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March 16, 2004
A PROPER YAHRETZEIT EULOGY
One year ago, Rachel Corrie crouched in front of an Israeli bulldozer and was crushed to death. Ruhama Shattan, an Israeli writer, delivers a proper memorial:
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.
Ouch. But not nearly enough.
Posted by Dr. Manhattan at 3:51 PM | Permalink
Comments
What happened to Corrie was sad. . . she was probably just a deluded idealist who just wanted to make a better world - but then, so were some of the Hitler Youth. The problem is, she signed on with the forces of wanton slaughter.
Posted by: Crank | March 16, 2004 9:57 PM
Oh, and in remembering Corrie, it may also be worth remembering (as I intend to on my own blog) another anniversary coming up in ten days.
Posted by: Crank | March 16, 2004 10:01 PM