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The Rachel Corrie Memorial Massacre
by Yassar Datsmibebe Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 at 11:12 AM

For this we can thank terror advocate turned accident victim, Rachel Corrie, and her legion of misguided supporters. Yassar Arafat and the PA have again proven themselves incapable of fostering peace or administering a sovereign government.

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Remember Rachel Corrie, the mixed-up 23-year-old hippie-chick from Olympia, Wash., whose hobbies included playing in traffic and burning the American flag. [ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=5864 ]. Last March the former pastime cost her her life. She stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer, but was in the driver's blind spot and was accidentally crushed to death.

Corrie's fatal game of chicken was the product of malice as well as idiocy. Her goal was to promote Palestinian terrorists' murderous campaign against Jews by obstructing Israeli efforts to destroy tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt into the Palestinian "refugee camp" in Rafah, on the Gaza Strip.

A terrorist group known as the Popular Resistance Committee has issued a confession to this week’s murder of three Americans in the Gaza strip. The Popular Resistance Committee is a rough miscellany of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah dropouts, who merged to form a purely military group with the aim of fighting the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] and launching attacks on settlements in the Gaza Strip.

The attack this week by Palestinian terrorists murdered at least three Americans on the Gaza Strip. And where did the Palestinian terrorist’s bombs come from? To Gaza via the same tunnels that Terror Advocate, Rachel Corrie, gave her life defending.

In an interview last year with The Jerusalem Post, the Popular Resistance Committee’s shadowy spokesman, Abu Adnan, explained how the group acquires the explosives necessary to blow up a tank or, as in the case of Wednesday's bombing, a heavily armored car.

"We get the material using three methods," he said. "We smuggle it into Gaza; we trade mostly with Israelis, but also with the Egyptians. We also manufacture the material here, and sometimes we steal it from Israeli army bases."

Corrie died trying to obstruct Israeli efforts to destroy tunnels that were used for just such smuggling of weapons into Gaza. Ha'aretz [ http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/350727.html ] reports Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority itself may have been involved with the smuggling: The Shin Bet security service released Thursday that it had arrested Palestinian Authority official Akram Tubasi in September on suspicion of buying weapons in Egypt and smuggling them into the Gaza Strip." (Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.)

Ha'aretz notes that among the members of the Popular Resistance Committee are "former Palestinian security officials," which raises an interesting question: Did the CIA train the terrorists who attacked a convoy that included CIA officials? An editorial in London's Telegraph notes:
The attack in Gaza should prompt a reappraisal of CIA training of Palestinian security personnel, which constitutes a critical plank of the Oslo process. The Palestinian Authority's complex apparatus is so riddled with Islamist infiltrators--some of whom may have tipped off the terrorists on the whereabouts of the American convoy--as to raise serious questions about whether it is a genuine partner for peace. Like the Saudi intelligence services, which are heavily penetrated by bin Laden, the Palestinian security machine is at best a liability in the war on terrorism. http://opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/10/16/dl1601.xml

Meanwhile, the Arab News blames the Jews for the anti-American attack. The paper published the cartoon above showing an American lying dead from a knife wound, with a caricature of an Orthodox Jewish man standing over the body, holding a bloody knife behind his back. http://www.arabnews.com/cartoon/2003/10/16.jpg

The roadside bomb that killed three U.S. citizens traveling in an official convoy in the Gaza Strip on this past Wednesday may also have claimed another casualty -- the absurd argument offered by many that Palestinian militant groups are distinguishable from terrorist organizations.

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