Rachel Corrie’s murder (Joseph Smith)
Richard Silverstein:
An Israeli court ruled in the past hour or so that neither the State nor the IDF is responsible for the death of Rachel Corrie. In fact, the judge claims that she herself was responsible. This is a case brought by Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, in which they sought damages from the Israeli State for the negligence of the army in killing her when a bulldozer ran her over as she was protecting a home in Gaza from demolition.
Here is but one eyewitness report of what happened:
“She was standing on top of a pile of earth,” fellow activist and eyewitness Richard Purssell, from Brighton, said at the time. “The driver cannot have failed to see her. As the blade pushed the pile, the earth rose up. Rachel slid down the pile. It looks as if her foot got caught. The driver didn’t slow down; he just ran over her. Then he reversed the bulldozer back over her again.”
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