MAN SAYS ACTIVIST WAS BRAVE IN GAZA
MADISONIAN KNEW WOMAN SLAIN BY ISRAELI BULLDOZER
Samara Kalk Derby, The Capital Times, March 17, 2003
Rachel Corrie had put herself between the bulldozer and Palestinians' homes many times. Sunday, the bulldozer won.
The 23-year-old activist, a college student from Olympia, Wash., was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer during a house demolition in Rafah, next to Egypt, in southern Gaza.
Ben Granby, a Madison native who spent three months in Gaza City last year, met Corrie two weeks ago when he went back to Gaza to visit friends.
While he had only spent time with Corrie while she "was under fire," he called her "very daring, very brave, very strong-minded and very committed." She was also kind, he said, and spent her days working with schoolchildren.
Granby, who recently spent five weeks living in Iraq, went to visit Gaza two weeks ago before returning to Madison. It was then that he went to Rafah, and spent some time with the International Solidarity Movement. Corrie was one of eight members of that group in Rafah, protesting the Israeli government's bulldozing of Palestinian homes.
