[KevinTheOmnivore]

Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx

The house she was "protecting" was empty. It was being used for smuggling guns, and drugs to Egypt, and involved a prostituion ring on what is known as the Philladelphi route http://www.idf.il/newsite/english/0211-3.stm. The Rafah area is the most dangerous neighborhood in the West Bank and Gaza. She was acting as a human shield for a terrorist operation under the guise of a peace keeping mission.

Your link is dead, but on that note, can anyone other than the IDF verify this? Forgive me if I don't take the word of the suspect without question....

Of course she was in a dangerous part of the region, that's why she was there. Human shields who didn't want to be put in dangerous places in Iraq were chastized for showing cowardice. Corrie put her body where her mouth was, and she paid the price for it.

The International Solidarity Movement are the same group that gathered around Arafat while under seige,

You mean the action that was condemned throughout the world, including by President Bush...?

and also held up negotiations to get the wanted terrorists out of the Church of Nativity.

Were they definitely terrorists? This seemed to be in question, with the priests inside even denying this.

11 days after the Corrie death, the IDF captured a wanted terrorist, Islamic Jihad's Shadi Sukia known for recruiting children to be suicide bombers, at the ISM office. Their function seems to be aiding and acting as human shields for militants, NOT Palestinian civilians.

Yes, and they denied knowing this. Sure, you'll dismiss them and assume they are liars. But before you do that out of opinion on the issue, you should actually talk to and meet the people who participate in this organization. I know several, and they are good, moral, honest people, young and old. They don't support terrorism, nor do they support being pawns. Any exploitation against them is due, if anything, to ignorance. But before you assume that they are a front group for terror and "revolution," you should take the time to realize that these are human beings. They don't hate the Jews, they aren't Hamas, they don't want to push anybody into the Sea. Could they be taken advantage of? Of course. But in an area where a man is one bulldozed homeaway from becoming a terrorist himself, how do you differentiate...?

re the human shields riding on buses protecting Israeli civilians? Where's the campaign in memory of the 14 year old baptist girl from the u.s. who was killed the same week from a suicide bomb?

Has the U.S. opened an investigation on her case? That's something they neglected to do for Ms. Corrie.

On the bus issue-- The terrorism enacted against innocent Israeli citizens is unjust and horrid. However, the circumstances are different. The Israeli buses unfortunately have to have an IDF soldier on every bus. This is unfortunate, because the Israelis are accustomed to a free, democratic society where such conditions are not acceptable.

In places like the West Bank, sanction and curfew are apart of every day life. Simply walking outside your house, a simple routine, can result in walking into a crossfire. Soldiers ride buses in Israel because terrorism is unacceptable. ISM activists volunteer to walk with Palestinians, because not only is violence common, it's expected all the time.

s also the issue of where she died. Some say the hospital. Some say on the scene. There were x-rays taken, and one normally doesn't x-ray a corpse.

One does however x-ray a corpse I would think when the accusation of a crime has been made. Not only would it have served the ISM, it would serve the case of the IDF to likewise have her corpse x-rayed.

died tragiically in the hospital from accidental wounds after playing a game of protestor chicken. Her death was not an honorable one, and it wasn't for an honorable cause...yet there are those that want to make her a martyr.

Not honorable to you because the ISM is a terrorist front group. Not a martyr to you because you disagree with her cause. Thus the politicization I mentioned upon comes into play.

I already said I can't say one way or another. Maybe this is a tragic case of wrong place, wrong time. Either way, there has been a clear attempt to smear her as a violent supporter of terrorism. Anyone who knew her, or read about her life, would know this to be untrue.