Dear friends, I fear that this will be another Israel-bashing event while a whitewash of Palestinian violence. The ISM seems blind to the violence and incitement occurring under their noses. The PA is corrupt, having pocketed billions in aid meant for the poverty-stricken Palestinians, but the ISM continually targets Israel as "the bad guy." They are obviously trying to protect their population from unending attacks. Note also that "honor killings" of women and lynchings of "collaborators" is a common occurrance in the Palestinian areas, but unknown in Israel. Why does no ISM member make mention of these facts? Rachel Corrie (and I read every letter she wrote home) did not even MENTION the suicide bomber attacks against Israeli civilians OR the tunnels under the Gaza fence the IDF was bulldozing at the time of her accidental death.

The ISM also disingenuously posted photos of Rachel Corrie seemingly taken seconds apart (the first with Rachel holding a bullhorn and wearing a bright orange vest & the second of her crushed body) when the photos were taken hours apart.

By exclusively focusing on IDF violence without any comment on the continuous and unchecked violence committed by Hamas, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad, the PLO, the PFLP, Fatah, and other violent groups dedicated to killing Jews and ridding the entire mideast of any Jewish nation, no matter how small, the ISM presents a distorted and ulimately false image of the actual situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Look at the death stats. If the IDF were "targeting civilians" as the ISM claims, why are only 2.8% of the Palestinian dead women? Compare that with 25% of the Israeli deaths women. Does the IDF only "shoot into windows" where men are? Does the IDF only "shoot into crowds" of men and only at men who are "walking to school"?

Wake up and smell the coffee my fellow leftists. Backing the Palestinian cause at this point in time is the very opposite of promoting peace. The conflict is not about "the Israeli occupation" but whether Israel has a right to exist at all in the mideast as a Jewish state.