How Rachel Corrie really died (Hint: Not protecting a house)
On March 16, 2003, ISM 'activist' Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli D9 bulldozer in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Rafah is in the Philadelphi Corridor in the map at left, along the border between Gaza and Egypt. You may recall that it's where the border between Gaza and Egypt was breached just a few weeks ago. At the time, the ISM claimed that Corrie was protecting a 'Palestinian' house:Witnesses said Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, was trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp when she was run over. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator.In a series of three videos, each running approximately nine minutes, Becky Johnson and Lee Kaplan debunk the myth that Corrie was protecting a house. In fact, as Smooth Stone points out and as you will see in the video below, Corrie was standing in a trench where she could not be seen, protecting an entrance to a weapons tunnel.
Corrie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. Joseph Smith,21, of Kansas City Missouri, who was with Corrie at the site, said the driver of the bulldozer, an IDF soldier, could clearly see Corrie as she sat in front of the machine.
Contrary to Smith's report, IDF Capt. Jacob Dallal of the IDF Spoksewoman's Office said Corrie's death was an accident. The US State Department had no immediate comment.
Actual video footage from the Israeli Defense Forces show the real circumstances under which the terrorist loving anarchist died: knee-deep in a trench in the middle of dirt in an open dirt field. The left arrow on the photo below points to the tractor, the right arrow shows the kneeling Rachel Corrie. To see the live action footage moments before Rachel Corrie's accidental death, go to the Part 2 video [which I am embedding below. CiJ], approx 49 seconds into the video:
I actually watched all three parts of this video and for those of you who are inclined to do so, it is well worth the time. But what I noticed was that Video # 1 had the most views, Video # 2 had 40% less and Video # 3 had 50% less than that. Video # 2 is - in my humble opinion - the most significant video. So I am embedding video # 2 below. After it is finished, I will give you links to Videos 1 and 3. I also urge you to go to Smooth Stone's site, because he shows how the ISM used fauxtography™ to create the image of Corrie standing in front of a house rather than being in the trench where she really was.
Video # 1 may be found here. Video # 3 may be found here.
For those of you who watch it, you will note that at the end of Video # 3, Lee Kaplan states his belief that the 'Palestinian' doctors who treated Corrie allowed her to die so that the 'Palestinians' would have their 'international' 'martyr.' At the time, Charles Johnson wrote the following underneath a picture of 'Palestinians' carrying out a mock funeral for Corrie:
Let’s see how many different versions of this story we can identify; she was crushed to death protecting a house; she was run over twice; she was crushed under a falling wall while trying to prevent a bulldozer from uprooting shrubbery; etc. etc. etc. Pitiful. And just look at all the Western media, falling for this garbage.Five years ago, I'm not sure even Charles realized how the ISM had doctored the photographs. It's a pity that the IDF waited this long to release the video.
UPDATE 1:40 PM February 20
This post has been nominated for Non-Council Post of the Week by the Watcher's Council.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:29 PM
17 Comments:
Good work, Carl. Unfortunately this comes as no surprise to most of your readers, or to visitors from lgf. The fact that the Palis have an agenda is obvious; unfortunately the msm seem to be sharing it.
They should have wrapped her corpse in a nazi flag and sent the ramains to Berlin
This calls for pancakes and syrup for tomorrow morning's breakfast.
The idiots in the IDF who held up the release of this material for so many years, should be burried by a D9 themselves.
Carl, GOOD WORK!
I'll get some links to you of the excellent "St Corrie" MP3 recordings, that used to be posted in the Podcasts section of
www.ICallBS.net
Which is today running the story of HBO (Hussein Obama) being an Arab-American prevaricator...
WHAT THE HECK TOOK SO LONG? for this stuff to come out Why, oh WHY is Israel SO SUICIDAL when it comes to defending herself w/the truth???
Wherever I stand, I stand with Israel.
Carl,
I visit here often from your links on LGF and I wish to thank you for posting this material for all the world to see. As an aside, I think you need to have a clean-up on aisle "Mitch Haase". That's just totally inappropriate.
Thanks,
Barking Pumpkin
But this is really ZIONSIT SMEAR PROAPGANDA!!!!1111 That's not rly Rachel Corrie!!!111 IST ALL STAGED!!! STOP DELUDING YOURSLEF!!!!1111one
/bad impersonation attempt at the inevitable pro-Palestine comment that tends to end up on debunking sites like this, good job anyway
Rachel Corrie comes to mind whenever I read about snow groomer accidents.In 2003, an Ontario judge was killed by a snow groomer at Craigleith. Her daughter tried to alert the driver, but he did not hear her. In 1988 the Austrian Olympic team's physician was killed by a snow groomer in Alberta. Last month a Canadian student was critically injured in Michigan by a groomer whose operator didn't see the boy, ran over him and dragged him about 100 feet before coming to a stop. In none of the above cases were criminal charges laid against the driver. If it is difficult for the operator of a snow machine to see or hear someone in front of his vehicle, it would be at least as hard for the driver of a bulldozer with tiny bullet-proof windows. Of course the ‘reality on the ground’ never gets in the way of those who choose to demonize Israel.
Nice toupee dude. Public Access Cable TV shows FTW!
It's amazing that a momma-moonbat-looking woman in Santa Cruz, of all places, hosted this show. I hope Becky Johnson didn't get death threats after this aired. I'm sure most of her friends disowned her.
Good job, but this kind of information has been available for a while. That moron, Jos Smith, laid flowers at the exact spot where Rachel was run over on the day following her death. He was shown on Italian TV, with reporter Feci Ölümü, standing in the middle of a field, laying flowers where she was run over. There is no rubble, no nothing, at the spot. Smith is shown kneeling, crying, in the middle of a field. Later, the reporter interviews a Palestinian man who lives near the field, and he also points to the middle of the field as he describes Rachel getting squished. Apparently Smith hadn't yet met with his other retards and cooked up the story about Rachel protecting a house. Search YouTube with "Rachel Corrie'nin Feci Ölümü" and you'll get the video. Sometimes it's almost impossible to cover all your tracks. They missed this one.
Small mistake in the video clip - the operator of the D-9 was probably not named Dubi. "Dubi" is a generic nick name used by the IDF when referring to a bulldozer.
Credit for obtaining the video should be given to Lee Kaplan of www.StoptheISM.com and www.DAFKA.org for going to Israel and bringing back the evidence. This show actually aired in 2005, but after being ignored by mainstream media was finally shown on You Tube. Kaplan has been instrumental in pointing out the lies of the ISM and in getting many ISM activists deported from Israel. And that's his real hair, too.
Hard to tell which side is telling the truth here. I find it hard to believe that a young girl is so extremist as to protect weapons tunnels from destruction, so I tend to think that BOTH sides are using the tragic death of a socially aware person to further promote hatred towards their perceived enemy! Shame on you!
LOL Gaffa. You sound as illinformed as Rachel if you "feel" your way to an answer here. Did you do any reading on the subject and see Rachel's hate of Israel. Did you see the picture of her burning a picture of the US flag with hate on her face?The Palestinians hate sends their own children to death every day yet you find it difficult to believe they would use an ignorant American girl for their goal. You need to wake up.
Gaffa, it's EASY to tell which side is telling the truth: the terrorists told the girl it was just a house, & it wasn't, & this supposedly socially aware girl not only didn't realize they were lying, she burnt her own flag in their cause, but couldn't figure out not to SIT in front of a bulldozer (that stopped whenever she had STOOD in front of it).
As always, attempts to be "even-handed" always sicken me as they automatically & unfairly damn Israel.
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