We Will Always be Inspired by Rachel Corrie

I'm sorry I didn't know this rare woman who is a hero and a martyr of the highest sense.

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(SALEM) - As a little girl, Rachel Corrie talked about how she wanted to help people on this planet avoid suffering. She was killed in 2003 on the border of Gaza at Rafah, by a bulldozer operator who was found innocent this week in Israel in a case filed by Rachel's parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie.

Venomous comments have been left on our stories, claiming that Rachel had 'no business' helping the Palestinians. These comments are left by people with Israeli IP addresses and it amazes me that her death does not reach them through the spirit of humanity.

She was wearing safety equipment, she was communicating with the Israeli bulldozer operator with a loud bullhorn, but Israel says her death is her own fault.

It was barely over 65 years ago when the Jewish people were being slaughtered by Hitler and the Third Reich. Not just Germany, but Italy and Spain and other European nations backed the Nazi war machine.

It is very hard to understand why the political leaders of this culture believe the death of a human being resisting their own apartheid politics would not matter.

A serious void of humanity exists in Israel, where the radical Zionist culture believes it is entitled to land, and we're talking about Palestine... that belongs to somebody else. It is fortunate that so many in Israel are fighting on the right side, even if U.S. media never reveals that fact to its viewers.

Americans reading this, know that your interests in this world were carried by Rachel Corrie; she was pure and brave and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for another human being. There was no agenda, there was no motive.... just a desire for peace and for people to be treated fairly. If this is truly not something to respect, then we as the human race are no longer respectable.

I'm sorry I didn't know this rare woman who is a hero and a martyr of the highest sense.

Music by Slowdive for Rachel Corrie and Gaza

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Tim King has more than twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. Tim is Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. His background includes covering the war in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, and reporting from the Iraq war in 2008. Tim is a former U.S. Marine who follows stories of Marines and Marine Veterans; he's covered British Royal Marines and in Iraq, Tim embedded with the same unit he served with in the 1980's.

Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing from traditional mainstream news agencies like The Associated Press and Electronic Media Association; he also holds awards from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists, the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs; and was presented with a 'Good Neighbor Award' for his reporting, by the The Red Cross.

Tim's years as a Human Rights reporter have taken on many dimensions; he has rallied for a long list of cultures and populations and continues to every day, with a strong and direct concentration on the 2009 Genocide of Tamil Hindus and Christians in Sri Lanka. As a result of his long list of reports exposing war crimes against Tamil people, Tim was invited to be the keynote speaker at the FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) Conference in Baltimore, in July 2012. This is the largest annual gathering of North American Tamils; Tim addressed more than 3000 people and was presented with a traditional Sri Lanka ‘blessed garland’ and a shawl as per the tradition and custom of Tamil Nadu

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