A shame someone had to die, but what did this fool think she was getting involved in?
An Israeli Army bulldozer today crushed to death an American woman who had kneeled in the dirt to prevent the armored vehicle from destroying a Palestinian home in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and hospital officials said.
The Israeli military said the driver of the bulldozer had not seen the woman, and called it a “very regrettable accident.”
Regrettable, and completely avoidable. You could avoid it by quit trying to stick your nose into the affairs of nations who are under siege and desparate to defend themselves.
In Olympia, Colin Reese, a student at Evergreen State and a close friend of Ms. Corrie, said she had focused much of her studies on community organizing. Describing her work in Gaza, he said, “She was particularly touched by the Palestinian situation and wanted to use her privilege as an American citizen to help defend against the Israeli occupation.”
One of Ms. Corrie’s teachers at Evergreen was Larry Mosqueda, a professor of political economy and social change, who said her work in Gaza was a reflection of lessons taught at Evergreen that encourage students to put their education to practical use while still in college. “She has a strong sense of social justice,” he said. “Basically, she wanted to do something about it instead of just talk about it.”
In an e-mail message this month, Ms. Corrie described a Feb. 14 standoff in which members of her group “stood in the path of the bulldozers and were physically pushed with the shovel backwards, taking shelter in a house.” She added that “the bulldozer then proceeded on its course, demolishing one side of the house” with the protesters still inside.
If you had any idea bout her politics, the Evergreen State bit should have cleared that up. You remember Evergreen State- the school that convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal as their comencement speaker.
Go check out our now dead ‘peace protestor’ bruning an American flag. Now I feel no sympathy. To hell with her.
Barney Gumble
“Regrettable, and completely avoidable. You could avoid it by quit trying to stick your nose into the affairs of nations who are under siege and desparate to defend themselves.”
DEAL!
America should stop subsidizing Israel and forget the place ever existed.
Oh, suddenly “quit trying to stick your nose into the affairs of other nations” doesn’t sound like a good idea?
John Cole
Wow. Why am I not surprised that you can’t tell the difference between government policy and stoned college students being a menace?
Andrew Lazarus
I’m not 100% sympathetic to Ms. Corrie’s cause, but the bulldozer act was deliberate and completely unjustified. How would you feel if we started running over the anti-abortion protestors in front of clinics?
MommaBear
Take a gander at this and then say she didn’t deserve it…she freaking stood on the dozer blade like a damn fool!!
http://silflayhraka.blogspot.com/2003_03_16_silflayhraka_archive.html#90829505
Barney Gumble
“Why am I not surprised that you can’t tell the difference between government policy and stoned college students being a menace?”
1) Because there’s not much different between GWB and a stoned college student?
2) Because in democracies people set policies for the government, government doesn’t set the policies for the people?
3) Doesn’t “stoned college students being a menace” set off your oxymoron alarm?
4) The last time we heard of “stoned college students being a menace” was in Tienanmen Square around 1989?
5) The second to last time we heard of “stoned college students being a menace” was in Argentina around 1976?
6) If your society is so warped that it is threatened by “stoned college students being a menace”, isn’t it time to consider that the society is the problem?
7) At what point do the atrocities that the Israelis do to the Palestinians become indestiguishable from those the Germans did to the Jews? At what point does John Cole say to himself, “I have become an SS Officer?”
Barney Gumble
Palestinian toddler among 10 killed in Gaza
raidshttp://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s809056.htm
Andrew Lazarus
Hey, Momma Bear, that guy in Tiananmen Square, he just stood in front of the tank and I thought he was a hero. I bet you thought he was a hero, too. Or did he deserve to be run over? (He has since been executed.)
Are you sure you aren’t confusing the issue of whether Ms. Corrie’s death was a stupid murder with the SEPARABLE issue of whether the cause she died for was a good one?
HH
“Because there’s not much different between GWB and a stoned college student?”
Bye bye credibility. It seemed you were interested in serious discussion for a millisecond there.
HH
“Because there’s not much different between GWB and a stoned college student?”
Bye bye credibility. It seemed you were interested in serious discussion for a millisecond there.
Barney Gumble
Mever a chance of that–John Cole’s position is “Israel right, always.” Not much room for maneuvering there. The notion that all people are created equal doesn’t exist for him. It’s almost like he thinks God made his people special and the rest of us are just modern day Canaanites, to be exterminated as soon as they have the ability. I’m hoping I can save his soul from going to Sheol, though.
I’m not picking on a civilian either, he shows his ass over at atrios.blogspot.com regularly.
HH, when are you going to add commenting over at TVH? You make your share of unfounded assertaions too…
John Cole
Barney- That is not the case at all. There are a number of things that could be done by Israel to ease tensions. Ending the settlements, for example.
HH
“when are you going to add commenting over at TVH?”
Possibly when I’m posting less than 12 a day or when there are 48 hours in the day… or at the very least when I post something I think requires comments, and I will add comments to that post.
But somehow I don’t think I need comments in order to satisfy someone who partially stole their blog title from yours truly’s other blog… which, what do you know, has comments, because I post there less often.
As for “unsupported assertions,” look who’s talking… and interesting that you offer zero examples.