
Rachel; The true martyr of the decade
March 16, 2003 in Palestine a girl from America stood before an Israeli Bulldozer with a held up head against Zionist terrorism to prevent a demolition of Palestine's house. The driver looked at her and listened to her pleads to get back from the mission, but he was as heinous as a demon then. He just drew the tank back and ran over her with out any hesitation. The tank fully pressed her in to the dry sand and cracked her head left her brutally killed in front her colleagues who were trying to stop the Bulldozer. Zionist terrorism again proved it gives zero value to the human lives. Thus she joined her hand with other innumerable Palestine victims.
The incident described above is the one which attracted the world attention towards the Zionist brutality in Palestine. Rachel corrie, that was her name, was member of International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a human right association including UK and USA activists. Taking a year off from her college, Evergreen State College,USA, she and her friends reached out Palestine and were working as “human shields" to protect the Palestine’s house from the Zionist demolition. It was the time Israel released its all monstrous acts against the Palestine settlement in Gaza. A lot of people were brutally murdered and several houses were demolished leaving thousands of Palestines with out shelter.
Like all other chances Rachel tried to stop the bulldozer was coming towards the house of Samir Nasrallah, a Palestinian pharmacist. Wearing her fluorescent jacket, she knelt down at least 15 meters in front of the bulldozer, and began waving her arms and shouting, just as activists had successfully done dozens of times that day... When it got so close that it was moving the earth beneath her, she climbed onto the pile of rubble being pushed by the bulldozer... Her head and upper torso were above the bulldozer’s blade, and the bulldozer driver and co-operator could clearly see her. Despite this, the driver continued forward, which caused her to fall back, out of view of the diver. He continued forward, and she tried to scoot back, but was quickly pulled underneath the bulldozer. We ran towards him, and waved our arms and shouted; one activist with the megaphone. But the bulldozer driver continued forward, until Rachel was all the way underneath the central section of the bulldozer.
Despite the big controversy emerged the incident never was taken seriously by the USA, who help relentlessly the Zionist to kill men, and the Israeli government. But she made an impact among the human right activists who keep the guts to stand against the inhuman action in the earth. More than 30 songs were written about and dedicated to her since 2003 by various musicians including Patti Smith, Alice Shields, Mike Stout, Billy Bragg, and Philip Munger. Every year philistines and human lovers remember her as the gem of martyrs’ history.
She is the genuine hero; she is the real martyr of last decade
Oh! Rachel you live in our heart still
As a red star blessed with the martyrdom!