Rachel's Song - A Poem Tribute To Rachel Corrie

[rachelgolem]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Caterpillar Inc. said Wednesday it plans to build a factory for large wheel loaders in China.

The Peoria, Ill. company said the factory on China's east coast will develop a new model of wheel loader for use in China and other developing countries. Caterpillar didn't say how much it would spend on the new factory or an accompanying research and development facility.

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

No, she is not a hero. She is just a stupid girl who understands nothing about how she was fooled by Arab-Nazi propaganda, and a sleepy mainstream media who does not do its job properly and tells just part of the story. She is victim of Arab propaganda, who gladly and shamefully uses her to promote their justification of further attacking of Israel in order to destroy it. --I know already what responses I will get on my comment: so- provocative hateful -liars kiss your own asses!

[bgd360]

Didn't Rachel Corrie realize that Hamas would have her hanged for her lesbian homosexuality. Why would she want to help those that would readily throw her away like so much garbage?

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@bgd360 It's really, really HELPFUL when people start making comments that prove that they know absolute NOTHING on the subject!

And I'm an IDIOT for wasting my time to reply to you.

Hamas would NEVER "have hanged [Rachel] for her lesbian homosexuality" for the simple reason that Rachel wasn't homosexual. Some of my best friends are lesbians, so I don't mean this as a way of DEFENDING Rachel's reputation. If she HAD been a lesbian, I wouldn't have seen that as anything negative.

[bgd360]

@jimmsfairytales0com Well, you're right, Hamas wouldn't have hanged her so long as she was being a useful idiot (as they say). The second Israel disappears and Hamas rules the region, Rachel would be swinging from a rope. You see, there's no room in Islam for lesbian homosexuality. Can't you see that? Hello??

[endthedrugwarvision]

@jimmsfairytales0com bgd360 is making a good point. And Rachel as an activist I hope would have been glad to 'listen'.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@bgd360 (Part 2)

If Rachel HAD been a lesbian, I wouldn't have seen that as anything negative.

But you obviously DO see homosexuality as negative, and therefore are trying to use a LIE to disgrace the name of somebody of whom you know - as I wrote before - absolutely NOTHING.

Where do you get your lies?

Do you make them up yourself or are they passed on to you from that Israeli Gov't agency that PAYS bloggers like you to defend their policies all over Internet?

A question: How MUCH do they pay?

[bgd360]

@jimmsfairytales0com Dude, you've got me all wrong. I think lesbians are terrific! Especially the hot porn star types - HOLY!! Anyway, I'm just a voice in the wilderness with a thinking head on my shoulders. So no, I'm not being paid (lol!)(unbelievable!) to post my opinions on YouTube.

Here's what I don't understand: the alliance between the Left wing (who are supposed to stand for human rights and values) and Conservative Islamists (who barely believe in any human rights) is baffling.

[endthedrugwarvision]

@jimmsfairytales0com IsRaEl doesn't have to pay anyone to be as stupid as activists are bro. The activists community gets women bulldozed and does nothing but that. It's sad.

[rachelgolem]

One day, I am going to try to stop a bulldozer with my face!!!!

[Jasob767]

Let's be sure to ignore the anti Palestinian Apartheid policies in Lebanon and Jordan.

[rachelgolem]

If we could just get all the college students to stop buying bulldozers and large diesel engines from Caterpillar...................­........ gee, that makes no sense, like the rest of your movement.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@rachelgolem

So, working for Peace ["the rest of your movement"] "makes no sense" to you?

At least you're honest enough to admit that.

I'll admit that, for many who share your opinions, it makes a lot more sense to feed the flames of war, hatred, bigotry, and prejudice. After all, there's BIG money to be made in arms sales.

As for your comment on "college students... stop buying Caterpillar... makes no sense" SURELY - as a well-informed person - you're aware of the news???

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@rachelgolem (continued)

The news being that Caterpillar HAS stopped selling bulldozers to the Israeli Army! Largely because of ever-increasing US public (including your scorned college students) outrage at what those bulldozers are doing in Palestine.

I'll admit that the sales stoppage is [SO FAR] only temporary (while Caterpillar waits to see the outcome of the Corrie family's civil suit vs. the Israeli Govt.) but it shows that boycotts - as in S. Africa - DO affect big business policies.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@rachelgolem and EVERYBODY else of like mind:

Lay aside political differences just for 3 minutes!

This really isn't about taking sides.

Just IMAGINE that it was YOUR sister or daughter crushed to death by an army bulldozer.

How would YOU feel about a Justice system that REFUSED to hold a full and fair inquiry???

How would YOU feel if your family dedicated most of its time for SEVEN YEARS even to be able to bring a CIVIL case - any other form of Justice being denied them???

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@rachelgolem and EVERYBODY else of like mind (continued):

Just IMAGINE that it was YOUR sister or daughter who went to another country on a peace mission and was killed by the army of that country.

How would YOU feel about a colonel in that country who declared (during the afore-mentioned civil case) “There are no civilians in war zones.” [This means basically that EVERYBODY who happens to be living within an area where two armies decide to carry out their hostilities is a COMBATANT.]

!!!!!

[rachelgolem]

@jimmsfairytales0com

Rachel Corrie was practicing non-violence as taught by Yasser Arafat.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@rachelgolem

I paraphrase what I answered to another:

WHO are you allowing to do your thinking and form your opinions for you???

Did you ever MEET Rachel?

I invite you to read (and TRY to read it with an open mind) her book, "Let Me Stand Alone". If you are then still of the opinion that she was a racist, an ignorant dupe... or motivated by something other than a very firm and heartfelt humanity, I will be willing to continue this debate.

Until then, I doubt your qualifications to do so.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@rachelgolem

You seem to be practicing the expression of personal opinions as taught by Josef Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for [...] the truth is the greatest enemy of the State"

[rachelgolem]

@jimmsfairytales0com

We are really worried about the truth. We are worried that if the world discovers the truth, Americans will all convert to Islam and the Europeans will send the children they DON'T HAVE to "Liberate Palestine".

Do you speak to anyone who has a job?

[rachelgolem]

@jimmsfairytales0com

You can throw around as many Goebbels quotes as you want.

In a few months a war will start in Iraq and millions of Iraqis will kill each other. Hopefully the Catholics will get out in time. The whole world will see just how peaceful Islam really is. I know you are going to say this is the fault of Jewish Republicans. If it is, I am proud of it.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

PUBLIC STATEMENT

To the no-brained BIGOTS who call me (and Rachel) "anti-semitic", "Nazi", "pro-terrorist", etc. etc.:

I subscribe to "Jewish Voice For Peace" (Google that or type it all out in small letters without spacing and add ".org")

It REALLY is ironic (don't you think?) that those of us who MOST want Peace and reject ALL forms of violence (including and ESPECIALLY State Violence) are called "Nazis" by hate-filled pseudo-, crypto- or neo-Nazis who sputter violence and hatred non-stop!

[Jasob767]

For a thousand years Jews were forced to put up with racist pigs like Rachel Corrie. We put up with ethnic cleansing, mass murder occupation and humiliation. Jews fight back now! Better get used to it! Being bulldozed to death is a fitting end to this young Nazi who would deny Jews their basic human rights! I can only cry when thinking about all the Jewish children murdered by the people she wanted to help. What in the world did those children do to her 

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767 Did you ever MEET Rachel? How do you know that she was a "racist... young Nazi who would deny Jews their basic human rights!"

What in the world did she do to YOU???

You base your vicious, bigotted, vitriolic statements on a propaganda machine that tells you that ANYBODY who works for Human Rights in Palestine is pro-terrorist!

Do you actually have a brain? Then WHY don't you use it, instead of letting others (hate-filled or with vested interests) do your thinking for you?!!!

[Jasob767]

@jimmsfairytales0com Rachel Corrie was a racist! Just as all those who supported the Nazi cause were racists, those who support the "Palestinian" cause are racist.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767 ("Rachel Corrie was a racist!")

Tell me: are you really proud to display your complete IGNORANCE for everybody to see?!

I have read whatever I can find written by Rachel Corrie (including the book "Let Me Stand Alone", which includes excerps from her diaries from the time she was 12 years old.) There is NOTHING in all I read that shows the SLIGHTEST suspicion of racism. It shows a young woman full of concern for her World and EVERYBODY in it.

I can't say the same about your comments

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767 ("Just as all those who supported the Nazi cause were racists, those who support the "Palestinian" cause are racist.")

Ironically - and, to me, TRAGICLY - those former sufferers under Nazism who are determined to deny the Palestinians their BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS are MUCH more akin to their former oppressors (the Nazis) than those they falsely accuse of "racism", "anti-semitism", "Nazism", etc. etc. etc.

Look in the mirror.

Who do you see?

You have become

your own worst enemy.

[Jasob767]

@jimmsfairytales0com 97% of anti Zionists are actually just Jew haters. You, I must admit, may be among the other 3% who may just be gullible. Are you? Is it possible the people in this conflict (Israel) who have the free press, free speech, equality for women, gays,racial minorities, a modern democracy, courts of law, free health care for all.....are really the bad guys?

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767

It wouldn't harm you to get facts straight. Jewish Voice For Peace has members who are Zionist and others who are anti-Zionist. What all share is a conviction that Palestinians ALSO have rights... and that there will be no real peace until Israel accepts (and RESPECTS) this fact.

Does Israel's "free health care for all" include the idea of holding up people on their (URGENT) way to the doctor's at checkpoints in the hot sun for HOURS?

Or does "all" mean something different to you?

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767

I try to keep an open mind. I read opinions on both sides. And (you may notice) I don't erase negative comments from this thread - EVEN when they are abusive and/or ill-informed.

Several (Jewish) Israeli citizens have refused to serve IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. They have no objection to military service TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY but they have gone to jail rather than support an UNJUST occupation.

Several Israeli actors have REFUSED to perform in the Occupied Territories.

Ask why.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767

Going back to your: "Rachel Corrie was a racist!"...

WHO are you allowing to do your thinking and form your opinions for you???

I repeat: Did you ever MEET Rachel?

I invite you to read (and TRY to read it with an open mind) her book, "Let Me Stand Alone". If you are then still of the opinion that she was a racist... or motivated by something other than a very firm and heartfelt humanity, I will be willing to continue this debate.

Until then, I doubt your qualifications to do so.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767 ("... those who support the "Palestinian" cause are racist.")

Interestingly, I have NEVER - on demonstrations, peace picnics, multi-cultural activities, university student societies - come across ANY Palestinians who were motivated by hate. (I guess that I've been lucky, because I'm sure that SOME of them must be.) They have been full of SADNESS - even anger - and wishes for a peaceful solution. But I have witnessed several examples of Jews blinded by hate and wishes for VENGEANCE!!!

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Jasob767 ("For a thousand years Jews were forced to put up with [...]")

So - according to you - that gives you the right to behave in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY!!! ("Jews fight back now! Better get used to it!") [Better get used to the idea that THE BOOT'S ON THE OTHER FOOT NOW, and we're going to stomp all over you.]

Is that REALLY your solution to the World's - or even the Jews' - problems???

Haven't you learned ANYTHING in those thousand years???

I WEEP for you... and for all who you hurt.

[Zionist18inshallah]

makes me vomit to see the waste of such a young woman tricked by Jihadist to become a shaheed and serve as a poster child for Islamic terrorist.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Zionist18inshallah

An interesting comment to make just a few days after Israeli state terrorists attacked a flotilla of ships carrying aid to a beleaguered Gaza! They killed 9 people who only wanted to help those in need. But I suppose (to be cont.)

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@Zionist18inshallah (...cont.)

...that your Zionist brainwashing insists that you believe that the whole flotilla was a load of terrorists!

And now the MV Rachel Corrie heads for Gaza!

[FantomasXZ7]

I HAVE NO DOUBTS ANYMORE: ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST NEONAZI STATE!!! MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY FOR RACHEL CORRIE'S FAMILY AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

[Namaste1001]

We can all help by donating at freegaza org.

[CaligirlSofia]

@Namaste1001

how exactly does that help?

[Namaste1001]

@CaligirlSofia look at the site and all will be explained.

[budfish41]

Pancake memorial breakfast in Honor of this Anti-American born in America at an I-Hop near you this Saturday!

[jimmsfairytales0com]

If you think that it's anti-American to fight Injustice, then you're pathetic.

If you think that it's PATRIOTIC to stand by without criticising while your country helps others to stomp on the weak...

SORRY! Of COURSE! You DO criticise: You criticise those being stomped on... and those who go to their aid.

If THAT has become the standard of what it means to be American, then you can count me, as well, as an anti-American.

If you think that your stale pancake joke is funny, then you ARE pathetic!

[CaligirlSofia]

@budfish41

so supporting palestinians is anti american? wtf? u have been so brainwashed u think Israel is america or something, ur willing to risk everything even the safety of ur people and country for Israel who does NOTHING for u guys

[budfish41]

@CaligirlSofia

Did I say I liked what Israel does? Nope...Pals and Israeli's will both go on killing and hating each other for years to come - I don't think much of either. What I CANNOT STAND is Rachael Corrie's BS. White people do that way too much - get over-involved in other's causes (and yeah I'm white) - we're so bad for that. Whether she supported Pals or Israelis would have irritated me...

PS - I looked at your profile and you're pretty!

[CaligirlSofia]

@budfish41

yes they will but pals didnt start this, Israel did we they took their country away and than deported them and than restricted them practically imprisoning them in gaza, Rachel just has a heart, u would cry if u saw what happens to pals kids, aww thank u lol:)

[budfish41]

@CaligirlSofia

So, are the pals in the right on this? Tell me your side because I'd really like to hear a more detailed presentation...I see some ways both sides are "right," but don't see either too willing to hold off on the violence. 

[CaligirlSofia]

@budfish41

well im not saying that pals never have done any wrong but they werent the 1st to start this crisis and they are the ones who lost the most and suffer the most, maybe u can message me and i can go into detail? because comments limit me to a certain amount of words

[budfish41]

@CaligirlSofia

OK I'll do that...thanks.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@budfish41

"White people do that way too much - get over-involved in other's causes (and yeah I'm white) - we're so bad for that."

So DON'T get involved in others' causes: keep sitting in front of your computer screen, playing with your [.....] and making offensive comments about people who ARE prepared to risk their safety - even their lives - for others. White people do THAT [the ....ing and criticising] way too much as well. And yeah, you're oh so white.

[peacesher]

Thank you for this post. Rachel is an inspiration to all those who wish for PEACE in the world. <3

[clayclream]

I am far too uneducated to join in this "debate".... but what springs to mind jimmsfairytales0com is.... Don't argue with an idiot (i.e. KAHANEZADAK) they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.....p.s the Troll is obviously left brained

[jimmsfairytales0com]

WARNING: The folowing comment from KAHANEZADAK is the first of several that this TROLL has left on this video. On one of them (s)he says "I have dedicated my life to spreading love and brotherhod..." !!!

I invite ANYBODY to read KAHANEZADAK's profile description-of-self (click on the name in blue above their comment) and decide for yourself if this is someone "dedicated [...] to spreading love and brotherhod".

Then go Google Rachel Corrie, read HER writing, and ask the same question...

[KAHANEZADAK]

Rachel Corrie was a vile terrorist who dedicated her life to fighting Born-Again Christians. She was being investigated by no less than three governmental agencies in two different countries. She hated America and was recorded as stating so on at least two occasions. Her type of prejudice and love of violence made the world a more dangerous place. As the world became safer after Hitler and Stalin went the way of all flesh, so too did the world become more peaceful after she breathed no more.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@ KAHANEZADAK:

(Well, I've been waiting for the trolls to show up!

As administrator of this video, I have the power to delete your message, but I believe in free speech - even for liars and hate-filled trolls.

I have read rachel's writing extensively and nowhere find that she "hated America". It's true that she was ASHAMED of her country for supporting the terrorist tactics of the Israeli Army, and felt GUILTY that her taxes`were helping to pay for US-backed INJUSTICES all over the World.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@ KAHANEZADAK:

How can you hate a country where your parents, your sister, your brother, ALL the people you hold most dear, live???

It is just SO obvious that your intention is to spread groundless, stupid, and VICIOUS LIES!

[KAHANEZADAK]

So you are saying that in addition to being evil, she was also a psychopath and/or a sociopath? That, also quite possibly true, should only be concluded by an individual with appropriate training. You, clearly, are not possessed of same.

[KAHANEZADAK]

Despite your lack of education and truly warped sense of justice, I can say that your belief in the free exchange of ideas is commendable. Although unlikely, you may yet learn to think independently and not become just another robot of the left. Whether or not she was ashamed of being an American, SHE HAD NO RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MURDER OF AMERICANS.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

OK, KAHANEZADAK : I publicly challenge you to back up your stupid and vile accusations with hard evidence. These comment boxes are too short. So go to my profile page and leave a message in my comment section, demonstrating EXACTLY how Rachel Corrie "PARTICIPATE[D] IN THE MURDER OF AMERICANS" or "hated America".

I am willing to listen... And if you can convince me that this is true, I WILL REMOVE THIS VIDEO!

Internet evidence accepted, as long as it comes from unbiased sources.

DO IT!

[peacenutbutter]

YEAH! KAHANEZADAK, show us just HOW Rachel was a terrorist - or even "pro-terrorism" - WITHOUT depending on the Lie Factories who are dedicated to besmirching her name. I'll be keeping an eye on that comment section, should be interesting... might even join in the debate myself.

p.s. you accuse the author of this video of "lack of education and truly warped sense of justice". Have you noticed that he has answered comments in 3 languages?! And learned to make videos in ONE DAY?!

UNEDUCATED?!

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@ KAHANEZADAK :

So, "She was being investigated by no less than three governmental agencies in two different countries." I can well believe THAT. And I'd bet my bottom dollar that one of those agencies was the filthy MOSSAD - who have been known to kidnap people in OTHER countries for DARING to criticise Israeli govt. policies... and are probably investigating ME, for writing a few poems about Rachel!!!

And I'm pretty sure that the other country you mention was her own, the USA (under BUSH!!!)

[KAHANEZADAK]

While I do not work for the Mossad, it is highly doubtfuk that those heroic fighters for freedom and against hatred would expend much time or energy on one so ill-educated an unsophisticated as you clearly are. You have an over-blown sense of self-importance. I suggest counseling.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@KAHANEZADAK ("Mossad [...] those heroic fighters for freedom")

Oh, THOSE heroic fighters for freedom!!!

The ones who broke international diplomacy by kidnapping Mordechai Vanunu in Italy, drugging him & smuggling him to Israel for trial on charges of treason. His "crime"? He just told the world that Israel was producing nuclear weapons... and was imprisoned for 18 years including more than 11 years in solitary confinement!

Oh THOSE "heroic fighters for freedom"!!!

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@ KAHANEZADAK:

As to "Her type of prejudice and love of violence made the world a more dangerous place."...

This is one of the biggest loads of CRAP that it has EVER been my pleasure to read!

It would be about on the same level of Hitler making the same statement about Anne Frank...

Only Hitler - although evil - wasn't STUPID enough to say anything like that.

You apparently are (or perhaps you're a pretty nice person, but just incredibly ill-informed!)

[peacenutbutter]

@ KAHANEZADAK:

You're a FINE one to use words like "vile", "terrorist", "hated", "prejudice", and "love of violence"!!!

I have read your profile and it is FULL of bigotry, HATE, and calls to violence ("IF ONE COMES TO SLAY YOU, RISE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SLAY HIM FIRST." THAT IS BAD HINDUISM, BUT GOOD JUDAISM.)

And your tactic of saying that Rachel "DEDICATED her life to fighting Born-Again Christians" would be oh-so-clever (get the B-A Cs on your side) if it weren't a PACK OF LIES!

[KAHANEZADAK]

I have never raised a weapon or a fist to any individual who did not pose a threat to me or to those I am sworn to protect. I do worlk with Believing Christians on many issues. I find them - in general - to be good Americans and good people. You calling my true statements lies does not make them lies. There were many like you of Teutonic nature in WWII. I have dedicated my life to spreading love and brotherhod and sisterhood and fighting your type of prejudice.

[peacesher]

So it is prejudiced to write a poem about a peacemaker and post it?

[KAHANEZADAK]

Write a poem about whomever you wish. Post it any place you desire. From a point of view of peace and love (I know; I spend my life spreading truth and peace and love), writing in a positive light about Stalin or Arafat or Corrie or Lon Nol or Hitler tells me something about the poet.

[haithemelzabri]

@KAHANEZADAK

LOL! and your comment tells us a lot about you!! (ignorant, biased, cruel..)

[WhyIsSheStaringAtMe]

This video has caused me to look up "Rachel Corrie" on Google. What a sad story! What a waste!

[jimmsfairytales0com]

@ tastimomolt:

Moltes grAcies! (Em trobo amb un teclat que no permet accents, ho sento).

Era el meu propOsit: de fer recordar-la (i fer pensar-hi els que encara no en saben res). Ja fa mEs de 6 anys i encara no s'ha fet justIcia...

It's been over 6 years, and still justice hasn't been done...

[AffairWthGravity]

Absolutely wonderful my dear. I thoroughly enjoyed it. :)

[cinefilo56]

Muy interesante. No conocía este poema.

Gracias, un saludo.

[jimmsfairytales0com]

El poema lo escribí yo. Si lees "more info", arriba a la derecha, puedes cliquear sobre un enlace que te lleva al ciclo entero de poemas en homenaje a Rachel.

[SarkyAsHell]

So, the first video you ever made?!

Hats off to you! Good job!

(This is MY first comment on YouTube, and I'm NOT going to live up to my name.)

My only criticisms / advice: - that final shot with the web-sites, a bit difficult to read, blue on purple.

- much of the text included in the video was also difficult to read, either disappeared too fast or wasn't very visible against the background. I had to "pause"

- you should've"signed" your name to the poem in the video (credits)

Still: 5*

[jimmsfairytales0com]

Thanks!

I've got another criticism: the audio. It sounds like I was blowing into the mike.