Cute reading

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:12 pm

A couple of cute stories that didn't make the world media so interested.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/404939.html

If the next one had been "successful" aand chemical tanks had been hit. we'd be talking death on a massive scale.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/405066.html

Ho hum! I'm off to work now.

FC

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:18 pm

yep. *sigh* at the world media and its extreme friendliness to the Palestinian cause. When Rachel Corrie is treated like a "martyr" for standing in front of a bulldozer to stop it from closing down those tunnels... *sigh*

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:18 pm

i saw the 2nd one on the news.

Drakona · Post by **Drakona** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:41 pm

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:49 pm

I read the one about the 10 year old kid on Drudge I think.

bash · Post by **bash** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:05 am

Where is the Palestinian *leadership* while these groups carry out such heinous acts? Most likely on the other end of the cellphone.

It's tough to stomach some of these terrorist groups accusing the West/Israel of *killing our children* when they themselves exploit children in this manner.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:12 am

http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004796

yeah, my thoughts exactly. Full text:

A Tribute to Rachel Corrie
Thanks for showing us what "peace" really means.

BY RUHAMA SHATTAN
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST

(Editor's note: On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie died in a bulldozer accident in the Gaza town of Rafah.)

Today is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending.

Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom--oops, death--have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and her friend in the February 22, 2004 bombing) and leaving hundreds more widows, orphans and bereaved parents.

On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing Palestinian children how to despise America as she snarled, burned an American flag, and led them in chanting slogans, and as she gave "evidence" at a Young Palestinian Parliament mock trial finding President Bush guilty of crimes against humanity.

Perhaps her help in fanning the flames of violent anti-American sentiment led to the October 2003 bombing of the Fulbright delegation to Gaza to interview scholarship candidates, killing three. There will be no new crop of Palestinian Fulbright scholars this fall.

On the first anniversary of her death, I wanted to thank Rachel Corrie for providing her organization, the Palestinian-sponsored International Solidarity Movement, with the opportunity to release a manipulated photo sequence "showing" an Israeli military bulldozer deliberately crushing her. (I would also like to thank the Associated Press and the Christian Science Monitor for taking up the baton and immortalizing this cynical ISM stunt.)

On the first anniversary of her death, I want to thank Rachel Corrie for showing the way to all those who seek peace in the Middle East. Unfortunately, Corrie's peace, as anyone familiar with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah organizations that she defended with her life knows--or as anyone familiar with the weekly rants of the Friday preachers in the Palestinian mosques is aware--means not peaceful coexistence but the elimination of the state of Israel, and death to those they call "the usurping Jews, the sons of apes and pigs."

Thank you, Rachel Corrie, of Evergreen State University, where the profs wear khakis and kaffiyehs at graduation ceremonies, for showing us what peace really means.