I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to behave when you discover that atrocities are being commited in your name. Thank you.

" George Rishmawi director of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples told the San Francisco Chronicle that "'When Palestinians get shot by Israeli soldiers no one is interested anymore. " Corrie's sister Sarah Corrie Simpson stated that Rachel Corrie believed "without a doubt" that the driver had seen her as he approached and stated that Rachel Corrie hoped he would one day "have the courage" to tell the truth. Haifa District Court spokeswoman Nitzan Eyal said that her family could appeal the ruling.

They sued for a symbolic one U. In 2005 Corrie's parents filed a civil lawsuit against the state of Israel. She was run over twice by the bulldozer resulting in a fractured skull shattered ribs and punctured lungs.