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To: JohnM who wrote (82758)	3/16/2003 5:50:35 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 281500

American Protester Is Killed By Israeli Bulldozer in Gaza Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An American woman in Gaza to protest Israeli operations was killed Sunday when she was run over by an Israeli bulldozer, witnesses and hospital officials said. The incident occurred as Israel sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, barring Palestinians from entering Israel for fear that militants are planning to launch attacks over the Jewish holiday of Purim, which starts Tuesday. Rachel Corrie, 23, a college student from Olympia, Wash., had been trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator. Greg Schnabel, 28, of Chicago, said the protesters were in the house of Dr. Samir Masri. Israeli almost daily has been tearing down houses of Palestinians it suspects of being connected to Islamic militant groups, saying such operations deter attacks on Israel such as suicide bombings. "Rachel was alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them to stop," Mr. Schnabel said. "She waved for the bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled, "Stop, stop," and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her." Witnesses said Ms. Corrie was wearing a brightly colored jacket when the bulldozer hit her. She had been a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia and would have graduated this year, Mr. Schnabel said. The Israeli military and the U.S. State Department had no immediate comment. Groups of international protesters have gathered in several locations in the West Bank and Gaza during two years of Palestinian violence, setting themselves up as "human shields" to try to stop Israeli operations. Ms. Corrie was the first member of the groups -- which are called the International Solidarity Movement and backed by Palestinian groups -- to be killed in the conflict. Several activists have been arrested in clashes with Israeli forces, and some have been deported by Israeli authorities. Mr. Schnabel said there were eight protesters at the site in Rafah, four from the U.S. and four from Britain. "We stay with families whose house is to be demolished," he told the Associated Press by telephone after the incident. Israel sends tanks and bulldozers into the area almost every day, destroying buildings near the Gaza-Egypt border. The Israelis say Palestinian gunmen use the buildings as cover, and that arms-smuggling tunnels dug under the border terminate in the buildings. On midnight Saturday, Israel closed its borders with the West Bank and Gaza ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim -- which commemorates the saving of the Jews from genocide in Persia, as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther. The holiday has been celebrated in heavy security every year since 1994, when a Jewish settler killed 29 Palestinians in Hebron on Purim. Since then, Palestinian Islamic militants have used Purim celebrations to exact revenge against Israeli Jews. Holiday festivities in 1996 were canceled after four suicide bombings in eight days killed 63 people in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; in 1997, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a Tel Aviv cafe, killing himself and three Israeli women. Meanwhile, Palestinian legislators said Saturday the U.S. administration's promise to adhere to last year's "road map" for Palestinian statehood was a positive sign, signaling that President George W. Bush would push for the plan's implementation without any changes. But some argue the plan has yet to clear its biggest road block: getting both the Israelis and Palestinians to agree on how and when it is to be implemented. Mr. Bush said Friday he would present the "road map" once a credible Palestinian prime minister took power -- a decision that could be made as early as Monday when the Palestinian Legislative Council decides whether to approve Mahmoud Abbas, an executive in the PLO, for the new position. Palestinians have clearly said it will be Mr. Arafat who retains control in negotiations and security.

To: JohnM who wrote (82758)	3/16/2003 6:52:10 PM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Re:<<Now another president and a small group of advisers, who say only they know, are going to war praising traditional American values. But, like Nixon and Kissinger before them, President Bush and his small group of advisers are doing the same thing without law or the real effort to win the consent of the governed. >> John, how are you ever going to learn anything if you keep reading the same junk? Bush has the consent of the governed. There is a misguided minority who refuse to accept the will of the majority. You cannot ever win the consent of everyone. Some are just a bit too pigheaded.