Rachel Corrie, the woman killed accidently while protesting the Israelis and enabling the Palestinians in Gaza to import weapons, died a year ago today. Of course her hometown papers have made her a martyr, as did Arafat, for aiding terrorism.

The Seattle Times article is just plain misguided:

First, the Israeli army has never claimed that any tunnels were found under Dr. Samir Nasrallah's home, which Corrie was defending, nor any others in that area along the Egyptian border.

Second, weapons that get through tunnels are primarily used in attacks against soldiers and settlers within the Gaza Strip, not against civilians within Israel. One of the main arguments Israeli officials use to justify building the barrier in the West Bank is the fact that no Palestinian suicide bombers have come from Gaza in the past three years due to the heavily monitored 30-mile electrified fence that keeps its 1.3 million impoverished Palestinians isolated from the world, and Israel.

How would this guy possibly know that the weapons "are primarily used in attacks against soldiers and settlers within the Gaza Strip, not against civilians within Israel"? The settlers he refers to are, of course, civilians.

The article in Seattle Post-Intelligencer (a worse name the Times-Picayune) has this:

Can you imagine trying to watch TV with your husband and kids but the sound of a helicopter above your house is so loud that it drowns out the sound? Can you imagine your kids running into your arms in fear, desperate for reassurance that you can't give?

Imagine that you have just enough time to get your kids into your bedroom, under the bed, before the ceiling explodes down around your heads because a missile has been shot from the helicopter. Picture yourself running outside without shoes, a kid holding each hand, to your neighbor's house. Can you imagine experiencing this and not being able to call anyone for help?

Rachel chose not to live in insulated, unimaginative safety. She could picture Palestinians' plight so well that she felt moved to do something about it. She imagined and fought for a world where everyone lives in freedom, peace, equality and justice.

Can you imagine getting on a bus to go to work or school and have some 72-virgin seeking lunatic blow themselves and you up? Or perhaps kill your child? The Israelis do not target civilians, although sadly, some civilians die. The Palestinians intentionally take out as many civilian women and children as possible. There's no moral equivalence.

The people in Seattle may remember Rachel in the pictures shown in the articles, I remember her like this.