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This website is part of our efforts at Austin Coalition for Gaza to raise awareness about the heinous crimes being committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces against Gaza's entire population, and also to mobilize the public to speak out against this. You will find a number of useful resources within the site; please check them out, spread the word, and join us!
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Below is an excerpt from Rachel Corrie's letter to her parents in 2003, where she describes what Israel was doing to Gaza's people then, and is doing at a larger scale now. Rachel Corrie was a 23 year-old college student from Olympia, WA, who went to Gaza as a peace and human rights activist. She was deliberately crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family's home.
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"...Just want to write to my Mom and tell her that I'm witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I'm really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world. This is not at all what the people here asked for when they came into this world...So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible."
Click here to read Rachel's letters to her parents (e-mailed from Gaza)
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