[Peace] op ed on Rachel

[Linda Evans]

Funny, I was just thinking this would be good for the
Public I.  I'll take it to the meeting tonight.

Linda
--- Thomas Mackaman <mackaman at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi Susan et al,
> 
> I think that the DI might be a good bet.  The
> opinions page seems to be more open than in the
> past.  I'm not sure what their policy might be on
> printing a long column by a non-university member,
> but I think in this case a couple of arguments could
> be made.  Personally, I've had poor luck getting
> things printed.  Anyone know how to approach this? 
> Would the Public I print it?
> 
> Tom   
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:51:25 -0600
> >From: sparenti <sparenti at staff.uiuc.edu>  
> >Subject: [Peace] op ed on Rachel  
> >To: peace at lists.groogroo.com, sdas at onthejob.net
> >
> >Hello! Mark Enslin and I, plus the current students
> at SDaS, are at Evergreen 
> >College in Olympia Washington, doing a 2 week
> residency.
> >
> >This is also the home, and school, of Rachel
> Corrie, the activist who was bull 
> >dozered and killed in Palestine last year.
> >
> >Friends and family of hers are looking for more
> ways and places to disseminate 
> >the following article.
> >
> >Does anyone have any ideas? Daily Illini? Local
> papers?
> >Public announcements on WEFT and WILL?
> >
> >Susan
> >===== Original Message From "Lori Blewett"
> <blewettl at evergreen.edu> =====
> >Hi Susan,
> >This is an article from Steve Niva.  (He was at
> your performance tonight).
> >He is looking for people and papers that might
> print the article.  Perhaps
> >there is someone in Urbana who could get it into
> the paper there.  Any
> >suggestions/emails?
> >--Lori Blewett
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Niva, Steve" <NivaS at evergreen.edu>
> >To: "Current Events" <mecrisis at lists.evergreen.edu>
> >Cc: "Nguyen, Phan" <NguyenP at evergreen.edu>
> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:05 PM
> >Subject: [mecrisis] op ed on Rachel
> >
> >
> >> Folks,
> >> I've just written this op-ed and want to get a
> northwest paper (seattle)
> >to
> >> run it. Ed Mast is going to take a look and may
> use his group to put out
> >> some op eds. But if you all want to use it or
> suggest other ways to
> >> configure it for use... feel free.  I've got it
> down to 850 words, which
> >is
> >> still too long for some places and I have a
> longer version as well.
> >> Best, Steve
> >>
> >>
> >> Rachel Corrie:  An American Victim of Israel's
> Wall
> >> Steve Niva*
> >>
> >>
> >> A year has passed since Rachel Corrie, a 23
> year-old American peace
> >activist
> >> from Olympia, Washington, was killed by an Israel
> army bulldozer while
> >> nonviolently trying to prevent the demolition of
> a Palestinian house in
> >the
> >> city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
> >>
> >> The Israeli government has refused to release its
> June 2003 final military
> >> police investigation report to the United States
> and continues to claim
> >that
> >> her death was simply an "unfortunate accident"
> despite the testimony of
> >six
> >> eyewitnesses who that claim that Rachel was
> clearly visible to the
> >bulldozer
> >> drivers with her bright red jacket and that it
> lifted her up and drove
> >over
> >> her repeatedly with its plow down.
> >>
> >> It is no wonder that the Corrie family is urging
> Congress to pass House
> >> Concurrent Resolution 111, the Rachel Corrie
> Resolution, which calls upon
> >> the "United States government to undertake a
> full, fair, and expeditious
> >> investigation into the death of Rachel Corrie."
> >>
> >> Yet while questions remain about the details of
> Rachel's death, there
> >should
> >> be no question about its ultimate cause.  Rachel
> was killed by Israel's
> >> wall.
> >>
> >> Palestinian homes in Rafah, including the one
> Rachel was killed defending,
> >> are being demolished daily by Israeli bulldozers
> to make way for a massive
> >> 6-meter high steel wall Israel is building along
> the Egyptian border with
> >> Rafah.
> >>
> >> According to United Nation's officials, over the
> past three years Israel
> >has
> >> destroyed nearly 900 houses in Rafah in order to
> create a one hundred
> >meter
> >> "buffer zone" between Palestinian homes and the
> wall.  Daily shelling and
> >> armed raids over the past three years have killed
> nearly 300 Palestinians
> >> and have left more than 8,600 people homeless. 
> In addition, British
> >> activist Tom Hurndall and the BBC cameraman James
> Miller were also killed
> >in
> >> Rafah last year near the wall.
> >>
> >> This wall is the Gaza version of the massive wall
> and fence barrier that
> >> Israel is building deep within Palestinian lands
> in the West Bank, which
> >> herds Palestinians into tiny enclaves, separating
> hundreds of thousands
> >from
> >> their families and land.  The International Court
> of Justice is widely
> >> expected to declare this barrier both illegal and
> unwarranted by the end
> >of
> >> this month.
> >>
> >> The Israeli army's specious justification to the
> international community
> >for
> >> the systematic degradation of Rafah has been the
> ongoing search for
> >tunnels
> >> across the Egyptian border which it claims are
> used to smuggle weapons for
> >> Palestinian militants to kill Israeli civilians. 
>  Some Israeli apologists
> >> even claim that Rachel was knowingly defending
> these tunnels and, thus,
> >> suicide bombers.
> >>
> >> While no one disputes the existence of a small
> number of tunnels that
> >funnel
> >> weapons to militants, Israeli security
> justifications for destroying Rafah
> >> in order to find these tunnels cannot be taken at
> face value.  Nor can
> >> callous claims that Rachel was defending tunnels
> and suicide bombers.
> >> First, the Israeli army does not even claim that
> any tunnels were found
> >> under the home of Dr. Samir Nasrallah, or others
> in the bloc of houses
> >> Rachel was defending when she was killed.
> >> Second, any weapons that get through tunnels are
> only used in guerrilla
> >> actions against soldiers and settlers within the
> Gaza Strip, not against
> >> civilians within Israel.  One of the main
> arguments Israeli officials use
> >to
> >> justify building the barrier in the West Bank is
> the fact that no
> >> Palestinian suicide bombers have come from Gaza
> in the past three years
> >due
> >> to the heavily monitored 30-mile electrified
> fence that keeps its 1.3
> >> million impoverished Palestinians isolated from
> the world, and Israel.
> 
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