Haifa – The US ambassador to Israel has told the family of Rachel Corrie, American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed in Gaza in 2003, that the US government remains dissatisfied with the Israeli army’s decision to close its official investigation into the incident, The Guardian reported on Friday.
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Dan Shapiro told the Corries that the government did not believe the Israeli military investigation had been “thorough, credible and transparent”, as had been promised by Israel.
The investigation concluded that Corrie’s death was an accident and that she had endangered herself by entering a combat zone.
In 2005 Corrie’s family filed a civil suit in the Haifa district court against the Israeli government over the incident. A verdict is expected on Tuesday.
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Well, that’s what happens when you stand in front of a bulldozer!
Stupid girl, don’t enter a war zone.
2 different bulldozers in the pictures, one red, one blue. So obviously this is a fake.
it’s the same bulldozer, the hatch in the 2nd photo is pulled up.
I’ll bet the Palis killed her to make headlines.
Actually the background is completely different so clearly not the same time. The first pic has no buildings in the landscape. The second one has what appear to be two buildings.
Notwithstanding the fact that I am frequently condemned as being “a liberal” by other correspondents here on VIN (the screen name above is a “one off”) I must whole-heartedly agree with the first three comments published above.
Israel is a democracy (well, more or less) and anyone is entitled to express his or her opinions to their heart’s content – as long as those thoughts are not seditious.
The late Miss Corrie was allowed to do just that. The Israeli government allowed her to enter Israel, even though it knew of her radical politics. It then permitted her to proceed to the West Bank, to stay with and to sympathize with her Palestinian friends. The Israeli authorities let her demonstrate to make her political point.
Where she went wrong was to make her point in the middle of the traffic. She knew exactly what she was doing. She saw the bulldozer approaching and decided, then and there, that she would make herself a martyr for the Palestinian cause.
Bad career move.
[OK, it’s time to become a bleeding heart liberal again!]
this is what sould happen to all arab lover anti semite,
Wow, some friends the Palis were. They weren’t even out there cheering her on.
Oh come on, how was she supposed to know that choosing to stand in front of a moving bulldozer could end badly. Even Tank Man’s friends in Tiananmen Square hauled him away from the scene (after he climbed up on the tank, perhaps to thank the driver for not running over him).
Israel should be suing the estate of Corrie for standing in the way of a bulldozer and causing all this needless waste of time and money on inquries and the like.
The first picture is obviously from a time when she was still alive protesting. Obviously it isn’t a picture of her and the bulldozer she stepped in front of. It’s a different time.
I know let us send the investigation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Such fair minded countries as Cuba and Iran will be able to investigate what the Israeli’s did and come up with a fair conclusion. The United States is upset at the closing of an investigation of a person who peacefully sat infront of a moving tractor.
The sarcasm is not to good, but it certainly is meant.
It’s the US govt as represented by its ambassador that seems to have the credibility problem. This administration is trusted by neither the Arabs nor the Israelis. A new peace broker needs to emerge.
This was a very tragic incident. A similar incident happened in 1964, in Cleveland, Ohio at a civil rights protest, whereby a clergyman laid down in front of some construction equipment (there was a protest at a building site for not hiring enough minority construction workers), and he was also accidentally crushed to death, by some construction equipment.