Joseph Smith, aka Joseph Carr, has in his capacity of International Solidarity Movement leader been with not one but two I.S.M. members just minutes before their deaths. The most famous death, that of 23 year old Rachel Corrie, has been a key ingredient in his personal success and the exposure and recruitment efforts for the I.S.M.
It has been reported that both Smith and the Palestinian doctor who worked on Corrie changed their stories several times regarding what happened to the girl, what the extent of her injuries were and when exactly she expired. In the videos below Lee Kaplan covers much of this troubling information on the talk show Club Cruz and includes a clip provided by Israeli security of Corrie just before her death.
Smith has stated several times Corrie was animatedly trying to get the attention of the drivers. In the clip I saw it looked like Corrie was barely moving. After she was struck by the bulldozer several I.S.M. activist run out of the shadows toward her, as if they were simply watching the events unfold.
Watch all three videos and decide for yourselves. It certainly looks to me like Corrie was set up at the very least, if she was alive when the bulldozer hit her in the first place.
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Part II
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Part III
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The mysterious Mr. Smith/Carr is thought to draw a paycheck from a terror supporting organization from the U.A.E.:
A call to the Christian Peacemakers Teams and a conversation with an office manager named Zoe revealed he is no longer employed by them although not by their choice. Carr himself stated on the phone he is employed by “the ISM-USA and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.” ISM-USA is not an organization that is listed as a non-profit or for profit entity. In other words, if someone were to pay him and give him a pay stub or a 1099 form as an independent contractor, the ISM-USA would need to be a legitimate business that handles normal taxable payroll contributions – they aren’t. The ISM is a smokescreen for various PLO anti-Israel and pro-Ba’ath Party groups in Iraq that relies on a few non-profits in the US (like the Middle East Children’s Alliance in California and Brecht Forum in New York) to launder and disperse funds to its subgroups. Is Joseph Smith/Carr being paid in cash?
Again we have to ask how does he survive and travel around the US as a “performance artist and poet” in support not only of the PLO but the “Iraqi resistance” as well? While the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation does say on its website it is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, calls to the IRS failed to get any confirmation that it indeed is one. The Washington D.C. attorney general in charge of consumer and charitable fraud may be interested to know it isn’t. Calls to the office number listed also went unanswered during business hours. And the website is registered to a principal who resides in the United Arab Emirates named Nadir Ghaith. If the “US Campaign” is being run by a foreign entity or leadership then Smith/Carr, if paid by them, needs to register as a foreign agent by US law.
Smith cut his teeth in radical groups like Earth First! and seems to be carrying on in their radical tradition. The question remains though on just how radical Smith is. In his mind is his cause, and perhaps the money he receives for his activities, worth the lives of people who trust him?
Were Smith to have been in the United States with two people who both were killed in strange accidents which resulted from them participating in some sort dangerous activity, I dare say Mr.Smith would need a lawyer. Once he was caught changing his story and badly photoshopping pictures, he’d probably end up in jail, where in my opinion he belongs.
But Smith has gone abroad to kill in the name of his pet projects. And that is what he’s done, killed Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall whether by his own hand or by his direction.We’ll never know the whole truth about Corrie’s death, but we do know that Smith is lying about it, and that should raise questions for us all.
h/t Israpundit
There is no evidence that Smith or any other ISM member did anything deliberate (“act of comission”) to cause Rachel Corrie’s death, but their acts of omission–none even claim to have raised a finger to pull her out of the bulldozer’s path–do not speak very highly of them. Furthermore, the ISM says that Corrie was “murdered,” and it is a very bad idea to use the word “murder” when your own people have expressed motives for wanting the deceased person dead.
From Joseph Smith’s own Web site: “The spirit that she died for is worth a life. This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for it all the time. So the life of one international, I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting oppression.”
http://www.freepalestinecampaign.org/Stranger%20article.htm
Also, George Rishwami says this http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85
“Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement, George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle that the recruitment of American student volunteers is useful to the Palestinian Movement because “if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.””
When you are more useful to your friends dead than alive, it is time to find new friends. Rachel Corrie never got a chance to learn this.
Rachel Corrie was some spoiled rich kid coffee house revolutionary who was a useful idiot for the ISM and the PLO. What a waste of a life, to be a pawn for terrorists in their propaganda war. Worse are her parents who now make a living running around doing propaganda for the PLO who used and killed her.