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt to Gaza. Corrie wasn’t demonstrating for peace or trying to shield innocent civilians, she was interfering with a military operation to legally demolish an empty home used to conceal one of these tunnels.
A misleading photo published by the Associated Press gave the impression that Corrie was standing in front of the bulldozer and shouting at the driver with a megaphone, trying to prevent the driver from tearing down a building in the refugee camp. This photo, which was taken by a member of Corrie’s organization, wasn’t shot at the time of her death, however, but hours earlier. The photographer said that Corrie was actually sitting and waving her arms when she was struck.23
Israel’s Judge Advocate’s Office investigated the incident and concluded that the driver of the bulldozer never saw or heard Corrie because she was standing behind debris that obstructed the view of the driver whose field of view was limited by the small armored windows of his cab. An autopsy found that the cause of Corrie’s death was falling debris.24
The Say Department warned Americans not to travel to Gaza, and Israel made clear that civilians who enter areas where troops are engaged in counter-terror operations put themselves unnecessarily at risk.
This was not the first time protestors have tried to obstruct Israeli operations, and the IDF has made each effort to avoid harming them. This case received worldwide publicity in large measure because it was the first such incident where a protestor was killed. In fact, the army had told Corrie and other demonstrators from the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM) to move out of the way. “It’s possible they [the protesters] were not as disciplined as we would have liked,” admitted Thom Saffold, a founder and organizer of ISM.25
The death of an innocent civilian is always tragic, and the best way to avoid such tragedies in the future is, first and foremost, by the Palestinian Authority putting an end to violence, and stopping the smuggling operations that have brought massive quantities of illegal weapons into the Gaza Strip. Activists interested in peace should be protesting the Palestinian actions. Activists also have every right to express their views about Israel’s policies, but they should take care to avoid the appearance of siding with the terrorists or placing themselves in positions where they could be inadvertently caught in the crossfire of a counter-terror operation or otherwise endangered by entering an area where military operations are being conducted.
“No matter how you turn the question, Rachel Corrie's death Sunday is a tragedy….But Corrie's death is no more tragic than the deaths of other young people — some of them young Americans who had traveled to Israel — who died in bombings committed by Palestinian terrorists. They're also worth remembering today. However you feel about Corrie's actions, whether she was a martyr or misguided, she at least made her choice. Palestinian terrorists didn't give the young people killed in their bombings any choice in their deaths. That, it seems to us, is another kind of tragedy for these young Americans and their families.”