Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

" 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.