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Buns_of_Fire

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5. Run you over with a bulldozer? Sure he would. Just like Rachel Corrie.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:29 AM
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Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, she was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military was demolishing Palestinian houses at the height of the Second Intifada. While protesting the demolitions as they were being carried out, she was killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer that crushed her.

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Physicians present and fellow ISM activists stated that Corrie had been wearing a high-visibility vest and was deliberately driven over, while the Israeli army said that it was an accident because the bulldozer operator did not see her. Following the incident, an Israeli military investigation concluded that Corrie's death was the result of an accident and that the bulldozer operator had limited visibility. The ruling attracted criticism from organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), B'Tselem, and Yesh Din. HRW stated that the ruling represented a pattern of impunity for Israeli forces. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro stated that the Israeli investigation was unsatisfactory, lacking thoroughness, credibility and transparency, and that therefore the U.S. government is unsatisfied with the investigation's closure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

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The Trump Ballroom [View all] kentuck Monday OP
It's a big middle finger to the American people. Diamond_Dog Monday #1
This is SO fucking bizarre. How is it allowed? yellow dahlia Monday #2
Knowing him as we do now canetoad Monday #3
Yup. yellow dahlia Monday #4
Run you over with a bulldozer? Sure he would. Just like Rachel Corrie. Buns_of_Fire Tuesday #5
I guess they would. yellow dahlia Tuesday #6
I was thinking the same thing .... Mossfern Tuesday #7
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