the continuing corrie saga.

Keeping the story alive for a decade  is entirely praiseworthy. The battle the Corries have fought  so far  has worked to keep more than just the story alive. The interest in the lack of justice in Israel is also kept  alive. Compare the Corrie story with the lack of any follow up with the Israeli killing  of another young American citizen on  a ship that was trying to break the Israeli blockade  . Or compare this to the silence that surrounds the death of an Australian whose family chose to keep quiet. Still chooses silence over justice.  

This story itself is quite an eye opener into the  reality of the Israeli state. It's so called  justice and  it's so called  'only democracy in the Middle East'. 

Rachel's Legacy

The Corries’ Ten-Year Quest for Justice

by TOM WRIGHT and THERESE SALIBA

“Parents can be awakened by their children”

–Cindy Corrie, 2003 Commencement address

Ten years have now passed since we received the terrible phone call telling us our young friend Rachel Corrie was dead.  We had gone to see her off the drizzly winter day she left Olympia to work in Gaza with the International Solidarity Movement.  We couldn’t know that we were seeing her for the last time, nor foresee the legacy she would leave as she said goodbye to her hometown, and stepped into history.

Rachel would be killed on March 16, 2003, crushed beneath an armored Israeli bulldozer as she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gazan border town of Rafah.

It seems likely that Rachel’s story would by now have faded from memory as just one more among the thousands of deaths in Gaza over the past decade, but for the efforts of her parents, Craig and Cindy.  Having no prior involvement in the Israel-Palestine issue, they immersed themselves in a process of self-education and public activism so relentless and untiring that even now it leaves their friends slack-jawed in amazement.

Rachel’s family has witnessed an eventful decade—in the Middle East and at home.  They’ve pursued legal struggles, led public campaigns, traveled the world, and kept Rachel’s story alive through books, plays, films and media outreach.

We sat down with them recently to talk about the changes they’ve seen.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/15/the-corries-ten-year-quest-for-justice/