Cindy and Craig Corrie
Rachel Corrie Foundation
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 – Listen to the Show
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on 16 March 2003, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.
The day after Rachel’s death, in a phone conversation Ariel Sharon promised President Bush a thorough, transparent and credible investigation of Rachel’s death which Rachel’s parents felt never happened. In 2010, in an attempt to reveal the truth regarding their daughter’s death the Corrie’s brought a lawsuit against Israel. The lawsuit has already in part succeeded in bringing attention to the sacrifice of their daughter.”
Since Rachel’s killing, an enormous amount of solidarity activities have been carried out in her name around the world, including the founding of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice by her parents which continues the work that Rachel Corrie began and hoped to accomplish, and carries out that work with her vision, spirit, and creative energy in mind. We conduct and support programs that foster connections between people, that build understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities. The foundation encourages and supports grassroots efforts in pursuit of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice, which we view as pre-requisites for world peace.
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I am sorry for the Corrie’s. It is such a hard thing to lose a daughter. Besides anger, Craig and Cindy probably feel some self recriminations for their part in the loss of their daughter. It is really a shame they did not teach her to stay out of the way of big machines in forbidden areas. This is probably the result of having been hoodwinked by replacement theology, thinking that Israel has been replaced by the church. God’s everlasting covenant with the Jews for the land of Israel will not be overturned by revisionists. It is a shame that Rachel’s life was sacrificed in vain. I am sorry.
Comment by John | July 10, 2011