Corrie
aligned herself sentimentally and
seamlessly with suffering Palestinians, reserving for them her absolute
anger and attendant
pity to the extent that suffering Israelis merited nothing but a
sneering hatred from her. Corrieās idealism did not proceed from love
but from ideologically induced hatred. She was a de-facto apologist for
Palestinian terrorism, and she died trying to prevent the work of an
Israeli bulldozer, which was searching for munitions buried in the
ground . Contrary to Palestinian reports and what is generally claimed,
the bulldozer was not there to demolish a house, (though houses used as
cover for weapon-smuggling tunnels were demolished by the IDF, but not
on that particular day). Any which way you slice it, those munitions
were there to be utilized in attacks against innocent civilians. Corrie
died protecting terrorist weapons. She was completely indifferent to the
deaths these weapons spelled at a time when suicide bombings were a
matter of daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence in Israel.
The Contentious Centrist
"Civilization is not self-supporting. It is artificial. If you are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization -- you are done." (Ortega y Gasset)