Slain American Peace Activist Rachel Corrie
Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall
Two years ago today, March 16, 2003, according to the sworn affidavits of seven eyewitness, American peace activist Rachel Corrie was murdered in the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah by members of the Israeli Defense Forces. Subsequently, the corporate-controlled, right-wing media and governments of both the United States and Israel have attempted to ignore, distort, suppress and ultimately whitewash essentially all news of this fact. This morning the state of Israel and the IDF were put on notice by the family of Rachel Corrie that they are going to be forced to answer for the crime.
This case is an international tinderbox waiting to explode and the state of Israel and its increasingly isolated and discredited amen corner in the United States know it. It is so dangerous, in fact, that Rachel Corrie -by all accounts an extraordinarily humane and compassionate young woman- has been slandered, demonized and derided as has perhaps no other victim of such a grotesque injustice in all of American history. With every new act of slander the fundamental injustice is compounded.
I sincerely and deeply implore every reader of DailyKos who is not in the service of the right-wing government of Israel or its choir in the United States to do whatever you can to help support the Corrie family in their ongoing struggle for justice.
Rachel Corrie Memorial Site
On a related note: Amnesty International Calls on Condoleezza Rice to Support Independent Investigation