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'My Name is also Rachel' (a terror-ISM reminder)
Keshertalk, offering a timely reminder that Rachel Corrie wasn't the only young Rachel killed in the conflict notes:
Eight
Israelis named Rachel, along with 950 others, including Israeli Arabs,
Palestinians, tourists, guest workers and others were murdered by
Palestinian terrorists in 2003, the year Corrie was killed.
As Haifa University professor and blogger Steven Plaut acerbically points out:
Corrie died as a result of her own stupidity. She was in Gaza to help promote Palestinian terrorism and to prevent Israel from protecting its own citizens. She died protecting the illegal tunnels into Gaza from Egypt, through which the suicide bombers obtained their materials. The most lasting images of Corrie was of her face contorted with rage and as she burned an American flag. When Reuters
reported that Palestinians "honored" her after her death in a "symbolic
funeral" by flying U.S. flags, James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal remarked that if Corrie were still alive, no doubt she'd have burned the flags.


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