American Woman Burried by Isreali Tank

I'm with you Littlek! Grrrrrr!!!!

Hiya Gez, thanks for dropping in.

;-)

I feel sickened by such stories. The local Public Radio station has people over there who report about this activity regularly.

<Huge, despairing sigh>

I'm listening to a program called 'Wake Up Call' on WBAI outta NYC (I figure that for awhile Pacifica is gonna be my primary news source), and this is the lead story.

I keep NPR on all the time in the car, but I'm not in there enough. I'll have to streamline it through my PC.

littlek:

Not NPR--WBAI is a Pacifica Station!

yes, but I listen to NPR....
I'm not sure what you're saying.

Some photos of what happened!!!

If you see those photos it was verry hard NOT to see her!!! This is murder!

LittleK:

I thought maybe you though WBAI was NPR, I was saying that it's a different group that runs it--that's all.

Palestinians held a symbolic funeral yesterday for U.S. student Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer as she protested the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strips's Rafah refugee camp.

Holding a stretcher draped with an American flag, some 1,000 Palestinians marched through the refugee camp as a sign of mourning for the 23-year-old American who was killed on Sunday.

"We fly a U.S. flag today to show our support to all American peace lovers - those like Rachel," said Palestinian farmer Hassan Abu Toa'ma, 24.

It was a rare change of pace for Rafah, where American flags have more often been burned than held in reverence since the Palestinian uprising began in late September 2000.

Corrie was suffocated when one of the bulldozers piled sand on her body after she lay down in front of the vehicle to block its path.

The IDF described the incident as "a regrettable accident," and said that because the driver's vision had been hampered by the small armored windows of the vehicle, he hadn't seen Corrie as he went about his work.

Corrie, a student from Evergreen State College, had been in Gaza trying to prevent house demolitions for two months as a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She was from Olympia, Washington.

In Gaza City, dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists held a vigil for Corrie, holding banners saying, "Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is a war criminal."

School children befriended by Corrie during her time in Rafah filed past the American woman's body at the local morgue. Friends said Corrie's parents were coming to Gaza to retrieve the body.

"They want her remains to be left untouched until they come," said a friend of Corrie.

I think, however, that the officer that commanded the action should be punished for negligence: he should take care of removal from the site all the foreign nationals and transferring them to the police force prior to starting demolishing the houses of terrorists.
If he did this, Miss Corey would remain alive, safe and sound.

I try not to look at the pictures, frolic.

steissd, this was a bulldoze driver, not a politician.

I know. But there was an officer that commanded the operation. He was supposed to take care of the problem, and to remove all the suicidal foreigners from the site.

and where was the officer? In the bulldozer or on the ground?

No matter the politics involved, it just isn't smart to stand in front of a bulldozer, or tank, or any vehicle with the intent of using your body to stop it. If you're going to sit down in the middle of the street (or whatever) and block traffic as part of your protest, then IMO you deserve to get run over.

I agree with steissd, however, that this should never have happened.