The ever seeping animosity to the Jews into the widespread social fabric of the world, is currently even treated as a fad by blind followers .. errr, emotionally incited lot, are deemed ending as helpless bigots, helpless in their misdirected passion. Rachel Corrie was one of them, a sorry hap of youth who fell into wrong sentiments. So sad indeed for this accident, taking her life.

Thank you for this report. Just another fact I can quote to some of my leftist friends

We should judge without partiality whether: Jewish or American, Palestinian or Jew. - Deut.1:16-17; 16:18-20. In the first picture there are two bulldozers. The bulldozer with the rust spot is to the back left of the first photo, easily identifiable. This asserts that the operator of the second bulldozer had a window of elapsed time to easily spot the protestors in the dist. Please note the dist. and the open unobstructed field to Carrie and the other protestor. Also note that the since the first bulldozer came in almost direct contact, with Carrie. Upon the first picture, the first operator should have reported, the obvious danger and implications. If he did and nothing was done, it's negligence, and if he didn't negligence still applies. Why wouldn't the the first operator notify the bulldozer behind him about the possible bodily obstruction, or protestors oncoming for avoidance? Next, we have Carrie at first wearing the red safety vest in the first picture per the first bulldozer encounter. Then per the second she has removed this reflective safety vest. So we should inquire of her intentions. But we can't lose sight of where she and the fellow protestor are crouching. They are in the middle of the tread route in the safest place of the bulldozer where it presses dirt up and not down. So they weren't crouching literally in the tread wear path which would be deadly. They could still be in harm by the blade. The pictures don't provide a clear ability to measure blade size to ensure the articles suggested differences there. Why weren't the protestors removed by military police or civilian police? Why weren't they pushed back to a safe distance? Take into consideration a real non violent protest demands a challenge physical and mental that endangers those protesting. It does this while seriously invoking conscientious: insight, thought, and interaction to the: principles, laws or persons being protested against.

Yashar koach on pursuing the networks! And your conclusion is spot on. P.S. Hello from a former Netzach Yisrael dormer!

I feel sorry for the Corrie's for this tragic event. If Rachel loved those PALs so much, she should have protested from that side of the map and be "safe". Let's face it, she was used by these terrosists as human shield same as they use their own women and children. We have enough troubles from those terrorists , we do not need rachels and flotillas entering our borders! What we need are journalists with high moral values to start reporting the truth !

Two words for this kind of stuff in the Holy Land....Tiananmen square.

My husband owns a Backhoe and has worked on Bulldozers and believe me there are "blind" spots just as cars have that the operators can't see around and only a fool would stand close to one of these machines while they are in motion.

Israel should never allowed this kind of people to enter our country,Corrie positioned herself in a danger zone regardles warning of the law enforcement, so something was very worng with her indeed may be?!death wish.

I know that many media outlets have engaged in anti-Israel propaganda for decades. This year I've been watching the anti-Syria propaganda with much interest (and taken considerable pride in shutting some of them down). The international populace is so susceptible to believing whatever they're told, and the curse of democracy is the arrogance of the presumptuous, the uninformed and the misguided. I would personally like to see a separate religiously based institution that merely monitors the performance of government and media and "fills in the gaps in understanding" for the common folk that don't have the time to do the research themselves. I'm not saying that religious people should govern like in Iran, but I trust a religious institution to watch my back more than a congress or senate or anyone who actually benefits monetarily from the power of their office. This institution should have the 23 most respected Rabbis... oh you know where I'm going with this. Wishing you all a happy and safe new year (I know it's a bit early, but I'm in a festive mood).

While Corrie's death was an accident, the fact remains that by making herself a human shield in a clearly designated war zone, she became a combatant. The actions of nations must not be held hostage to the whims of activists for causes good or as bad as the ISM's. Activists must not be allowed to get away with outrageous and illegal behaviours and then run snivelling to civil rights and law enforcement bodies whining that they were not treated with kid-gloves and with respect. Further, the fact that Corrie and her fellow ISMers are from Western nations, should not lead them into arrogantly assuming that they are free to display their hate and contempt for the Jewish state.

once again the media is searching for a way to make Israel the villains of the world Corrie chose what she wanted to do and if her parents were so concerned and did not hate us so much, they should have tried to keep her home and out of harm's way

Israeli kids go back to school safely with fortified building to protect against Gaza rockets. www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-kids-go-back-to-school-safely-with-fortified-building-to-protect-against-gaza-rockets/2012/08/27/25a43090-f074-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_story.html

To the comment that we should not forget that she is not a terrorist: She SUPPORTED terrorism. She protested bulldozing the terrorist tunnels. Something is very wrong with her- what did she want? That the terrorists should keep killing israelis? Sorry but very hard to feel bad for her.

If you see her here, burning an improvised American Flag http://5mfi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rachel_corrie2.jpg You can see that she is not a rational, sane person. Her parents will continue to blame everyone but themselves.

We are in exile, friends. Until Hashem brings the final redemption we, including those of us living in Eretz Yisroel, are in exile, and we will be subject to the bias against us in the news media until then. I'd like to point out that Foxnews, which generally promotes itself as a friend of the Jewish people and of Israel, set the word "accident" off in quotes, just like the known anti-Israel CNN. How many of these incidents have to happen before we all wake up and realize that our only friend in Hashem, and that hoping for some improvement in media reporting or recognition of Jewish concerns isn't going to get us anywhere!?

the Corrie family are receiving world attention because of the Rachel Corrie Industry. they are visiting the world and are being subsidised a good deal by those making money out of the Rachel Corrie Industry plc

You get shot when you put yourself in the line of fire. She did it to herself.

Lets not lose the plot here. She was a 3rd party accidentally killed by a bulldozer. She wasn't a terrorist, just a person trying to stop a bulldozer from destroying houses at Gaza. My verdict is her comrades should have cautioned her to be careful. I didn't see the footage but copied the following from "The Independent" .(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/i-saw-israeli-bulldozer-kill-rachel-corrie-1919464.html). "She is looking into the cab of the bulldozer," Mr Purssell recounted. "The bulldozer continues to move forward. Rachel turns to begin coming back down the slope ... As she nears the bottom of the pile, something happened to cause her to fall forward. The bulldozer continues to move forward and Rachel disappeared from view. The bulldozer moves forward approximately another four metres before it stops." Mr Purssell, who works as a landscape gardener in the UK, said that before the bulldozer came to a stop, other activists started running towards her – as he himself did a few seconds later." The bulldozer has armored glass on the cab, I doubt the driver would have heard anything in his cab. She was standing on top of the earth then on the ground and the bulldozer blades were 8' in height.

She as an adult was therefore responsible for her activitism against the government who happened to demolish an illigal house. What the hell would a young girl be doing there in the back of a buldozer if not brainwashed? She did it to herself and who sent her there are the responsible.

Jon, I think that you lost the plot. The bulldozer was filling in tunnels which were being used to bring in weapons. In fact, if you look at the pictures, there are no signs of houses nor of rubble. So where are the houses that you, and the Palestinians, claim to have destroyed? Propaganda that so many want to believe or deliberate misunderstanding?

She killed herself. How dumb can a person be to climb into a hole where a bulldozer is being driven around.

Will Edwards states that SHE did not see the bull dozer, yet he is saying the person in the dozer SAW her. How is this possible? She had no business being there to start with.

If what you reported is true that she hid from the bulldozer then it was not an accidental death but suicide.

Questions to Mr. and Mrs. Corrie: just where on earth were you when your daughter put herself in harm's way? Did you educate your daughter to defend the murderers of innocent children? Have you the slightest idea of what the Arab terrorist organizations are up to? Wasn't 9/11 enough for you, that you allowed your daughter to associate with those people? Mr. and Mrs. Corrie, even if a child is 60 years old, a 90 year old parent will never advise her to put herself in harm's way as your daughter did. Your daughter had much better chances for helping the Arabs in much more constructive ways. Israel is at war with the Arabs, shots need to be fired to understand this. Unfortunately, in wars people die and that's what happened.

Sorry for the parents and the family, but she had been warned that in a war zone no civilians are allowed, if they choose to be there, then they should be ready to assume the consequences. Why these persons never choose to go to places where they can safely protest? Sudan, Siria, Irak, Afganistan...

Invariably, when many reporters from many news organizations report on something, accuracy will vary. In this case, judging by the article and reader response, NPR got it right (of course radio shows no pictures) and BBC, Reuters, Jerusalem Post and Yediot Acharonot used a misleading photograph out of context. What did the vast mass of news organizations, including most of the biggest -- AP, AFP, NY Times, Washington Post and other broadcast networks -- do? We aren't told here, but unless it is very clear that most major news reports deliberately used used the wrong photo out of context, it is wrong by any moral or ethical standards to tar "the media" generally for the sins of a few who were likely more sloppy than overtly biased. Criticize wrongdoers? Of course. Blame all media? It's like blaming all Jews for the financial wrongdoing of Michael Milken and Bernie Madoff.

Thank you for making the truth known.

When will people come to realise that fighting for a cause that is basically none of their business and futile can lead to death and maiming.It is not a game you can't call time out grow up and leave well alone

The mendacity of media reporting is fully demonstrated by the B.B.C. Who in their first report made mention of the houses being razed as they were suspected of harbouring terrorists, in subsequent reports this was omitted. I wonder why?

What video footage is Will Edwards referring to. I have read a lot about this and if there is one thing everyone agrees about it is that there were no photos taken during the actual incident. Plus which the video would have to have been taken from inside the bulldozer to prove that the driver could not see her.

Thankyou for imformation here. Yes i was sad to hear about this death but as you say the `truth will out`. Sad that the event happened but even more sad that politically by the enemies of truth will never admit it as it gives them amunition even if untrue.

from the zionist side: whether the verdict finds for the idf or for the corries, the verdict is a fair reading by an impartial jurist. from the corrie side: if the verdict finds for the corries, vindication and proof positive that the state of israel murders innocents. if the verdict finds for the idf, further proof of the corrupt society that killed their daughter. there's no way to win such a case. still, it is a rare place where such a case can be brought and adjudicated openly and impartially. of course, that's almost certainly not the perspective of the corries. their loss is real. i pray they find peace.

You may agree or disagree, but the court verdict was more balanced than any of the dialogue here. The court of the State of Israel recognized a tragedy, but found it was not caused by the driver's negligence. Whether Rachel Corrie's beliefs are justified or not, whether she should have stayed home or not been in an area of conflict is not the point. The point is that the court, with all the evidence and all the footage, found that her tragic, yes tragic death was accidental. The debate should end.

The first picture with the buldozer was also run in Yediot Ahronot today when reporting on the verdict.

Soo what if in Yediot are some idiot journalists..The are not officials and judges.

Anyone who has seen the raw video footage,as I have, knows without hesitaton or doubt this was an intentional act. It was a very tense and emotional situaton and she was taking a side considered loathe by any Israeli Jew. She felt she was right and so did the young man who killed her by running over her. Perhaps he thougtht she would simply get out of the way in a dangerous game of chicken, but in all the noise and confusion she never saw the bulldozer as it ran over her and killed her. The fact that Israel continues its refusal to accept reality and learn from it is possibly a bigger tragedy. In Judaism all life is sacred. How callouses have we become to feel it justifable to kill a misguided, probably, but innocent young woman only standing up for her beliefs in a non-violent way. This one is on us. Learn from it and move on.

She was a human shield for terrorists. Maybe she didn't appreciate what that meant or maybe she was happy to die just for the bad press it would generate. The D9 has a top speed of 7 mph, an armoured one even less and with the blade down less still. How much noise and confusion was there that she didn't see it coming?

I choose to believe an Israeli court over a misinformed view such as yours anyday In addition, your quote "taking a side" shows significant ignorance. This was a hot war, in a war zone, she took the side of people who slit babies throats. She was a terrorist soldier. She died on the battlefield. The world is now a better place. Its you who are callous!

With protestors in the area -greater caution should have been taken. More reason for a two state solution.

one could easily think the bulldozer driver intentionally ran her over and claimed he didn't see her, but this is just speculation, and let's face it, as everyone said this was a war zone and she was not supposed to be there and she put herself at risk so you suffer the consequences of any accidents that may occur. And as far as a 2 state solution, for those who are dreamers, there ws a 2 state solution after 1948, until 1967, and the Arabs had gaza, east Jerusalem or the rest of the entire west bank, they had it all to themselves and they threw it away in favor of "tryng" to defeat the israelis, sorry folks, to late to try this again!

J. Apicella, When do you think the Palestinians will come to agree on a two state solution? A state that will refrain from shooting rockets into civilian areas?

Protesters are not allowed in the area -- it was/is a military zone that is off limits to all non military personnel. She was an idiot for putting herself in danger. How in the hell is that a reason for a 2 state solution? That makes no sense at all whatsoever.

On the contrary, these one-sided 'peace activists' should not have been in the area, and Israel owed them nothing! As for the 'two state solution', it's been plain for some considerable time that these Arabs pay only lip service to that idea, since they have blatantly declared that they would use their part of such a solution as a stepping stone for the 'liberation' of all 'Palestine'. Anyway, all of the territory between the Jordan river and the sea is the Land of Israel. Also, take a look at the still legally binding 1922 'Mandate for Palestine'!

Pray tell, can you please share the raw video footage so all of us can be so informed as you? Yeah, I know, you don't know how to find it, and you're the only one who saw it. Right. Life is precious - except when it comes to clearing out tunnels destined to murder more Jews.

I find it hard to believe that she didn't see or hear the bulldozer when she was there holding a loudspeaker. She was there on her own will, by her own choice. Please name any other country in the world that will allow so-called activists to enter her territory and do all sorts of activities against it! Israel accepts reality. She doesn't want to be at war. For the last six decades she's always offered to live in peace with her neighbors. Israel went so far so as to offer parts of its capital city to the Arabs, even the Temple Mount which as you know, is sacred for the Jews. The Arabs are the ones who must accept the reality, the very fact that Israel exists. She wasn't misguided or innocent. She was a full-fledged activist. She must have known, as do other activists, that their activities will very likely lead them to physical fights and even loss of life. That is why most activists yell and scream but seldom do more than that. In Israel's case, anti-Israeli activists know full well that IDF will always limit the strength and scope when defending the country when civilians (enemy civilians) are involved.

Mr Edwards: For the record I hold certification as a wildland firefighter up to incident commander for small (Up to 20 acres or so) incidents, as well as having been an engine boss on much larger fires. One of the classes we have to take is on fighting fire when dozers are in use. Guess what: if you sit in the cab of a dozer you can't see much of anything. The dozer operator picks a line and moves dirt. You, the firefighter on foot, are responsible to stay out of the way. It is that simple. And she didn't see or hear a D8 or D9 Cat? You have to be out of your mind. You can feel the ground shaking when a D8 or D9 is pushing earth. Rachel Corrie was just a stupid Jew Hating Leftist Christian who got in the way of a Cat and got run over. She no doubt believed that she was defending innocent people in Hamas-stan too. Just like all the SS members believed the filth Goebals and Co. put out. I feel sorry for the guy running the Cat.

This was a young woman who was defending terrorists and the smuggling of their weapons used to kill Jews, including young children. Her "defense" included sitting in front of a moving bulldozer in a war zone. In addition, you can find pictures of Ms. Corrie, her face filled with hate, as she burns the American flag with Palestinian school children.

Innocent people do not give aid and comfort to terrorists. Her parents' behavior, which they themselves admit is calculated to besmirch Israel's name as much as possible, obviously rubbed off on their daughter.

I would like to have seen this essay contextualize the second photo, which appears here with no caption and does not appear in the NBC news story for which a link is provided: What is the provenance of that second photo? And How and where was it originally presented vis-a-vis the first?

Go to another country, put yourself in harm's way to protest that country, and expect not to get hurt when you join the terrorist agenda? More is the shame, however, that she opposed G-d's choice of the inheritor of the land. She didn't just defy Israel - she defied G-d. The judge found correctly.

Please don't play the G-d card. G-d will get us all killed. Everyone in ME is playing the G-d card. Even me. I can not fight a war as G-d told me and I believe I cannot kill.

Don't hold your breath....

This was no tragedy - for whatever misguided reason Ms Corrie allied herself to the "Palestinian Cause" she has paid the price. This was not a kids game of "hide and seek" in the park but a warzone situation whereby Israel was attempting to seal off tunnels.........Ms Corrie chose to put herself in this situation despite warnings from several sources. The dozer driver and his commanding officer should never have even been interrogated following this incident - Ms Corrie's irresponsible action no different from that of an armed terrorist shot by the IDF - All parents love their children - the Corries no exception- and of course they grieve - but their daughter chose to go down this this radical path - Sorry Mum and Dad but she played with fanatical terrorists and paid the ultimate penalty - do the terrorists care - not one bit - they simply wanted the media exposure her US passport presented them with.... In situations like this one has to question just why Israel deems it necessary to conduct public investigations - the resultant backlash, manipulated by the traditionally pro-Palestinian media only further discredits the State. Plaudits to the court decision, a decision that should never have been necessary in the first place.......

to write that t"his was no tragedy" and comparing a non violent protester to"an armed terrorist" is beyond foolish. No Israeli Court would agree with those statements. They ruled the IDF was not responsible for her death as the driver did not see her.It was ruled an accident.If one sees an armed terrorist one tries to kill him.One does not claim it was a tragic accident

You can plainly see that the window on the second Dozier is a lot smaller than the one with Rachel & the megaphone. The blade is wider, and the tower area is taller in the second one, also you can see that the second one is newer than the first one. The news will always find fault with Israel, no matter how right that Israel is. It's a sad circumstance, but she had no business being out there. Who in their right mind would want to protect anyone wanting to dig tunnels, so that they could smuggle guns in to kill innocent people? It is beyond me as to why everyone can not leave Israel alone. I don't understand this mindset of hatred, God did not create us for this. It seems that the longer that man is allowed to exist in this fallen state we 're in the worse we get. How I ,long for the day when my Saviour makes all things new. I feel bad for her family, but as far as I can see, she brought this upon herself. Disobedience breeds consequences.

As I recall the original photo, there was a large dirt pile in front of where Corie was standing...and it would have been impossible to have seen her...she was essentially showing off prowess as an American supporting the Palestinian's, in an area she didn't belong in. We need to continue exposing the lies in the media. Remember the Times in 10/2/2000 front page photo of, "An Israeil officer grabs a Palestinian youth during a clash".A boxed caption states: Shocking Image the sight of a boy caught in a cross-fire sickens both Israeli's and Palestinians." and leads one to believe Israeli's are cruel and vengeful. As it turns out, the boy was a Jewish American student being Rescued by the Israeli, from an arab mob! His name is Tuvia Grossman.

Amazing! I wish that could be front page news!

It's not only a different bulldozer, it's a different piece of ground, I think. Where's the megaphone ? What a horrible death-but anyone should know that a bulldozer driver probably couldn't stop once he'd hit someone, even if he knew he had, and given the bumpy ride that I imagine he'd be having, he probably wouldn't know that he HAD hit someone. And if he DID know, it'd be too late. I mean, it's not like a car that can swerve. The poor girl died an unnecessary, horrible death and the unlucky driver will have been traumatised for life. Why WOULD the driver deliberately go on ?

The CSM now identifies the bulldozer as getting ready to demolish a Physician's house -- a detail missing in their original story: "Peace activist Rachel Corrie, shown here at the Burning Man festival in September 2002, died March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home."

I am sick and tired of the bias reporting of the arab/palestinian agenda. Bloodmongers have called for the destruction of Israel and all we hear about is the stupidity of some American girl protesting and is killed... How rediculous. I'm sorry she died. But No one seems to care if rockets are fired from arab/palestinian organizations on unsuspecting civilians, (women and children), I will lump them all in the same category, uninformed, racist, terrorists. Israel is not the bad guys in all this. Their very existence is being threatned daily with the build up of the iranian nuclear program and rocket attacks that occur frequently. In view of a military perspective arabs in general forfitted rights to this area as they on more than one occassion tried to extinguish the Jewish State. Give it up man and get land from your arab neighbors... US Army (Retired) BAN

your comments are right on target. she had no business being there. As the Prime Minister said israel is not the problem.

This is finally over..Good!..It was an accident and nothing more...This Anarchist/Arabist/Leftist should have stayed home and protested there.

Corrie's parents are now taking their "case" to the Israeli Supreme Court. We can only hope that our hard left Supreme Court judges let the facts speak for themselves.

This morning on NPR News Radio, the Commentator reported on this story, stating that Rachel Corrie had been positioned between the bulldozer and an Arab house that she was trying to prevent from being destroyed. The Commentator then asked Mark Regev, spokesman for P.M. Benyamin Netanyahu, to comment on the Court's verdict. Regev began by stating that he must make one correction in what had been stated earlier. Rachel Corrie had positioned herself in a closed military zone. THERE WAS NO ARAB HOUSE that she was supposedly defending. In addition, two expert witnesses had been called during the trial - one who had testified for the Corrie Family and one who was called by the defense. Both expert witnesses AGREED that it was IMPOSSIBLE for the driver of the tractor to have seen Rachel Corrie out of his little window. She was totally out of his view. As is evident to all - the leftist media is not interested in reporting the truth where Israel is concerned. The leftist media does not hesitate to lie and to distort the truth in order to achieve their goal - which is denigrating and besmirching Israel..

If Rachel Corrie would be your daughter, you would be distraught by this unfair judgment. It is highly unprofessional that the driver had limited vision, as he states. Be honest and accept your responsability.

I would be saddled with guilt that I did not ensure that my child possessed the common sense to not wander into a dangerous military zone, despite her (false) convictions, and grief that the loss of my child's life for a fabricated cause is being exploited, to this day, by those she thought she was "defending,". How incredibly sad,

This isn't in the middle of town! - this is a war zone!! Would you walk into a construction zone and hide infront of a bulldozer? Let alone in a trench in the middle of a place where the bulldozers were not expecting people, in closed military area, with entry forbidden to civilians!!!!???? She could have just as easily been killed by gunfire. If a women runs into the highway are you going to point fingers at the drivers? Or wonder what on earth she was doing on a dangerous highway with the likely chance of being killed? That does not take away from the tragedy of her family but the person responsible is the person who put herself in danger.

I am a mother, and my children sometimes do stupid things which get them hurt. I would not blame the driver of a car if, G-d forbid, my child dashed into the street. I would be horrified, and perhaps blame myself for not watching the child better or giving them enough warning about putting themselves in harm's way. A mother whose child crawled in front of a bull dozer in a war zone would have to wonder why her child did such a misguided, stupid thing, but it's nto the fault of the bull dozer driver. People need to accept responsibility for their actions, it's a tragedy but it was her own doing, same as if she dashed into traffic or jumped of a building.

I would be appalled to have raised a daughter who would not only burn the American flag but defend terrorists. I would have done my very best to correct the girl's moral compass and keep her out of war zones.

... I would have never allowed her to go to a war zone. I would have never allowed here to associate herself with fanatics of any sort. I would have taught her from very early on, not to put herself in harm's way. I would have taught her to love other like she'd love herself. I would have taught her to accept the consequences of her actions, both good and bad. I would have taught her to work hard producing something that would benefit others, and not to go yell at someone else with a loudspeaker in a war zone. If Rachel Corrie had been my daughter, I would have taught her to respect the ideas of others, even if she opposed them. If Rachel Corrie had been my daughter, I wouldn't have taught her to hate others; I wouldn't have taught her to meddle in someone else's affairs. I wouldn't have let her to be used by others for their own ends.

This morning on Buffalo radio classical news station (WNED) at 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM, the BBC news (which is always used by the radio station) presented, as first piece of news, the court's verdict in such a way as to cast doubt on the honesty of the Israeli court, while re-hashing the blood lible.

Dear Rabbi Simmons, I have read horrible things that have been written about Rachel Corrie as well as the state of Israel as it relates to her death by bulldozer in Rafah in March 2003. As it happens, I had just written an article about the International Solidarity Movement and interviewed a number of its members in the weeks preceding Rachel Corries death. In its aftermath I spoke to ISM members that were there and later to Cynthia Corrie as well as to the Pharmacist whose house she was protecting; Dr. Samir Nasrallah. I was not a first hand witness and cannot speak for the bulldozer driver. I do know that during that period Israel had more violent confrontations with members of the ISM in Gaza and Jenin in April and Brian Avery was shot in the face and Tom Hurdall was shot and killed. Avery accepted a monetary settlement from the State of Israel and Hurdall's family pursued a trial in which Taysir Hayb, the Israeli sniper was found guilty of manslaughter. I have considerable trouble squaring the goals of the ISM with the welfare of its international volunteers. Interestingly, the photo accompanying the Jerusalem Post's story today is the one by Reuters showing Rachel Corrie with a bullhorn. Larry Snider

Do you think that the Arabs (so-called Palestinians) would offer a monetary settlement to the families whose members they've killed? Taysir Hayb was found guilty of manslaughter, do you think that an Arab court would find guilty of that crime the terrorists that have killed Jews? If a Jewish orphan sues Hamas or Hizbollah for the death of her parents, would she be able to promote a fair trial, and maybe get a conviction?

Perhaps this article should be sent to all the media, pointing out 1) the difference in bulldozers and 2) that the photo with the megaphone was taken hours before the other photo. This won't change the minds of the bigoted, but for the record, it should be be done.

Rachel Corrie was not as you so condescendingly write hanging out "trying her hand at pro-Palestinian activism" but trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from destroying a home of Palestinians which is daily practice as if all Palestinians are terrorists and we Jews are the eternal victim. Lying to ourselves we beat our fists on our chests next month. Wake up, you fools who condone an occupational power hell-bent on expelling both native populations: Bedouins and Palestinians. Why are you so blind? And complicit? You want to lose the Land again? Read Nevi'im. Your hatred runs through your brains and seems to have both devoured your thinking, logic and sense of justice and honesty. All for Jewish supremacy. Read if you dare what really perspired in 1948 and listen and see what happens daily in the occupied territories.

when I beat my chest next month, I will pray for you, the Jew without any faith, who's scared of our enemies and turns that fear into a hatred of her own people and homeland.

These homes housed not only people but tunnels used to smuggle weapons to kill Israeli women, children and men. Would you have a differnent perspective if one of the weapons smuggled in through these very tunnels was g-d forbid the cause of a family members death? Israel has the most ethical army in the world. Do a little homework will you? The army targets terrorists. Have you ever been in Israel? Let alone know anything about it or it's army? You have a lot of fact finding to do.

I would love to know your sources for what really "perspired" (sic) in 1948. Although I'm willing to bet I can guess. Perhaps, though, you should consult a few different sources. There's Martin Gilbert's excellent "Israel". Efraim Karsh has tackled the whole "ethnic cleansing" blood libel in "Palestine Betrayed". Start with those, and then let's see who's perspiring.

I can answer that: Ben Gurion read aloud the Declaration of Independence and offered to live in peace with Israel's neighbors. They didn't agree with Mr. Ben Gurion and attacked. As a result, many Arabs fled Israel and some stayed. The latter progressed and have relatively good lives in Israel. Their women can vote and be voted. They can practice their religion peacefully. They have good healthcare.

If anyone with any God sense still has any faith in the mainstream media, you need to do some serious soul searching. They are a propaganda arm of the DNC who care no more for the truth than did Joseph Goebbels! Someone should get this in the hands of a national (conservative) talk show host.