Rachel Corrie's Sory of Standing Up to an Israeli Bulldozer


	Rachel Corrie's Sory of Standing Up to an Israeli Bulldozer

papananook

1-19-2008 4:12 PM

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papananook says:

Check out the video of the song....a very sad yet inspirational story of a 23-yr-old American woman who died defending Palestinians being pushed off their homes. Israeli Apartheid is an ugly secret not given much play in American Media, for obvious reasons.

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