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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=288495

WASHINGTON - Cindy and Craig Corrie remember very well the conversation 
when Rachel told them of her plans to go to Rafah to join an international 
delegation of activists that assists the Palestinians and fights against 
house demolitions. "She gave all kinds of hints and then she said: `I'm 
going'," says Craig Corrie. "I thought to myself - why don't you find 
yourself a soup kitchen here instead of going over there, but I didn't say 
anything.".

"Rachel felt that we don't understand the ongoing violence toward the 
Palestinians, says Cindy. She herself said she empathizes with all the 
sides. "I know there are families in Israel that lost more than one family 
member in suicide attacks and I know now that their pain is double," she 
says. But on the day Rachel would have celebrated her 24th birthday, 
Cindy's anger won out. A day earlier, Tom Horndal, British ISM activist, 
had been critically injured and she phoned the Israeli consul in San 
Francisco and told him that despite her great empathy for the Jewish 
people, the fact that the army had already injured three unarmed peace 
activists was not giving her any peace. "Even worse is that that same week 
17 Palestinians were killed, including five children and that didn't make 
any waves here," says Cindy Corrie.

Last Thursday, the Corrie family went again to Capitol Hill in Washington. 
They are trying to convince members of both houses of Congress to support a 
draft bill that would require the U.S. to investigate the circumstances of 
their daughter's death. Craig and Cindy do not conceal their frustration - 
mobilizing Congress members goes very slowly, political considerations 
interfere and suddenly, they find themselves facing a countermove, that 
mentions all the Americans killed in suicide attacks in Israel. Craig and 
Cindy say they will be happy to support this proposal, but not instead of a 
demand for an investigation.