A-Infos (en) Statement On The Murder Of Rachel Corrie by Israeli Occupation Forces, 16 March 2003.

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The military might of Israel has been pounding the 
cities, towns and camps of the Palestinian Arabs of 
the Occupied Territories. Thousands have been 
slain, including our comrade Rachel Corrie, a young 
activist with the International Solidarity 
Movement whose work we have has supported in 
New York City. The infrastructure of a poor people, 
whose ongoing devastation Rachel was witness to, 
has been wrecked. Hospitals, roads, 
communications, indistries, government offices, 
cultural institutions and, tragically, as we have 
seen, even homes have been ruthlessly and 
deliberately destroyed. This, after 35 years of 
Israel's colonial occupation of these Territories, the 
longest occupation of another people's land in 
modern times.

That the Israelis have been able to do this is in 
large part due to the decades of political, military 
and, especially, economic support it has received 
from the United States Government. The State of 
Israel is by far the greatest recipient in the world 
of US governmental aid and long-term loans. In 
addition, unlike efforts to cut off private aid to 
officially labelled "terrorists," the US government 
allows its citizens to give a great deal of financial 
aid to the Israeli State. This must stop.

We call on every citizen and institution in the 
United States to cut economic ties with Israel and 
to divest their holdings in companies that deal in 
Israeli goods, particularly those who supply 
weapons, machinery and supplies to the Israeli 
Occupation Forces.

It is the Occupation Forces who wreak terror and 
destruction upon innocent civilians. It is the 
Occupation Forces who prevent medical and relief 
personnel, as well as peace workers, from reaching 
the sick, the dying and the desperate. It is the 
Occupation Forces who have beaten and shot at our 
comrades in the International Solidarity 
Movement. It is the Occupation Forces who 
terrorized members of the Christian Peacemakers 
Team and The Fellowship of Reconcilliation during 
the seige of the Church of the Nativity. It is the 
Occupation Forces, in a display of callousness that 
would chill the heart were it not a matter of all too 
regular occurence in the lives of Palestinians, who 
drove a bulldozer over Rachel Corrie, crushing her 
to death. It is the Occupation Forces who killed 
more Palestinians the same day they killed Rachel.

We therefore call for all supporters of the 
Palestinian struggle, all war resisters and, 
especially, our comrades in the struggle against 
neoliberalism to join the movement that has 
linked itself to the historic South African 
divestment campaign. Grassroots efforts like the 
one that helped topple the apartheid regime in 
South Africa will become a critical element in the 
successful struggle of the Palestinian people for 
liberation. At this time, the Caterpillar

Corporation should be the target of sustained 
action. Caterpillar supplies the D-9 Bulldozer the 
Occupation Forces used to kill Rachel and 
numerous others in the process of illiegally 
destroying Palestinain homes.

The Israeli State must stop their genocidal assault. 
They must unilaterally withdraw their military 
forces from the West Bank, Gaza and East 
Jerusalem. They must withdraw their military 
bases and checkpoints from the Occupied 
Territories. They must negotiate a return of the 
Palestinian people to Israel. They must pay full 
compensation for the property they have seized. 
They must recognize the right of the Palestinian 
people to self- government.

We recognize that the first revolutionary struggle 
of this maligned and valiant people is to survive. 
As in the struggle of Irish republicans against the 
British monarchy, as in the struggle of black South 
Africans against Afrikaner nationalists, as in the 
struggle of Native Americans against white 
settlers, we affirm the Palestinians' right to armed 
resistance against their colonial oppressors.

We salute the International Solidarity Movement 
and all those who witness horror to work for peace. 
We salute the living sacrifice of Rachel Corrie and 
the unyielding spirit of the Palestinian people. 
Earth shall not bury the Intifada in their hearts.

Christine Karatnytsky

Open City Anarchist Collective, NYC North 
Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists 18 
March 2003

opencity (at) nefac.net http://nefac.net/

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