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"ComeInPeace" <Jimmy_Ray@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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.



Demand justice!!!  It's time for EVERYONE to follow the rules!!!  Not just
the citizens!!!