Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: the Rachel Corrie nobody will talk about

Today a man who came to work in peace, to help realize the dream of an
egalitarian socialist society, or perhaps just to have a new
experience, was murdered by Arab snipers. His death was hardly
noticed, it seems.
A few years ago Rachel Corrie came to Israel to defend terrorists from
"Zionist aggressors." She was killed by accident while trying to stop
a bulldozer from destroying a building used for smuggling or terror
attacks. Her death was trumpeted all over the world as an example of
Zionist mentality. We know who she is and what she looked like and why
she claimed to have come to Israel. We knew all about her views of the
oppressive and evil Zionists.
Today's victim was a righteous victim. He was murdered while planting
potato seeds on a communal farm insider Israel. Carlos Chavez was not
a reactionary imperialist warmonger illegal settler messianic fanatic
- just a man growing food in a communal farm. For whatever reasons, he
was planting potato seeds, not seeds of hatred.
For idealistic or frivolous or random reasons, Carlos Chavez came here
to help us and be with us, and he paid for it with his life. It is
wrong perhaps to ape the path of exploitation of his death for
incitement and demonification as Rachel Corrie's "supporters" did.
Perhaps there should be no demonstrations about Carlos, and perhaps
there should not be any plays about Carlos. Perhaps Carlos was just a
fellow looking for an interesting way to spend a few months of his
life. Perhaps that is not as praiseworthy as the ideal of helping
terrorists. But at least, we should honor our friend who came in peace
and died in our war.
I do not know enough about Carlos Chavez from Quito Ecuador to tell
you much about him, because the media do not tell us much - why he
came, who he was, or what he was like. Most journals did not bother to
show a picture of him, and the one that appears in Jerusalem Post is a
bad joke.
Here is what we know of his story:
Ecuadorian volunteer Carlos Chavez, 21, was killed when a Palestinian
sniper fired from the border area into Israel.
Chavez had been working in a potato field near the kibbutz border
fence, Ein Hashlosha's security chief said. He was hit in the back and
taken by his friends to the kibbutz infirmary.
A Magen David Adom ambulance arrived on the scene shortly after, but
paramedics were unable to resuscitate him...
Yochai Kopler, a potato grower who worked with Chavez, said "sniper
and mortar fire opened up. We didn't have luck this time, as we did
the other times. Every day they shoot at us, and we run away like
rabbits."
"It's tough for us to receive news like this," said Annie Rotman, who
is responsible for the kibbutz's volunteers.
She said that Chavez came to the kibbutz two months ago. "Only
yesterday, we spoke with him, laughed with him."
"Everyone here is afraid," she said. "The volunteers do the work, and
when there is shooting, they go into hysteria. We are finding it
difficult to digest what has happened."
David Lanos, 19, also a volunteer on the kibbutz, said the sniper fire
came as they were preparing to plant potato seeds. "I told him, 'Sit
down, they're shooting at us.' We managed to hide behind a car. When
he stood up to get into it, he was hit in the back."
Lanos then told Chavez not to go to sleep. "He answered 'I'm not
able,' and then I lost him."
Rest in peace, dear friend. I am sorry that I haven't a fancy bouquet
to offer in your memory, only a few daisies I found in the path.
Ami Isseroff
http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000479.html

 Ami Isseroff
non era Amisrael Chai? :D