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March 16th Is International Day of Conscience / Rachel Corrie Day of Action
Dear Supporter:
On March 16, 2003, human rights activist Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to protect a home in Gaza from demolition while the family was inside. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier ran over Rachel in a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Rachel was 23 years old. Seven years after her killing, Rachel's parents are still seeking truth and accountability. Today is Rachel's day in court and Israel must be held accountable for Rachel's killing - take action now.
After Rachel's killing, Israel conducted an investigation that even the U.S. State Department said was not thorough enough and neither credible nor transparent. The U.S. government advised Rachel's parents Cindy and Craig Corrie to sue Israel, which they did in March 2005. Their case is finally starting in the Haifa District Court in Israel today. Follow the trial at the Rachel Corrie Foundation website http://www.rachelcorriefoundation.org/.
CCR sued Caterpillar (view the details of the case Corri et al. v. Caterpillar) on behalf of Rachel's parents as well as four Palestinian families whose family members were killed or injured when Caterpillar bulldozers demolished their homes. The court dismissed that case in 2007 because it would put into question the U.S. government's decision to pay for the bulldozer sales.
Accountability is required not only for Rachel's killing but for the thousands of killings and injuries in Gaza. You can support the Corries and other victims of the continued occupation of Palestine by taking action on the International Day of Conscience, also known as the Rachel Corrie Day of Action, on March 16, 2010. Contact the White House to break the blockade on Gaza by phone at (202) 456-1111; fax (202) 456-2461; or email at www.whitehouse.gov/contact. Tell President Obama to break the Gaza blockade; provide immediate humanitarian aid; and urge Special Envoy Mitchell to visit Gaza.
Thank you for standing with the Corries and all the families whose loved ones have been killed and harmed throughout Palestine/Israel.
Sincerely,
Annette Dickerson
Director of Education and Outreach
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With "Friends" like Israel . . .
(clipped title and text for video clip)
"Rachel Corrie, 23yo American killed by Israli troops - A clip from the documentary 'occupation 101', a film which details the Israli invasion and occupation of the Palestinian lands.
If this story of Rachel Corrie, and activist killed while trying to prevent Palestinian homes from being demolished by Isralis, doesn't touch your heart, you're just not human. This girl is a real American hero."
(link to video clip - approx. 7 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWkWib5CTs&feature=player_embedded
Of course, ISRAEL is the VICTIM here . . . as Haifa Professor Steven Plaut clearly points out in this article from Mar 03 2010. . .
(clipped headline and article form The Jewish Press)
"Welcome to Haifa, Mr. and Mrs. Corrie . . . Now Haifa is about to become the victim of yet another indignity. It is to be the scene for a legal assault by the parents of Rachel Corrie.
Rachel Corrie, you may recall, was a clueless American-flag-burning undergraduate from Evergreen State College in Washington."
(full story)
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/42751/
See how easy that is kidz? ISRAEL IS ALWAYS THE VICIM!!
See how this mean ol' Palestinian Water Supply victimizes these poor Israeli "settlers" and soldiers that must defend themselves with bags of cement . . . ;-)
(link to video - approx. 1 minute)
"Israeli Settlers pouring cement into spring"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZKjdDaZhwc&feature=player_embedded
But, never fear poor, poor, Israel . . . Joe "It's Good To Be Home" Biden is on the job!!!
(link to video clip - approx. 2 minutes)
"YES, MASSA! I'ze a Good Goy!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCdcaJFrsU
Zio-Joe will protect you from being "victimized" by the likes of Rachel Corrie . . . that mean ol' Justice Richard Goldstone . . . and those "crazy" 9-11 Truthers . . .
. . . and pretty much everyone else on the planet because they are ALL anti-Semites if they won't accept that ISRAEL IS ALWAYS THE VICTIM!!!
. . . it's our "special bond" . . . ;-)
. . . sez so in The Talmud . . .
(link to video clip - approx. 2 minutes)
"Talmud Teaching"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaWn-ZBDpNg&feature=player_embedded
So, hand over your kidz for "education" all you Goy parents . . .
(clipped headline and article from UK Daily Mail)
"Primary schoolchildren in tears after they are told they will be removed from families as part of Holocaust 'game' - The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told they were being sent away or might end up in an orphanage.
The ordeal was meant to give the youngsters at the Lanarkshire school an insight into the horrors faced by Jewish children during World War II."
(full story)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256984/Primary-schoolchildren-t...
Break those goy kidz in early . . . so that "Our Special Friend" won't be "victimized" by any more Rachel Corries . . .
"Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?"
- "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" by Pete Seeger
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