Kevin - are you really that moronic? what you call "demonization" is the reaction to disprove those that hold her up as a hero...and why isn't she a hero?
Rachel Corrie was taking part in an act of civil disobediance, and was somehow killed by a bulldozer. The tragedy of her death is now being exploited, and while NOTHING takes away from the gravity of this incident there are things that should be known because they change the picture entirely. 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.
The International Solidarity Movement are the same group that gathered around Arafat while under seige, and also held up negotiations to get the wanted terrorists out of the Church of Nativity. 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.
Where are 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?
Finally, there are huge inconsistancies in eyewitness acounts and a disinformation campaign surrounding fake photographs distributed by the ISM through Reuters (who sent the photos out with their credit for some reason) and various websites .
http://www.palsolidarity.org/index.php?page=rachel.htm
The text on this page was changed when people caught on that these photos depicted two different bulldozers. The original story ran that these photos were from the crime scene, as a before and after.
There is 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. She died tragically 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.