Rachel Corrie Wasn’t the Only ISM Member Playing Chicken with a Bulldozer That Day (PJM Exclusive)
According to one of Corrie’s colleagues, whose recollections were published three days after her death (emphasis mine):
For two hours we attempted at great risk to ourselves to obstruct and frustrate the bulldozers in their work.
Another ISM colleague stated:
Our group began to stand in front of these bulldozers in an attempt to stop them. Generally they did not stop when we stood in front of them, but continued to push the earth up from underneath our feet to push us away. 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 between the bulldozer and a pile of razor wire. The bulldozer stopped at the last minute in Will’s case. If it had moved any closer he would have been impaled by the razor wire.
Besides “Will,” Newsweek’s Hammer reported on “Jenny’s” close call:
An Irish peace activist named Jenny was nearly run down by a D9. “The bulldozer’s coming, the earth is burying my feet, my legs, I’ve got nowhere to run, and I thought, ‘This is out of control,’” she told me. “Another activist pulled me up and out of the way at the last minute.”
On that day in March 2003, the ISM internationals had decided to play a game of Russian roulette with the Israeli army, and Corrie lost.
At the trial in Haifa last week, Corrie’s colleagues testified that Rachel stood in front of the bulldozer and the driver intentionally drove over her. Israel has been saying for seven years that the driver couldn’t see her. Again, careful review of news accounts and statements made by ISMers immediately after her death prove that Corrie was squatting down amidst the rubble, thus minimizing her profile:
“When the bulldozer approached a house today,” wrote the New York Times, “Ms. Corrie, who was wearing a bright orange jacket, dropped to her knees.”
“The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its scoop as it went,” an ISM friend stated in 2003. “She knelt there, she did not move.”
Another colleague related: “She did not ‘trip and fall’ in front of the bulldozer. She sat down in front of it, well in advance.“
He added: “Corrie dropped her bullhorn and sat down in front of one of the bulldozers. She fully expected that the driver would stop just in front of her.”
The conclusion: Corrie’s ISM colleagues may have committed perjury.
The result of ISM’s aggressive actions and Corrie’s carelessness was tragically predictable. Wrote Hammer:
The IDF “makes a credible case that the operators, peering out through narrow, double-glazed, bulletproof windows, their view obscured behind pistons and the giant scooper, might not have seen Corrie kneeling in front of them.”
There’s no doubt this is well-organized “lawfare” against Israel. Craig Corrie told the Israeli Yediot newspaper last week that they cannot take their case to the International Court until after exhausting all legal measures in Israel. Father Corrie’s intention is clear.
After reviewing the case, another suit should be brought: the International Solidarity Movement should be on trial, not Israel. ISM founder George Rishmaw told the San Francisco Chronicle that Corrie was cannon fodder for the organization:
When Palestinians get shot by Israeli soldiers, no one is interested anymore. But if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.
IF the posters want to connect the dots between the ISM and terror, they would do well to go to the articles posted by investigative journalist, Lee Kaplan, at Frontpage Magazine.NO one knows the ins and outs of the ISM more than he does.
I assisted him for over 2 years in the investigation, bringing to light the FACT that the ISM, and its many terror offshoots, were violating US tax laws under the non-profit regulations.
Look in the archives at Frontpage under Lee Kaplan for his articles during 2004-2007, and it will tell you all you need to know about the terror aiding, terror abetting ISM!! See in particular, ‘Does the ISM Violate US Tax Laws’.
Correction to my previous post- see, ‘Does the Pro-Terror Left Violate US Tax Laws’……
Another rich American goes vacationing in other people’s misery and gets into trouble. These rich American kids are taught that they can go anywhere in the world and involve themselves in dangerous conflicts and that they should never be at risk. Let us see we will go hiking on the Iranian Iraqui border. oh no, let.s try to sneak into Communist North Korea and stir things up; etc etc rich Americans are causing so much trouble in the world and believing all along that they are the saviors of the world.
I guess the lesson to be learned was there could be only two choices…lock up all the ISM types and impound their passports or just not pull them from under bulldozers.
I am a little short on the sympathy side for these parents as they fall into a couple of categories…”reap what you sew” and “forgot to tell daughter about real life”, that is bulldozers will win most arguments.
Maybe Darwin had a point.
If you’re going to use sayings to good effect, you should look up how they’re spelled first.
seriously, this is a Debate that placing yourself in front of a bulldozer is going to result in harm..??
stupid acts result in stupid results
I remember well the situation when this happened. I can lather up sympathy – for the poor operator of the Caterpillar.
But if you’re stupid enough to challenge a bulldozer, you play on the same field of ignorance that the “peace” activists challenging a thermobaric bombs do after launch. Chances are incredibly high you’re going to die.
Textbook case of pampered brat trying to find purpose, Rachel’s lasting legacy to become useful idiot. And Rachel’s irresponsible parents now magnify as to the why, helping to explain why Rachel found herself in such an untenable position.
To bad Rachel’s mother didn’t give her the same good advice my mother gave me. “Don’t tempt fate.”
More good advice from mom: “Tex when you wish to use to designating an excessive degree,” use too.
Tsk tsk…
Though I agree the ISM group was behaving stupidly, and I think between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel is usually far more humane and respectful of human rights (recall a Hamas leader’s remarkable son who recently in a news interview pointed out that at least Israel brings its own politicians and leaders to trial and at least Israel is subject to the limits of its own laws and constitution; the unprincipled Hamas, the son said, has no limits and no laws; when, he insisted, have you seen Hamas bring its own leaders to trial), but still, I wonder if there wasn’t another alternative for the Israelis than playing chicken with these stupid protesters. I’m not sure that was up to Israel’s own standards. True, if the bulldozer operator did not see Corrie, then my question is relevant only if the operator knew that the protesters were near and tending to throw themselves in front of the bulldozer. Would it have been possible, without undue risk to Israeli soldiers, for Israel to remove the protesters from the area before continuing bulldozing?
St. Pancake was a tool but I agree with traeh, they should have been arrested and jailed or at least deported. Instead the terrorists got what they wanted and now the Israeli courts further that agenda with this stupid trial.
I disagree. The ISM activists entered a closed area in which military operations were underway. What ultimately happened to Rachel was an all too probably outcome.
The most I can fault the Israelis in this case is that they did not post prominent signage in Hebrew, Arabic, English, French and Spanish; “Military operations ahead. Non-authorized entry may be repelled by use of lethal force”. Such language is commonly used at US military training facilities.
I see that Darwin was in the M.E.
These bulldozers are huge, noisy and slow moving. You can’t get run down by one unless you’re completely deaf and blind (or very stupid as it turns out…). Corrie was fully responsible for her acts and no one can be blamed for her death but herself. On the other hand the driver had a very limited visibility and Corrie could not have been in his range of sight at all times. Considering these facts, any court that points the responsibility towards the driver would be as stupid as Corrie.
For heaven’s sake, Israel, stop apologizing! Rachel Corrie was a terrorist sympathizer who got EXACTLY what she deserved. She and those other ISM would be terrorists were perfectly happy to celebrate alongside their Palestinian comrades as the Palestinians launched rockets and mortars onto Jewish kindergartens, so Israel owes them exactly nothing. The notion of Israel holding a trial now is going to do nothing but give more propaganda fuel to the ISM. Corrie’s parents should be told bluntly that their daughter got what she deserved for supporting terrorists.
Playing chicken with a bulldozer is pretty dumb. But then again no one ever accused the Marxists of having good sense. Or a brain.
When I was a child, and the population of the US still has a brain in its head, that was referred to as “death by folly” which basically meant that your own poor judgment got you killed. I would like to say that I sympathy for her but unfortunately my tears have been all used up mourning the Israelis murdered by the people these thugs support. She did it to herself. It’s a shame that her parents didn’t raise her properly.
Are these ISM idiots still playing chicken with the bulldozers? I haven’t seen anything on the news since Corrie got flattened.
As much as I grieve for Corri’s parents, I grieve more for the many Israeli parents that have lost children to suicide bombers and indiscriminate rockets fired from Gaza. The difference being that Corri’s parents could have told her”don’t act like an idiot, go to school and do somthing productive with your life”. Israeli parents don’t have that choice.
What I can’t figure out is why Israel keeps letting these people in. Don’t they have a VISA system in place? Deny them entry, then if they get run over by a bulldozer, it’s the result of illegal as well as stupid actions.
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.”
Hmm…
“nasty foreign bitches” “our Palestinian young men are following around.”
Just having a second look at these statements.
Something’s up with that in IMHO.
This was the political group that was on their side?
Curious.
Who’s to say that she didn’t sacrifice herself over a lost love affair with a Palestinian? That letter would be like a death blow for that relationship, and they’d only be in contact with males as the females are under wraps and locked up in their houses.
Her suicide happened on the same morning.
She could have decided in a youthful rash decision to make a martyr of herself. Has a history of making ‘rash’ decisions from the moment she injected herself into this place.
This circulating anonymous letter would sink any chances she had of being accepted as a ‘wife’ or even having a relationship (or what-have-you) there at that point, no? Not implying anything else but a lost love angle here. Imagine the twisted logic in her mind if this happened? Could be enough to drive someone in this position to suicide IMHO.
Given her open display of being someone who willingly became a political provocative pawn, making rash decisions of high risk life threatening behavior – on display by their own protesters testimony; being disrespectful and disruptive of laws of the land her political group occupied; a manipulator of media/paliwood, she appeared overly invested in something she really had no control over (or business for that matter).
Was she malingering enough to plan this as a great “score” for her political side? Her whole personal was over invested in this very politically delicate and volatile issue that’s centuries old. Her side had the LSM media in their pockets to begin with and it’s not like the MSM/LSM & Paliwood HAVE not MURDERED their own on CAMERA – all to blame it on the Jews – same old story in that department.
I belive her to have orchestrated this suicide due in part to a lost love interest and to ensure a huge ‘score’ for her gang’s side as they and she realized that the rest of the world was not as malleable as they assumed and they were not as powerful/important as they thought – given the ratcheting up of their daily actions to the point that her life was lost and close calls just before – it’s obvious that the unfortunate outcome was predictable.
Sometimes when you stay stuck on stupid, you die.
how did corrie get into israel and then gaza?
she lied on her visa application and to the authorities when she landed in israel.
it is part of the ism training.
legally, israel had every right to apprehend her in gaza, hold her for questioning and then expel her from the country.
they didnt, because the israeli gov is still under the false assumption that if they treat so called peace activists humanely, the world will see that they are a just state.
corrie was a disturbed young girl with a death wish.
she got her wish, and her parents lawsuit holds no water
i would like to add one thing
i am a liberal
the ism, rachel and her parents are not.
they are radicals who support the right wing ideology of islamic terrorists.
this goes for people like norman finkelstein, noam chompsky and others
anyone who supports hamas, hezbollah or the pa cannot honestly call themselves a liberal.
No such thing as ‘the right wing ideology of islamic terrorists’ IMHO.
The ideology of islamic terrorists are neither right nor left, just dead below the rest of us.
However if pressed I’d say they match the nazis and thefore that places them on the left.
Rachael will not be reproducing,fortunately.
Two ISM leaders (Joe Smith, present when Rachel Corrie was killed, and George Rishmawi) expressed a motive–anti-Israel publicity–for wanting her dead, as did at least two of the Palestinians with whom they were working. When somebody has been “murdered” as the ISM claims, it is heap bad juju to express a motive for wanting the decedent dead.
The ISM also knowingly, recklessly, and willfully endangered Rachel’s life (per its own accounts, it said it knew there was a risk of fatality or serious injury but nonetheless allowed or encouraged her to do what she did). At what point does the ISM step over the line to the legal definition of reckless endangerment or worse?
The article says,
“Our group began to stand in front of these bulldozers in an attempt to stop them. Generally they did not stop when we stood in front of them, but continued to push the earth up from underneath our feet to push us away. 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 between the bulldozer and a pile of razor wire. The bulldozer stopped at the last minute in Will’s case. If it had moved any closer he would have been impaled by the razor wire.”
Besides “Will,” Newsweek’s Hammer reported on “Jenny’s” close call: “An Irish peace activist named Jenny was nearly run down by a D9. “The bulldozer’s coming, the earth is burying my feet, my legs, I’ve got nowhere to run, and I thought, ‘This is out of control,’” she told me. “Another activist pulled me up and out of the way at the last minute.””
The ISM’s account at Electronic Intifada adds that Rachel herself was almost run over in a previous encounter with a bulldozer. In other words, we have THREE cases in which people were almost killed through this form of civil disobedience, thus making the risks obvious to a “reasonable person,” but the ISM chose to continue to engage in it, thus recklessly endangering the lives of its activists.
Lawfare works both ways and shouldn’t be left solely in the arsenal of Israel’s enemies.
Someone or some agency or organization should bring criminal charges and file civil suits against every party involved in ISM’s premeditated incident. Conspiracy charges can involve everyone with pre-knowledge of ISM’s plans and every phase from initial planning to its execution. Follow the chain of evidence and file charges against those whose arranged transportation, accommodations, provide intelligence, etc. Make their lives as miserable as they attempt to make Israeli lives miserable. Time and money they must spend for legal defense is time and money not used against Israel. Lawfare can and should cut in both directions.
Michael Perloff wrote, “Conspiracy charges can involve everyone with pre-knowledge of ISM’s plans and every phase from initial planning to its execution. Follow the chain of evidence and file charges against those whose arranged transportation, accommodations, provide intelligence, etc.”
I am not an attorney but I could envision Craig and Cindy Corrie having a very strong case against the ISM members who knowingly, willfully, and recklessly endangered their daughter’s life.
The ISM trains its activists in civil disobedience and direct action. I think a case can be made that somebody who “trains” people to play chicken with bulldozers is civilly if not criminally liable if a fatality occurs.
I also think somebody should look into precedents in which groups that engage collectively in dangerous behavior, e.g. a group of teens that encourage two of their number to play “chicken” with automobiles with a fatal outcome, are held responsible for manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, or whatever. People have been charged criminally for fatal outcomes in Russian Roulette, although generally when pointing the gun at another person. I would like to see precedents in which the survivor(s) were charged after one of their number won a Darwin Award by blowing his own brains out.
Federal definition of manslaughter: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001112—-000-.html “Involuntary—In the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.”
It sounds like the ISM engaged in unlawful conduct and/or without due caution and circumspection acts that a reasonable person would expect to result in death or serious injury. If Israel has a similar law, maybe it can demand the extradition of the ISM personnel involved.
What has happened to the true video of 2003 showing Rachel Corrie get run over by a Jew bulldozing her to death. It use to be on net I cant fine it any wheres just still pictures?
Rachel Corrie was not a “peace activist” but an anarchist who sought to aid Hamas as a human shield for them. She had no qualms aboutinterfering with the IDF to draw fire down on IDF soldiers. The day she died, the ISM stood in front of IDF military vehicles and pointed at their chests screaming “shoot me! shoot me!” because they knew if the soldiers exited their vehicles to arrest them they would be shot by Arab snipers.Her parents have been making a living off her death
by touring the USA and Israel calling for Boycotts and Divestment from Israel and promoting all manner of anti-Israel groups that openly call for Israel to be deatroyed or dismantled. They are doing this to create a precedent to get their case into the Hague as another stab at Israel because the Hague is a kangaroo court against the Jewish state. I am currently in Israel to get the truth out to the government so the ISM can be finally shut down here. You would be amazed at how many Israelis know nothing about the Rachel Corrie case and this fraud that the ISM uses to promote worldwide hatred against Israel. The Corrie parents could discourage other people’s children to not volunteer for the ISM or parents to discourage allowing their children to join this subversive group. This lawsuit will backfire on the ISM because the truth will finaly come out: Rachel Corrie was indeed killed by an accident she created herself, the IDF and driver are innocent ande the doe-eyed Mrs. Corrie bears more responsibility for the death of her daiughter than anyone in Israel or the IDF. The video mentioned here is on my website at http://www.Stoptheism.com
on the homepage.
It should be noted that news is still reporting that Corrie died protecting a house which was an ISM concotioon. Rachel Corrie placed herself in front of a D9 that was clearing brush to find and destroy weapons smuggling tunnels. Evil can only survive itself so long. As mentioned, this trial will ultimately prove how the Corrie family is profiting over the loss of their child who they should have insisted stay home instead of being an anarchist and playing with terrorists.
LOL LOL LOL
I wish that people discussing this issue would stop saying Corrie was “crushed by” the D9.
Someone run over by a Cat of that size is not left with fatal head injuries but a bad case of Full Body Goo Syndrome.
ISM activists AND the autopsy noted that she died of head injuries. Photos taken of ISM activists surrounding her after her introduction to physics show her lying there completely in tact but with blood appearing to originate from a wound to the head. 50+ tons of machine, with 70+ tons of drawbar weight will trump even the most hard-headed idealist’s noggin.