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Dreadsox said:
Ms. Klein paints a picture of a peace loving young woman. She paints a picture of a woman that believed in the non-violent approach to slow the conflict down.
Here are Ms. Corrie's own words on the topic of Palestinian fighters/terrorists:
Ms. Corrie Continues:
Yes she writes about the courage of the TERRORISTS. They were TERRORISTS. One of the two TERRORISTS that she writes of with such admiration was wearing a suicide belt. Here are the statistics from the morning of February 10, 1993:
February 10: A drive-by terrorist shooting at the entrance to the IDF Southern Command base in Be?er Sheva killed two female soldiers and injured four others. One of the Palestinian terrorists was killed at the scene; the second, wearing an explosives belt, fled in the direction of a nearby school when he was shot and killed by a soldier and police officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. This is the attack she writes about in her journal. These friends of hers.
You accuse me of posting biased articles. Ms. Klein, clearly has her own agenda with this article.
Peace
Dread,
I think you have been had.
Diary of a Peace Activist: Nablus Lockdown Intensifies
Saturday, February 22 2003 @ 05:21 AM GMT
By Anne Gwynne in Nablus
Editor?s Note: PalestineChronicle.com contributor Anne Gwynne, 65, from Wales, was shot at by Israeli troops and was hit in the leg by shrapnel while trying to help a pregnant Palestinian mother through the old quarter of the besieged town of Nablus.
NABLUS - The situation here in Nablus today is the worst it has been since I came here six weeks ago. This city of 186,000 people is completely closed to the outside world - sealed off. We are very few internationals - too few to send anyone to the checkpoints this morning; every point of entry is closed and patients are not being allowed to go to the hospitals. The IOF is now beating Internationals at the checkpoints - today a Swedish woman and a Danish man. I have called the West Bank IOF offices many, many times and have spoken to several underlings who say that there is complete closure on Nablus, except for ambulances, which should be allowed through. But they are not being. I called the Press Office, the West Bank Command and the Nablus Command and they all deny that this is happening - we know first-hand that it is.
Anne Gwynne
Nihad, the Raffidia Ambulance driver is here with me now, and he had to leave at 5 am to bring four patients from Jericho. He had a hugely stressful time at Huwarra (he arrived here with a shot through his windshield), but it was before 9 am and he eventually got through. Now Huwarra is completely closed - any person who approaches the checkpoint (without knowledge of the closure) is either turned away or beaten. Our ambulance answered calls from Beit Fouriq village and has just returned from there. The crew's ID was taken until they revisited the checkpoint, and the degree of aggression and abuse from the soldiers exceeded previous experiences - if that's possible. Two patients were picked up and eventually passed through the first Beit Fouriq checkpoint - a man with chest pains and an old woman with a fracture. She was removed from the Ambulance at the second of the TWO checkpoints from Beit Fouriq, and made to stand out of the Ambulance, in great pain, so that it could be searched minutely. At Beit Iba, ambulances are being held for more than an hour. How any 'terrorists' can an ambulance hide in its tiny lockers? This has no purpose other than to disrupt the life here and to make the carrying-on of any normal activity impossible. I believe that these Israeli occupiers will never succeed here.
Why is it that, instead of admiring courage, the Israelis are incensed by it? Every day I wonder what is it in their psyche upon which feeds their hatred whenever courage and dignity are displayed to them - a thousand times every day.
A woman in the last stage of labour had been held for the morning at the dreaded Beit Fouriq checkpoint - the soldiers there are so bad that I cannot imagine where they find them. Her husband was in great distress and asked Jarere to take her to Nablus, since the ambulance was returning to the city. Amid the shouting and screaming of abuse, the soldiers slammed the doors of the Ambulance and ordered it to "GO" . Imagine, in your own land, driving a life-saving ambulance, and being told, dozens of times a day, whom you can help and who not, being ordered to leave people who need your help in the middle of the mud, and, at best, being delayed for hours - the terrorism is unimaginable. And it is not a case of "walk not ride" - they are not allowed to walk either. And when you are held at Beit Fouriq checkpoint you are not anywhere at all - just in the middle of an expanse of mud with no cover of any kind.
By the way, I have used the word "checkpoint" so many times here that you will feel that you are really bored with hearing it - because for you it is a word - for us it is a many-times-a-day reality of abuse, violence, confrontation, humiliation, delay and, sometimes, death.
Courage And More Martyrs
I was in the centre of Nablus yesterday, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when a youth was shot and killed by the IOF. He is SAMER ZORBHA, aged 18, a student at the High School in Nablus. He was shot twice, one bullet to the shoulder and lung, a favourite target, another to the side of the head. Another was very seriously shot and a third injured, I don't know how badly. Samer is the best friend of a beautiful young Volunteer at the UPMRC Medical Relief Centre, Mohamed al Aseel, and we are feeling his loss with anger as well as grief.
In retaliation for this murderous attack, fighters last night offered their life for their friend and succeeded in killing two of the illegal occupying force, and injuring another. Two young fighters were killed and I don't yet know the extent of other injuries. I would tell you that, from my bedroom window, I saw the night sky in the area lit up like it was day for more than an hour with brilliant flares and I saw the trail of rockets missiles and machine-guns bullets fired from the US gunship helicopters ? so inappropriately named "Apache" - and heard the rapid clatter of the guns of the ships of death riding the starry sky like alien invaders from another world. I heard the explosions of many shells and, I am not sure, but I think a bomb from a US F-16 warplane - the sky was full of them. There was protracted gun-fire for more than an hour. So these young guys really fought it out with the fourth largest military in the world before becoming Martyrs. Tomorrow their pictures will join the hundreds of others, which cover all the wall space of Nablus.
Many tanks, Hummers and Jeeps (all US gifts) rushed to the scene ? many columns of them passed in our road as I watched from my window at midnight - the city is criss-crossed with new tank tracks and damage this morning. A shell case fell in our garden! I was walking back to my home just before midnight and heard APC's coming up the road - not usually afraid of these
brainwashed soldiers, last night I felt very afraid and ran fast for the alley at the side of my home. As I was running, a Helicopter came overhead, following the light of a flare and, as I thought of how exposed I was, in a well-lit street with no cover, I was sick with terror for a few minutes as I ran for cover. It seemed a long time.
I would like to ask those of you who read this to think about the relative positions of the fighters and occupiers in this monumentally unequal struggle. While the huge force of Israelis have every technical aid invented by the US war machine, the few young fighters have NOTHING BUT THEIR WEAPON (and this not the most modern) - no helmet, bullet proof vest, radio contact or other protection. No back-up, no plane, helicopter, tank, APC, searchlight, dogs, flares, ambulance or refuge - put all the Israeli/American propaganda aside for a few minutes and try to imagine, please, the courage it requires to do what these young fighters do in defence of their city, knowing that the odds are against escape and that, every time they do succeed in evading death, the odds against a further survival are shortened. Even if their operation is a success the price is always high.
And every time the Israeli Command terrorises Nablus - as today with tanks and Jeeps and APC's bristling with death at every junction within the city, operating a lock-down even worse than before (how can this be possible) - more Martyrs are ready to defend the honour of Palestine and fight for the freedom of surely the most gentle, generous and peaceful people on earth.
Everyone, PLEASE protest to your representatives at all levels, write a letter (no matter how short) telling of the criminal acts being visited upon an innocent civilian population every day in Nablus - can we allow the courage of an exceptional people to continue to be the reason for hatred, maiming, murder and destruction on a scale and for a period never seen before in history.
Anne Gwynne is working with the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees in Nablus.